Development of low-profile, high-capacity batteries using genetically engineered viruses

Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the United States have succeeded in making thinner and larger capacity batteries than before by using viruses whose properties were changed by gene manipulation.

Details are as follows.
Researchers build tiny batteries with viruses - MIT News Office

According to this article, MIT's research team manipulates the genes of the virus, causing the virus to form a coat of cobalt oxide as well as a coat of protein that collects gold, and the virus itself has a diameter of 6 nanometers (1 It is said that they succeeded in arranging them so that they function as ultra fine wires of 6 billionths of meters.

By using ultrafine wires, cobalt oxide and gold using this virus, it is said that 2 to 3 times larger capacity than conventional batteries will be realized.

Also, when such ultrafine wires are manufactured by ordinary technology, expensive equipment that adjusts temperature and pressure is necessary, but there is no need for using a virus, in addition to that, If you manipulate the genes of the virus in order to make it, then you can easily replicate if you clone the virus, so manufacturing costs are suppressed.