Tobacco Virus To Power Li Batteries & Flash Me

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Submission + - Tobacco Virus To Power Li Batteries & Flash Me (itproportal.com)

Submitted by siliconbits on Friday December 10, 2010 @10:41AM

siliconbits writes: One of the world's most destructive naturally-occuring scourges, the Tobacco mosaic virus (or TMV) could be used in a near future to boost the capacity of Lithium Ion batteries by 10 times and even power Flash memory.

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