Scientists Create High-Density, Flexible Lithium-Ion Batteries

[tuanmai]

One step closer to flexible electronics!

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[Guest]

Keep going I want my wearable gear in the next 2 years, no more of this carrying a hard piece of plastic around anymore.

 

[pythy]

It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?

 

[altriss]

it looks like another Korean company has brought us one step closer to flexible electronics

KAIST Is not a company, it's a university! It's like saying Berkeley is a company... No sense, isn't it?


By the way it would fit great into some device such as Samsung Galaxy Skin!
I just hope Aple will not scream about idea patent infringement...

 

[vittau]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]
Yeah, but I guess it should increase shock-resistance, so that's a good thing...

 

[bawchicawawa]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]

If you drop your phone or tablet everything wont shatter is what i'm guessing.

 

[kronos_cornelius]

I think this is great for large screen phones such as the Galaxy Note. A thinner phone that has a large screen and can bend would be easier to carry in your pant's pocket.

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]

Most new inventions where 'useless' at first.
When I bought my first 'computer ( A Sinclair ZX-81); all my friends decided I was nuts to spend a weeks salary on a silly toy.
I had my first 'cell phone' in 1984 (actually a car phone with a huge and expensive box in the trunk.
Everyone kept asking my... 'what is it good for'.

I bet someone will come up with a cool idea for those batteries and the rest of us will be wondering why 'we' did not think of it.

Gotta love technology ;-)

 

[tolham]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]
bendable means it can bend to the contours of your body, for instance. if they get it flexible enough, you could roll it up or fold it.

 

[rbagany]

I can think of a use: if you all remember the movie, "Let's Go to Prison", that's what the warden said: "If you have comments or suggestions about how I run my prison write it neatly on some paper, fold it up real good, pull your cheeks apart and stick it up your a*hole. If you have comments or suggestions about how I run my prison or, Iet's say, maybe the cuisine is not to your Iiking, please write a Ietter to my office."
Now, there you have it! All this - of course - on e-paper and bendable e-gadgets

 

[digiex]

I hope all this technological press releases, like graphane transistors, air lithium batteries, etc. would be be available to consumers sooner.

 

[frostmachine]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]

In electric/hybrid car, a battery that's able to bend would be less likely to break in a collision. Might even provide better shock absorption.

 

[master_chen]

Just give me my i5 4GHz notebook that can be rolled up like a news paper/magazine already! %))

 

[hetneo]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]
Designer watches that double as gadget of any kind with screen, apparel with screens in and or on it (yes there are some prototypes around but all have bulky battery in one of pockets), ebook readers that roll in and out of some casing with battery being integrated in screen, and so on. But also this tech will not be limited to making batteries that can flex, at the moment there are constraints about shape of batteries, they need to have specific internal structure, this will change that. So there will be irregular shaped batteries too.

 

[darkavenger123]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]

Wearable bra and undies....play angry birds..if win game with 3 stars. Remove the part covering the titties from the screen!!!

 

[Guest]

"It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?"

This is a no-brainer: BENDER!

 

[alyoshka]

I kinda like the idea as long as the bra and undies are on the dames outside and can be activated randomly using the phones Bluetooth...

 

[alyoshka]

3DDs would be great for the angry birds camouflage and of course we'll have the 'birds' getting even angrier...

 

[James296]

[citation][nom]frostmachine[/nom]In electric/hybrid car, a battery that's able to bend would be less likely to break in a collision. Might even provide better shock absorption.[/citation]

not to mention you can in places on car that other batteries can't go, like lets say, inside the curves of a car's frame

 

[James296]

[citation][nom]frostmachine[/nom]In electric/hybrid car, a battery that's able to bend would be less likely to break in a collision. Might even provide better shock absorption.[/citation]

not to mention you can put it in places on car that other batteries can't go, like lets say, inside the curves of a car's frame

 

[Bloob]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]

For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mtyx412eXo

I'm sure there could be many other things that could benefit from it.

 

[razor512]

a standard lithium polymer can be made in pretty much any shape (eg you can make one in a "U" shape or just about any other contiguous shape. The layers just have to be shaped before the bonding process is done.

Making a battery flexible after the fact seems insanely difficult and somewhat unnecessary (unless you plan to make a entirely flexible device (flexible PCB, flexible oled display and battery)

 

[Guest]

If you have ever sat on your phone, you can really see the benefit, smart phones just don't like to bend.
And the trip to the hospital to have LCD shards removed is just not fun.

 

[robochump]

[citation][nom]pythy[/nom]It's a good breakthrough and all but I seriously can't think of a gadget that would work better if it was able to bend. Can someone please give an example?[/citation]

Watch or fitness wrist band

 

[fb39ca4]

That will be released in three-to-five years.