Nanomaterials will be made using viruses?

Until the direct manufacture of nano-plasters of varying degrees of usefulness is still far away. But scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who have announced the development of a new method of manufacturing nanomaterials using viruses, believe that there is a prospect for this approach. And not ghostly.

At first glance, everything looks pretty useless. Since with the help of viruses harmless to humans (which, it would be interesting to know?), Scientists have so far been able only to form the finest fiber, which is comparable in strength to nylon. Practical interest fiber itself is not. But this, according to the researchers, is only the first step towards more serious achievements. Such as, for example, the creation of this fiber nanomaterials, including inorganic particles. And already such materials can be used, for example, in the manufacture of filamentary accumulator filaments, which can be easily woven into the fabric. And this is something.

Not only Massachusetts scientists consider their achievements promising. The US Department of Defense, preoccupied with creating light and capacious batteries for electronics , which soldiers have to carry on themselves, has paid close attention to the viral approach to creating nanomaterials.
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via IXBT