an amazing thing in battery

hai .. how are you doing today?

now we are talking about a virus that turns its energy quite unique and beneficial, long story short battery everyday always not far from our life turns out is made from a virus ..
curious?
let's read hehehe

Battery is no stranger to us. The battery is a device that stores electrical-chemical energy and emit energy in the form of electricity. Usually the battery is now always used carbon rod as anode (positive pole of the battery, zinc (Zn) as the cathode (negative pole of the battery) and paste as the electrolyte (conductor), then we know that As with conventional batteries. Batteries of this type has limitations, namely can not compete with gasoline as an energy source because they quickly exhausted.

But recently, an international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to try to make a big leap to overcome the problem of the battery. They harvest the construction talents microscopic viruses (virus M13) to create an ultra-mini battery ultra-long-lived.

By manipulating a few genes, the team consisting of the professors (Angela Belcher, Paula Hammond and Yet Ming Chiang) was able to fool a single-celled organism to grow and divide into the function of electronic devices. Batteries that exist in their shadow until later is the grain size.

In his research, a team of MIT converts genetic information virus envelope protein that collect molecules of cobalt oxide and gold. Viruses are being negatively charged is then infiltrated between oppositely charged polymers to form a flexible sheet and very thin. The results manifest as virus-rich layer film and acts as the anode, as contained in his report in the latest issue of the journal Science.


Cobalt metal oxide selected as an element because it is considered to have an energy capacity is excellent. Its energy density could be two to three times higher than the existing battery with the same size and weight. "The addition of gold elements will further enhance the energy density," said Belcher, the team leader.

As stated Belcher, anodes six nanometers in diameter (or six per billionth of a meter) long and 880 units of the same was the first step towards the battery capacity (energy) that large will never die. And once able to do engineering, it will be easy for them to produce millions of identical cloned virus.