
Content by Ian Monroe
Argonne National Laboratory announced last week that it had reached a licensing deal with chemical manufacturer BASF to produce and bring to market new materials used to construct advanced battery systems. The new batteries will be used to build next-generation electric and hybrid vehicles and for consumer electronics applications.
Professor Angela Belcher (Donna Coveney, MIT) Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully demonstrated a technique for fabricating a better battery using a genetically engineered virus.