Name: Stretchy Batteries Are Coming... Here's How They Work
Uploaded: 2021-04-12T14:05:47.000Z
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We already wear technology, from Apple watches to devices that monitor our vitals for medical

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There are even researchers in Sweden developing an in-body intranet that can link all wearable

As more and more things become integrated into our bodies, batteries will have to follow.

Right now, batteries are rigid, meaning whatever you put them in -- like a cell phone -- has

Then there's that pesky issue where lithium-ion batteries in cellphones have a tendency to

We're going to need a different power solution before we can better integrate personal devices

around our flexible bodies, and we're already seeing some early flexible battery technologies

One recent development isn't the battery elements but a binding agent for the elements.

All batteries are like little columns or bricks.

The internal elements are: the negatively charged anode, the positively charged cathode,

and some kind of the electrolyte that separates them.

Once the circuit is closed — say when a battery is put in a flashlight — electrons

can travel from the anode to the cathode, powering the light bulb along the way.

A team of researchers have created a new kind of glue that can bind battery elements together

Hydrogels are water-based materials that aren't dissimilar to the tissues that make up human

The battery isn't stretchy, but the casing is!

The new glue is made of super glue's main ingredient — cyanoacrylate — mixed with

an organic non-solvent that delays the fluid's hardening.

This allows the adhesive to permeate porous materials before it sets, creating an instantaneous

It's an adhesive that can hold 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) and stretch as much as 2,000

The glue tech is well suited to stretchable batteries, electronic skin, and even hydrogel-based

But it's not just this new glue that's getting us closer to stretchy electronics!

A different team from the University of California Berkeley developed a battery that can stretch

They took the elements of a battery and arranged them end to end along a helical spring or

flexible wire… basically a tiny slinky that experiences minimal stresses when it's bent.

This is an ideal form for a bracelet, making these stretchy batteries a great option for

wearables that need to be in contact with the skin.

Another design sees a wire snaking along in a flexible polymer such that when it's flexed

the wire stretches without decreasing the battery's chemical power.

These batteries can be charged like any other battery, but the Berkeley team is looking

ahead at incorporating tiny solar cells, because the more devices we have the less practical

it will become to plug each one into the wall to recharge.

So, we have a stretchy case and we have stretchy battery elements, but this is all still in

Stretchy batteries are years away, but, like, 5 years away, not decades!

Just think, someday stretchy batteries could let us bend a cell phone around our wrists

before we work out… or maybe bring back slap bracelets -- but way more technologically

If you're worried about plugging all these things in though -- maybe don't?

Wireless charging might be on the way thanks to this new design.

Let us know what tech you're excited to have stretchy batteries for in the comments,

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Stretchy Batteries Are Coming... Here's How They Work

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