March 1998
Fungi Fodder?
By Carol Potera
Fungi. They decimate Dutch elm trees and disfigure toe-nails, blacken bread and rot logs. And that's not all. A group of researchers at MIT and Harvard University have now shown that the same culprits can corrode the protective polymer coatings that package and insulate complex integrated circuits. If this work holds up, it may suggest an explanation for the unexpected failures that sometimes plague electronic systems.
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