Tiny New Battery Is Printable

mrpayroll · 07-02-09, 02:17 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...YEUl9sdHADMQ--

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LiveScience Staff

LiveScience.com

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A new battery, small and thin, weighs almost nothing and can be printed in a process similar to silk-screening shirts.

The printable battery is expected to cheap and easy to mass produce and could be used in disposable receipts or cards, engineers in Germany announced today.

"Our goal is to be able to mass produce the batteries at a price of single digit cent range each," said Andreas Willert, of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS, where Reinhard Baumann led the battery's development.

The battery weighs less than 1 gram and is less than 1 millimeter thick. It runs at 1.5 volts. Placing several in a row can produce up to 6 volts.

A standard AAA battery weighs about 11.5 grams and also runs at 1.5 volts.

The newly developed battery has a life span more limited than traditional batteries, however. Here are the technical details:

The battery is composed of different layers: a zinc anode and a manganese cathode, among others. Zinc and manganese react with one another and produce electricity. However, the anode and the cathode layer dissipate gradually during this chemical process. Therefore, the battery is suitable for applications which have a limited life span or a limited power requirement.

The battery new contains no mercury and so more environmentally friendly than some.

Actual products with the battery could be ready by the end of the year, the engineers said.

Chris

D.Pham00 · 07-02-09, 02:38 PM

what would be an application that could use this?

Numanoid · 07-02-09, 02:45 PM

Hooray. Musical greeting cards just got thinner!

D.Pham00 · 07-02-09, 02:51 PM

and, maybe cheaper too.

mrpayroll · 07-02-09, 04:20 PM

The possibilities are endless. This is just the start of making a power source much smaller.

Chris

Aphex Twin · 07-02-09, 05:06 PM

Cool. I needed a new battery for my laptop, but will wait for these.

Groucho · 07-02-09, 05:10 PM

Throw this shit in a hybrid car, and you've got something.

D.Pham00 · 07-02-09, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Aphex Twin

Cool. I needed a new battery for my laptop, but will wait for these.

yeah, it'll power your laptop for about 3 seconds...

Mrs. Danger · 07-02-09, 05:46 PM

I wonder how much energy is used to make one?

imperator505 · 07-02-09, 05:47 PM

Send me the file and I'll run a few off on my inkjet and see if they're any good.

drmoze · 07-03-09, 05:44 PM

"It runs at 1.5 volts. Placing several in a row can produce up to 6 volts."

Like, maybe, 4 in a row?

(In series, of course.)

mrpayroll · 07-06-09, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by drmoze

"It runs at 1.5 volts. Placing several in a row can produce up to 6 volts."

Like, maybe, 4 in a row?

(In series, of course.)

Looks like someone did well in math, in school

Chris

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