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SCIENCE STUDIO: Nanoparticles in Plants

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  Keith & Russ welcome Hiram Castillo-Michel, a UTEP alum who is currently working at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.  Hiram is using the synchrotron to examine metal nanoparticles that are being taken up by plants and is analyzing how those nanoparticles affect the plants' functions. 

Aired Oct. 12, 2014.

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