{"id":6856,"date":"2009-04-08T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/2009\/04\/08\/virus-battery-could-power-future-handheld-devices\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:21:00","slug":"%e2%80%98virus-battery%e2%80%99-could-power-future-handheld-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=6856","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Virus Battery\u2019 Could Power Future Handheld Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/mitei\/research\/spotlights\/virus-battery.html\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  title=\"Bacteriophage Battery Makers\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bacteriophage Battery Makers\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/virus-battery.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Viruses have plagued mankind since before recorded history, but we\u2019ve only been studying the little buggers since they were first identified in the late nineteenth century.&#160; That 100+ years of study has yielded many benefits; scientists have not only learned how to protect us from many of their devastating effects, they\u2019ve begun to use viruses to help us, too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The latest human-friendly virus? A genetically engineered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bacteriophage\"  >bacteriophage<\/a> redesigned to create a new generation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanowire_batteries\"  >nanowire batteries<\/a>.&#160; Essentially, these tamed viruses are set loose, given a supply of battery-making materials and a friendly production environment.&#160; The results: a battery that could outlast our current Li-Ion batteries three times over.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This M13 virus was designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/mitei\/research\/spotlights\/virus-battery.html\"  >Angela Belcher and her team at MIT<\/a>, and the batteries the virus make possible not only promise longer life for our battery-powered gismos and machines (MP3 players, cell phones, computers and even cars), they\u2019re also more environmentally friendly to produce than today\u2019s batteries.&#160; In addition, these new batteries can be \u201cvery lightweight, flexible, and [able to] take the shape of their container.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So far, the team has only built a prototype good for 100 charges, but this could be the start of something great for mobile devices.&#160; And the so-called \u201cmolecular production process\u201d employed for this type of battery could spread to many other types of computing hardware as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nViruses have plagued mankind since before recorded history, but we\u2019ve only been studying the little buggers since they were first identified in the late nineteenth century.&#160; That 100+ years of study has yielded many benefits; scientists have not only learned how to protect us from many of their devastating effects, they\u2019ve begun to use [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=6856\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}