Micro-Organisms May be Turned into Nano-Circuitry

Micro-organisms commonly found floating in oceans might someday be reborn as components in incredibly complex computer circuits. The single-celled algae, called diatoms, live in water and assemble a shell, or frustule, of silica by converting nutrients and light. They can adopt an incredible diversity of shapes — from simple geometric structures like triangles and squares to extremely complex 3D constructs with thousands of individual pores