A startup in California is developing a low-cost rechargeable battery with flexibility. The battery can be printed with just an industrial screen printer. Imprint Energy has tested this ultra-thin zinc polymer battery on wearables. At present, the company said that it hopes to sell this equipment to equipment manufacturers such as wearers, medical, smart labels and environmental sensors. The company is committed to manufacturing safe and reliable batteries for wearable devices, while at the same time hoping to get rid of the limitations imposed by bulk lithium batteries through the ultra-small size of the battery and its bendability. Even if the battery is so small, it can provide enough current for the wireless communication sensor, which is what a similar small battery can't match. The company recently received a $6 million investment from AME Cloud Ventures from Phoenix Ventures and Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang. The funds will be used for patent applications and business development. Previously, the US CIA's In-Q-Tel and Dow Chemical had invested in the project. The battery design is based on the research of the company's co-founder Christine Ho at the University of California, Berkeley. In this study, she worked with Japanese scholars to study the production of miniature zinc batteries for 3D printers. Most laptops and smartphone batteries on the market currently contain lithium. Lithium is highly active, so the outside has to be heavily protected. Zinc is more stable than this, but the water-based electrolyte in conventional zinc batteries tends to cause zinc to produce dendrites (branched structures) that connect different electrodes to cause short circuits. Christine successfully solved this problem by replacing solid electrolytes with water-based electrolytes. In addition, this improvement brings better stability and greater charging capacity to the battery. Brooks Kincaid, chairman and founder of the company, said: The battery combines the excellent features of thin-film lithium batteries and printed batteries. Thin-film lithium batteries have the advantage of being rechargeable, with the disadvantage of limited capacity but high price. Printed batteries are usually not rechargeable, a bit cheaper, usually made of zinc and have a larger capacity. A successful product is often divided into two parts: production and sales. Christine said that although there are certain markets for bendable batteries today, there is still a lack of a standard for measuring bendability. So the company set up its own tests and therefore developed standards. The bendable battery currently on the market cannot be used after a thousand bend tests, and Imprint's battery can continue to be used normally. Imprint is now working with the US military to power the battery for sensors that monitor the health of soldiers. Aluminum Cnc Part,aluminum cnc machining parts,aluminum cnc turning parts,cnc machine aluminum parts,aluminum cnc milling parts Taizhou TS HARDWARE Co., Ltd , https://www.shuwengroup.com