Viruses Engineered to Construct Batteries 127
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.'"
Dynamic ICs (Score:3, Interesting)
Amusing (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Lemme see here.. (Score:1, Interesting)
Animal to Computer Virus? (Score:2, Interesting)
Yahoo article misses a point, see original paper (Score:2, Interesting)
You do not need to use viruses to produce small batteries, you need them to improve small batteries.
Re:Amusing (Score:3, Interesting)
If these machines can be "manufactured" in sufficiently large numbers, perhaps by some self-assembly process, then you have the power source for a swarm of robot ants or termites, which collectively have the power to transform things on a larger scale.