Boffins develop paper thin battery

BOFFS at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have nanoengineered a flexible paper thin battery.

According to Physorg, the battery is lightweight, ultra thin and completely bendy. The boffins want to stick it in the next generation of gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and cars.

It can function in temperatures up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and down to 100 below zero and can be printed like paper.

Not only is it a battery but it can also operate like a high-power supercapacitor and can use blood or sweat to help power itself.

Which means that if your mobile runs out of juice you can always open a vein to get the thing running again.

The project details were published in a racey tech article headlined "Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on Nanocomposite", in the top shelf tabloid "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", which we get for the personals section.

The chip is made up of 90 per cent cellulose, which is also called paper by you and me, but is infused with aligned carbon nanotubes. The nanotubes act as electrodes and allow the storage devices to conduct electricity.

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