麻省理工学院化学工程教授迈克尔·斯特拉诺解释道：“我们正在思考如何设计植物来代替我们日常使用的东西的功能。”
"We're thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day," explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.
斯特拉诺表示，该技术将来可能用于房间照明，甚至可以将树木改造为自供电路灯。该团队希望未来可以开发此技术的新形式，用于喷洒植物叶片，一次操作，终生有效。
The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps. In the future, the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant's lifetime.
“热浪把电子从毫微管里像挤牙膏一样挤出来，”斯特拉诺解释说。
“The thermal wave squeezes electrons out of the nanotubes like a tube of toothpaste, ” Strano explained.
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