![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107152834im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Yale Scientists Use Nanotechnology to Fight E. Coli
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August 30, 2007
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria, like the common pathogen E. coli, by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale University researchers in the American Chemical Society journal Langmuir.
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