Batteries That Operate With Any Liquid

Chungpin Liao, a professor at the Graduate School of Electro-Optic and Material Science of National Formosa University in Taiwan has invented an organic battery that creates electricity when wet.

The “organic” battery generates a charge within 10 seconds and will last anywhere from two days to a week depending on the liquid. It works [...]

Viral Micro-batteries

Researchers at MIT have created the world’s first batteries constructed from microscopic viruses.

Viruses are genetically engineered to attract specific anode and cathode materials, molecules like cobalt oxide from a solution, which form wires packed together to create electrodes smaller than a human cell.

Batteries consist of two opposing electrodes, anode and cathode, separated [...]