February 3, 2021 03:35 pm GMT
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Nanotech scientists teach spinach how to send emails, detects bombs
According to a new scientific paper from Nature Materials titled, "Nitroaromatic detection and infrared communication from wild-type plants using plant nanobionics"
— Read the restliving spinach plants (Spinacia oleracea) can be engineered to serve as self-powered pre-concentrators and autosamplers of analytes in ambient groundwater and as infrared communication platforms that can send information to a smartphone.
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