Date: Apr 01, 2015 Source: SBIR.gov (
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Emerging applications, from wearable electronics to robotics, and advances in electronics allowing designers to pack more components into ever-more-compact space are driving demand for thin, flexible, high-performance batteries with low toxicity and green chemistries.
With support from the National Science Foundation, Imprint Energy, Inc., a spinout of the Univ. of California, Berkeley, is commercializing a zinc-based printed, flexible battery (ZincPoly).
The innovative feature of this new battery is its highly conductive solid electrolyte, which is composed of air-stable, low-toxicity, earth-abundant non-lithium materials.
This electrolyte is an ionic liquid swelled into a polymer to form a gel. The polymer electrolyte exhibits solid-like mechanical strength and liquid-like ion-transport properties, enabling the fabrication of layered microbattery structures. Read more...http://www.aiche.org/sites/default/files/cep/20150114.pdf
