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Related Website:

http://www.aps.anl.gov/Future/Workshops/Frontier_Science_Using_Soft_Xrays/Sum...

Research Abstract:
A team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered deep in an abandoned iron mine a microbe that produces willowy crystalline structures only nanometers across and longer than most man-made nanostructures.

Related Publications:
C. S. Chan, G. De Stasio et al., “Microbial Polysaccharides Template Assembly of Nanocrystal Fibres,” Science , 303 , 1656, (2004).
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