Thin batteries that are thinner than paper come out

Although the size of electronic devices has become smaller and smaller, it has not been able to "sink into a flash of lightning and brighten everyone's eyes" because of the battery technology. Imagine that your laptop or smart phone can be as thin as a few millimeters. Your smart bracelet can be as thin as paper. Your smart T-shirt can be recharged every day. This kind of life is not very good. Don't say I'm a fantasy. Such a situation may soon become a reality.

Recently, James Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University in the United States, and his colleagues developed a large-capacity battery that is thinner than paper, bendable and foldable, and is likely to help reduce the weight of electronic devices in the future.

The battery uses a porous nickel fluoride film material, and the ions can freely pass through these porous nickel fluoride films. The researchers said that with such materials, more electrical energy can be stored and high battery capacity can still be maintained after charging and discharging tens of thousands of times and bending a thousand times.

36-year-old had previously reported that Taiwan's Huineng Technology's “paper” battery, which was only 0.33mm thick, could be arbitrarily cut like paper, and punctures, tears, impacts, and even gunshots would not cause leakage. Both types of batteries are ideal for use on wearable devices.

Battery technology has always been the biggest obstacle to the development of electronic devices, but there are still significant improvements in 2014. At the beginning of the year, a number of battery companies received financing and expressed their intention to commercialize their battery technology this year. Recently, MIT technicians have developed a new method for mass production of graphene, or changed the solar cell industry; Vanderbilt University has developed a super capacitor that can convert mobile phone cases, automobiles, and walls into fast-charging batteries. Do you not know if 2014 will truly become a breakthrough year for next-generation batteries?