March 7, 2008
Can a virus make a better battery for electric bikes and electric cars? That’s what MIT researcher Angela Belcher is working on. She is developing means to engineer new materials by “programming” bacteriophage viruses. She programs them genetically, and this causes them to produce proteins in particular configurations to optimize the properties of the anodes [...]
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December 20, 2007
Here is a bit of additional information on the LiFePO4 packs we’ll be carrying. These are packs made specifically for electric bikes by PHET (Phisiang Industries) that make the highest quality C-coated lithium iron phosphate (C-LiFePO4) cells available, based on the Phostech chemistry. For pictures of the packs, see this blog post. We have been [...]
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