Tag: NANOWIRES

A research team from Georgia Tech, led by Professor Zhong Lin Wang, have developed a nanogenerator that could one day be embedded in human bodies and power medical implants. The tiny nanowire takes advantage of the piezoelectric effect to generate electrical current as its squeeze by your muscles when you breath or your heart beats. Wang and his team successfully implanted the nanogenerator on ...

Scientists are hard at work developing the next generation of tiny batteries, and, instead of using dangerous chemicals and heavy metals, they're using viruses -- real, bacteria-eating viruses. For the first time, researchers at MIT recently used these little guys to build the world's first virus-built, Lithium-ion battery. Turns out that viruses can be genetically engineered to act as microscopic ...