Abstract
Viral Battery In developing materials for batteries, there is a trade-off between charge capacity, conductivity, and chemical stability. Nanostructured materials improve the conductivity for some resistive materials, but fabricating stable materials at nanometer-length scales is difficult. Harnessing their knowledge of viruses as toolkits for materials fabrication, Lee et al. (p. 1051; published online 2 April) modified two genes in the filamentous bacteriophage M13 to produce a virus with an affinity for nucleating amorphous iron phosphate along its length and for attaching carbon nanotubes at one of the ends. In nanostructured form, the amorphous iron phosphate produced a useful cathode material, while the carbon nanotubes formed a percolating network that significantly enhanced conductivity.
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Dates
Type | When |
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Created | 16 years, 4 months ago (April 2, 2009, 9:49 p.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 7 months ago (Jan. 10, 2024, 4:39 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 month ago (July 25, 2025, 6:29 a.m.) |
Issued | 16 years, 3 months ago (May 22, 2009) |
Published | 16 years, 3 months ago (May 22, 2009) |
Published Print | 16 years, 3 months ago (May 22, 2009) |
@article{Lee_2009, title={Fabricating Genetically Engineered High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Multiple Virus Genes}, volume={324}, ISSN={1095-9203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1171541}, DOI={10.1126/science.1171541}, number={5930}, journal={Science}, publisher={American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)}, author={Lee, Yun Jung and Yi, Hyunjung and Kim, Woo-Jae and Kang, Kisuk and Yun, Dong Soo and Strano, Michael S. and Ceder, Gerbrand and Belcher, Angela M.}, year={2009}, month=may, pages={1051–1055} }