Clipped from: Viruses Are Building Batteries!
| Viruses Are Building Batteries! | |||
|
| ||
Clipped from: MIT Team Use Viruses to Build Nex-Gen Batteries
MIT Team Use Viruses to Build Nex-Gen Batteries
If you think AAAs batteries are small, then consider this: Next-generation batteries may be half the size of a human cell and built with viruses. Now that’s small. MIT says this is the way of the future when it comes to powering tomorrow’s miniature electronic devices.Clipped from: MITEI | Home
MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries
Forget 9-volts, AAs, AAAs, or D batteries: The energy for tomorrow's miniature electronic devices could come from tiny microbatteries about half the size of a human cell and built with viruses. MIT engineers have developed a way to at once create and install such microbatteries by stamping them onto a variety of surfaces. In the image above, tweezers hold the device used to test MIT's new components for the microbatteries. The batteries themselves are too small to be seen.Clipped from: MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries - MIT News Office
MIT news
MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries
Microbatteries could power tomorrow's miniature devices
From left, MIT professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond. The three have authored a paper detailing their virus-based method of creating and installing microbatteries by stamping them onto a variety of surfaces. Photo / Donna Coveney
An array of microbattery electrodes, each only about four micrometers, or millionths of a meter, in diameter. Image courtesy / Belcher Laboratory, MIT
Related:
MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries - MIT News Office
:: MIT ChE :: People in the Department - Faculty - Paula T. Hammond
DMSE - Faculty - Angela Belcher
DMSE - Faculty - Yet-Ming Chiang
MITEI | Let the sun shine
Stamped microbattery electrodes based on self-assembled M13 viruses — PNAS
Microbattery built by viruses - Boing Boing
Engineers work toward cell-sized batteries (8/22/2008)
Researchers use viruses to make microbatteries for mini devices: Scientific American Blog
