Microbial nanowires: Is the subsurface "hardwired"?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Ntarlagiannis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Atekwana, Estella A ^c   Hill, Eric A ^d   Gorby, Yuri ^e  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NANOWIRES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIAL NANOWIRES; MICROBIAL NANOWIRES; MINERAL SURFACES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY;

BACTERIUM; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1;

EID: 35948971384     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030426     Document Type: Article

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