DNA to revolutionise battery manufacturing
Posted By: Zodingliani Chinzah | Apr 10 2006
A research team led Angela Belcher, a biological engineer at MIT discovered an innovative method to transform battery manufacturing.
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By introducing scraps of single-stranded DNA into the tube-shaped viruses specific molecules were regenerated on their outer coating that attach to cobalt ions and gold particles which turns the virus into a 10-centimetre-long anode sheets an idyllic channel for electrons to generate current. Once work is completed these nanowires could be used to make revolutionary new forms of lithium-ion batteries.
