Florissant diatoms in the news
Posted By The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc. on May 14, 2009
University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral candidate Mary Ellen Benson’s research is in the news at Boulder’s Nanomaterials Characterization Facility.
Diatoms may someday play a role in microelectronics and other nanotechnological devices by growing nano-scale structures. The trick is getting the diatoms, a type of microscopic algae, to build the right structures.
Read more about Benson’s research on the fossil diatoms of Florissant and how researchers may use diatoms for nanotechnological applications in Dan Ray’s article, Nanotechnology in Nature: Ancient Algae Hints at Earth’s Past, Nanotechnology’s Future.
More on Mary Ellen Benson’s research…
-Melissa Barton
Photo: Modern marine diatoms (Photo Credit: Prof. Gordon T. Taylor, Stony Brook University, USA)
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