Researchers have developed a way to make high-power, flexible, and stretchable batteries by the dozens using a screen-printing technique much like that used for printing T-shirts (Joule 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.008 ).
The cathode is dry in a few minutes. The current collector and zinc anode and separators can be screen printed and then stacked onto layers to create the final battery product. According to the researchers, a roll-to-roll screen printing processwould be possible to scale up production.
Screen printing and sintering this ink improved the thermoelectric properties, allowing for the construction of devices showing a promising amount of energy harvesting. This strategy should work for other materials and provides a way to produce large-scale, flexible thermoelectrics. —Brent Grocholski
New manufacturing concepts allow higher active material loads and greater freedom in electrode design. Completely printed batteries help on the one hand to break free from the limitations of current manufacturing technology and on the other hand to reduce the use of solvents and subsequent drying processes.
Researchers have tried many ways to make flexible batteries, often out of polymers, that complement wearable gadgets of the future. But methods like 3-D printing used to make such polymer-based batteries are complex, costly, and slow, Meng says. There is a need for a way to make tens of millions of high-performance, flexible batteries at low cost.
Batteriescan now be screen-printed onto a polymer film, making them highly flexible, allowing greater freedom in product design and giving them highly competitive properties compared to state of the art lithium-ion batteries.
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