Electric Viruses

Nanotechnology is on rise. This time scientists are coming with a nano generator. The Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory claims to generate electricity from viruses. They have developed a small generator which has enough power to operate a tiny devices.

How the device and viruses generate electricity

The device has very thin layer loaded with M13 viruses. As we put the pressure on the layer by finger tapping or putting the device in shoes, the viruses will change our mechanical work into electricity. The Viruses are harmeless and they manufacture themselves, which means has no loss and no cost.

"More research is needed, but our work is a promising first step toward the development of personal power generators, actuators for use in nano-devices, and other devices based on viral electronics," says Seung-Wuk Lee, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and a UC Berkeley associate professor of bioengineering.