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, a marine centric diatom ‘We believe that knowing this genome will help us to figure out how to mimic the processes that diatoms use to construct their very precise structures, and that we can then learn how to create similarly precise structures ourselves’.
As Hamm comments, ‘in diatoms, Nature has solved many of the problems that engineers want to solve.
These are very difficult to make by standard manufacturing techniques, but diatoms make structures like this all the time’.
In addition, subtle but important changes can be induced in diatoms by varying the amount of silica in their environment or changing the water flow.
But these days, diatoms and their exquisite shells are also attracting the attention of nanotechnologists who hope that diatoms will teach them how to make minute structures currently beyond the capabilities of materials scientists.