Conference proceeding
Microbatteries with tobacco mosaic virus templated electrodes
MEMS 2008: 21ST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, TECHNICAL DIGEST, pp 960-963
01 Jan 2008
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Abstract
The successful demonstration of a MEMS-fabricated battery incorporating viral nanostructures to increase the effective electrode area is reported in this paper. Nickel-zinc microbatteries with nanostructured cathodes utilizing self-assembly of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) have been fabricated and characterized. A novel packaging scheme was created to investigate the effects of TMV coatings as well as microbattery geometry. Addition of the TMV structures increases the reactive surface area by an order of magnitude and enhances the battery performance. The capacity of a TMV modified battery was improved by a factor of six over planar electrode geometries. Appropriate charge-discharge behavior was observed for various designs, showing a twofold increase in capacity for an equivalent decrease in electrode spacing.
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- Title
- Microbatteries with tobacco mosaic virus templated electrodes
- Creators
- K. Gerasopoulos - University of Maryland, College ParkM. McCarthy - University of Maryland, College ParkE. Royston - University of Maryland, College ParkJ. N. Culver - University of Maryland, College ParkR. Ghodssi - Integrated Sensors
- Publication Details
- MEMS 2008: 21ST IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, TECHNICAL DIGEST, pp 960-963
- Series
- Proceedings IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Number of pages
- 2
- Grant note
- Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the University of Maryland
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000253356900240
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-50149112225
- Other Identifier
- 991021934211304721
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- Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
- Engineering, Mechanical