Building a Better Battery – With Plastic!

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-022.html' target='_blank'>http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-022.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"It’s thin, light, flexible – and plastic. Brown University engineers Hyun-Kon Song and Tayhas Palmore have created a prototype polymer-based battery that packs more power than a standard alkaline battery and more storage capacity than a double-layered capacitor. Their work, published in Advanced Materials, will be of interest to the energy, defense and aerospace industries, which are looking at more efficient ways to deliver electricity."</i><br /><br />The results of this technology could be very interesting. If they manage to make a polymer based battery then there's a possibility that they could wrap your phone or other electronic device in it. Or even make fabric out of it. 8O This has some pretty cool potential, but I'm guessing we won't see this available any time in the near future.