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of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

About the Mesoscale Engineering Lab

Research Projects: Electronics on Bacterium:

Device Piggyback
A Bacteria/nanoparticle hybrid device is operated by applying a bias of 10V across the bacterial bridge and measuring the device current. Typical current as a function of relative humidity for "up:" (i.e., humidity decreasing) and "down" cycles shows no hysteresis. The increase in current for humidity change from 20% to 2% is 40-fold (after background subtraction). The inset shows two typical bacterial bridges spanning between the electrodes. Source: Angewandte Chemie, 2005, 44, 6668.
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Ravi Saraf

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