A new, highly sensitive chemical sensor using organic nanowires (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

A new, highly sensitive chemical sensor using organic nanowires

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Protein nanowires (light green) harvested from Geobacter (background) are sandwiched between electrodes (gold) to form bioelectronic sensor for detection of biomolecules (red). 

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UMass Amherst/Yao lab

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