Abstract: A method for producing mixed metal oxide compounds includes the steps of: providing a supply of a metal reducing bacteria; providing a culture medium suitable for growth of the bacteria; providing a first mixed metal oxide phase comprising at least a first and a second metal, at least one of the first and second metal being reducible from a higher to a lower oxidation state by the bacteria; and, combining the bacteria, the culture medium, the first mixed metal oxide, and at least one electron donor in a reactor, wherein the bacteria reduces at least one of the first metal and the second metal from the higher to the lower oxidation state to form a second mixed metal oxide phase.

Abstract: A method for producing mixed metal oxide compounds includes the steps of: providing a supply of a metal reducing bacteria; providing a culture medium suitable for growth of the bacteria; providing a first mixed metal oxide phase comprising at least a first and a second metal, at least one of the first and second metal being reducible from a higher to a lower oxidation state by the bacteria; and, combining the bacteria, the culture medium, the first mixed metal oxide, and at least one electron donor in a reactor, wherein the bacteria reduces at least one of the first metal and the second metal from the higher to the lower oxidation state to form a second mixed metal oxide phase.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing mixed oxide nanoparticles uses thermophilic bacteria cultured with suitable reducible metals in the presence of an electron donor to reduce at least one metal to form mixed oxide nanoparticles. The mixed oxide nanoparticles can have a magnetism greater than magnetite, such as a line width (&Dgr;H) of at least 2,200 Gauss. The magnetic nanoparticles can be used to form improved magnetorheological media, magnetic storage, dry printing and magnetic devices.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for producing mixed oxide nanoparticulates are disclosed. Selected thermophilic bacteria cultured with suitable reducible metals in the presence of an electron donor may be cultured under conditions that reduce at least one metal to form a doped crystal or mixed oxide composition. The bacteria will form nanoparticles outside the cell, allowing easy recovery. Selection of metals depends on the redox potentials of the reducing agents added to the culture. Typically hydrogen or glucose are used as electron donors.

Abstract: A recombinant baculovirus, which produces a recombinant polyhedra made up of a baculovirus polyhedrin (PH), a Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein (CP) and jellyfish Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (GFP), is constructed by introducing a transfer vector carrying a fusion gene encoding a fusion protein in which the PH, the CP and the GFP are directly linked from N-terminal to C-terminal, in sequence, and a wild-type baculovirus into an insect cell, simultaneously, and culturing the cell. This baculovirus transfer vector pColorBtrus is constructed by synthesizing the GFP-coding DNA fragment from plasmid pGFP, the PH gene from wild-type Autographa californica Nucleopolyhedrovirus, and a Cry1Ac gene from plasmid pPN6.