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Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) belonging to the United States Department of Energy has developed a way to generate electricity from a harmless virus.
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"However, further research is needed, but our work is a promising first step in the development of personal power that is used for equipment and nano-electronics-based equipment virus (viral electronics)," said Berkeley Lab scientist Biological Engineering, Seung-Wuk Lee, in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
 Together with two colleagues, Ramamoorthy Ramesh and Byung Yang Lee, Seung-Wuk Lee tested a way to create a generator that could produce enough energy to power a small liquid-crystal display.

Generators that produce electric when a postage stamp-sized electrode coated with a special virus tapped with a finger. Virus into the electrode to convert the power of knocking (mechanical energy) into electricity.
The first tool is a producer of electric power generator that utilizes the piezoelectric properties of biological materials. Piezoelectricity is the accumulated charge (electricity) in a solid form that provides a response to mechanical stress. M13 virus used in the creation electrodes Lee and his colleagues only attack bacteria and not harmful to humans. The virus is able to multiply himself (millions) in a matter of hours so that the energy supply remains available.

Lee describes the current generator capable of producing up to six nano-ampere and voltage of 400 milli-volts when under pressure from the fingers. That energy is enough to display the number "1" in the screen that requires a quarter of a voltage of AAA batteries. In the video official, Lee describes how the energy conversion process that can occur with the use of viruses.
"Given the tools of biotechnology of genetically engineered viruses can be produced in large scale, virus-based piezoelectric materials can offer a simple way for the development of new microelectronics in the future," said Lee.