Accidental nano-breakthrough may be big for batteries, bioenergy

Reuters
By Marie C. Baca at VentureBeat
Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:20pm EDT

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., have found a way to assemble nanoparticles into larger structures, a technique that could accelerate the development of battery and bioenergy-based technologies.

Argonne biophysicist John Bahns said in a press release that the research could be used to build cathodes with large surface areas, which could then be turned into high-energy batteries. His colleague Liaohai Chen said the technology could also be used to create miniscule imaging probes in biological systems, which would be useful for studying bioenergy applications.

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