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Tame Viruses May Help Increase Battery Capacity

December 9th, 2010 link to (permalink)

This is rather a creepy line of research. The tobacco mosaic virus, which normally preys on tobacco crops, has been modified in such a way that it is essentially being used as a tiny helper, and millions of them can line up and bind themselves to the walls of battery cells, increasing the surface...

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