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Electrons travel one of two routes in a nanobiohybrid system

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Peanut butter and jelly. Simon and Garfunkel. Semiconductors and bacteria. Some combinations are more durable than others. In recent years, an interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers combines microorganisms with semiconducting nanocrystals known as quantum dots with microorganisms, and microorganisms, and aims to create nanobiohybrid systems that can capture sunlight for complex chemical transformations to apply materials…