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Big hit on a small scale for black-eyed peas

What have Black-eyed peas got to do with nanotechnology? As well as sharing their name with a chart-topping U.S. band, Black-eyed peas (also known as Cowpeas) are being used by scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich to grow virus particles that can be decorated with a chemical turning the particles into a kind of molecular capacitor.