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UF researchers use viruses to cure plant disease

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Spraying viruses on plants is the last thing gardeners typically want to do, but University of Florida researchers say that just might be the solution to one of the world’s most persistent plant diseases.

Filed under Environment, Research, Sciences on Friday, August 27, 2004.

New nanotube films have high potential for consumer, military applications

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A team of University of Florida researchers has made transparent and electrically conductive carbon nanotube films using a process highly suitable for industrial production, an advance that suggests new, large-scale applications for the extremely tiny cylinders, and possibly new products such as bendable video screens.

Filed under Engineering, Research, Sciences on Friday, August 27, 2004.