ChemIONS

Hi friends, I read the intereting blog from heinzmartin, and thought of inviting your attention to another recent bio-inspired research by some motivated chemists..

Have you ever thought of cell phones with virus-based rechargeable batteries?  What do u feel of cell phones which mend their cracks when dropped?   Interesting, isn’t it?    Well, this was the real motivation for Prof.  Angela Belcher and her colleagues from MIT, who developed the first biologically based nano-scale rechargeable battery. 

Belcher is the director of Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT, and her research won MacArthur Fou