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US 9,559,360 B2Granted
Virus scaffold for self-assembled, flexible and light lithium battery
AssigneeMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InventorsKi Tae Nam, Chung-Yi Chiang, Angela M. Belcher
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Abstract
A variety of compositions that include a metal oxide, films and batteries comprising one or more of the compositions, and methods of making the same.
Claims20
A composition comprising:
- an oxide of a metal coordinated to a protein at a first binding peptide motif,
- wherein
- the first binding peptide motif exhibits an affinity for a reduced form of the metal,
- the first binding peptide motif comprises the sequence AEEEED (SEQ ID NO:
- 1),
- the first binding peptide motif has a length of 25 or less amino acids, and
- the metal is selected from the group consisting of cobalt, vanadium, nickel, manganese, cadmium, tungsten, chromium, zirconium, titanium, scandium, yttrium, copper, calcium, aluminum, barium, beryllium, magnesium, and strontium.
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A composition produced by the steps of:
- providing a protein including a first binding peptide motif, the first binding peptide motif exhibiting an affinity for metal ions;
- coordinating a metal to the first binding peptide motif;
- and
- oxidizing the coordinated metal to form a crystallite of the metal oxide, wherein the first binding peptide motif comprises the sequence AEEEED (SEQ ID NO:
- 1),
- wherein the first binding peptide motif has a length of 25 or less amino acids, and
- wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of cobalt, vanadium, nickel, manganese, cadmium, tungsten, chromium, zirconium, titanium, scandium, yttrium, copper, calcium, aluminum, barium, beryllium, magnesium, and strontium.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.