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Viruses Engineered to Construct Batteries

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the living-lightning dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at MIT have modified the M13 virus to create very small batteries. With the viruses building wires 6 nanometers in diameter, the research team hopes to 'build batteries that range from the size of a grain of rice up to the size of existing hearing-aid batteries.'"

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  1. Dynamic ICs by AnalystX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm more interested in dynamic processors. I wonder how long it would take for a virus to complete in hardware what Transmeta does in software.

  2. Amusing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But how much power would the 'rice grain battery' put out?