{"id":6469,"date":"2009-04-03T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/220860710409e8b105e5254cac5bbdd4"},"modified":"2009-04-03T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T14:30:51","slug":"gene-engineered-viruses-build-a-better-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=6469","title":{"rendered":"Gene-engineered viruses build a better battery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers who have trained a tiny virus to do their bidding said on Thursday they made it build a more efficient and powerful lithium battery. They changed two genes in the virus, called M13, and got it to do two things: build a shell made out of a compound called iron phosphate, and then attach to a carbon nanotube to make a powerful and tiny electrode.<\/p>\n

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The technology is inherently green because it involves a live virus. “We are having organisms make the materials for us,” Belcher said. “We are confined to temperatures and solvents — water — that organisms can live in. It's a clean technology. We can't do anything that kills our organisms.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers who have trained a tiny virus to do their bidding said on Thursday they made it build a more efficient and powerful lithium battery. They changed two genes in the virus, called M13, and got it to do two things: build a shell made out of a compound called iron phosphate, and then attach to a carbon nanotube to make a powerful and tiny electrode.<\/p>\n

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The technology is inherently green because it involves a live virus. “We are having organisms make the materials for us,” Belcher said. “We are confined to temperatures and solvents — water — that organisms can live in. It's a clean technology. We can't do anything that kills our organisms.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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