Watt's This?

The world's smallest battery; it is one one-hundredth the size of a red blood cell and puts out twenty one-thousandths of a volt. Its terminals are pillars of copper and silver atoms piled 100,000 high by scientists using a scanning tunneling electron microscope.

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