Virus-Based Method of Creating and Installing Microbatteries

Professors Angela Belcher, Yet-Ming Chiang, and Paula Hammond (ChemE) have developed a way to at once create and install such microbatteries — which could one day power a range of miniature devices, from labs-on-a-chip to implantable medical sensors — by stamping them onto a variety of surfaces. Their research is published in PNAS. See the MIT News Office for the full story.