Engineering the world’s smallest nanocrystal

In the natural world, proteins use the process of biomineralization to incorporate metallic elements into tissues, using it to create diverse materials such as seashells, teeth, and bones. However, the way proteins actually do this is not well understood.

Now, in research published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, scientists from the group of Kam Zhang at the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST) and the group of Jeremy Tame at Yokohama City University in Japan have used an artificially designed protein to create a cadmium chloride nanocrystal—the smallest crystal reported so far, made up of just 19 atoms—sandwiched between two copies of the protein.
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2015/07/engineering...anocrystal


.....nanotech represents a new expanding future for years to come