MIDDLEBURY — Have you ever wondered why the wires in your cell phone are so big and inefficient? No?
Well, it’s something that Middlebury College chemistry student Peter Dykeman-Bermingham has thought about. A lot.
That’s why he’s spent the entire summer tinkering with chemical equations to create synthetic wires that could solve that very problem, and why, this past Thursday, July 27, Dykeman-Bermingham’s work was one of 40 research projects that were on display at Middlebury’s annual Summer Research Symposium.
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