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 and cathodes in the batteries. She is using that programming to increase energy density, and to make thin, flexible battery cells

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