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04 Apr 2009 HEADLINE


MIT Researchers Coax Virus to Create Better Lithium Battery



Source: Daily Tech
Class: SYNDICATED NEWS

SYNOPSIS: The battery could be produced cheaply and would be environmentally benign.

The battery is one of those ubiquitous devices that most of us use in our everyday lives and never think much about. Everything from your car to your notebook to your cell phone uses a battery of some sort. With the need to move to greener methods to power vehicles, much research is being conducted on technologies that will make batteries better.

A group of researchers from MIT has announced that they were able to construct a battery using a common type of virus that is not harmful to humans called a bacteriophage. Angela Belcher, lead researcher on the team said that the new battery could one day be used to power electronics and even electric cars.

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