My Battery Has A Virus!

Sep 03, 2008 0741 hrs IST

Viruses will help make batteries tinier

There has been one rule with batteries that we can't seem to shake--small battery, small life. When we look too the future and see nanotechnology, we also wonder what's going to give the nano-machines their zip. Finally, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have given us the answer--viruses.

MIT Professor Angela Belcher, with colleagues Paula Hammond and Yet-Ming Chiang has engineered the a virus known as M13 to attach itself to semiconductor materials, creating nanowires that can then be used to create the positive terminals (anodes) for the batteries. Once the team narrows down on the material for the negative terminals (cathodes), the batteries can be complete, and the era of the nano-machines will begin! Unless something else gets in the way, of course.


Source: Scientific American



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