Virus put to use as a battery

The “self-renewing” and “self-assembling” properties of the virus have been harnessed to build a small, powerful and highly efficient batteries and fuel cells.

University of Maryland: 7 December 2010

Image on home page: SEM image of Ni/TiO2 nanocomposite electrode (top), cross-section TEM image of an individual nanorod showing the core/shell nanostructure (Credit: University of Maryland, College Park)