Nanoparticles Enhance Light Sensitivity in Eyeless Animals (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Nanoparticles Enhance Light Sensitivity in Eyeless Animals (1 of 4)

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The freshwater polyp Hydra vulgaris, a primitive animal without eyes, a brain, and other organs.. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 25, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Tortiglione at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Milano, Italy, and colleagues was titled, 'Semiconducting polymers are light nanotransducers in eyeless animals.'

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[Credit: Claudia Tortiglione]

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