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• Flexible Batteries That Never Need to Be Recharged

  European researchers have integrated thin-film organic solar cells with a flexible polymer battery to produce a lightweight and ultrathin solar battery for low-wattage electronic devices, such as smart cards and mobile phones. ... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:44 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Batteries, Solar cells

• Sugar-fuelled battery soon to juice up portable electronics

  Fuel cell technology that is currently in development boasts the ability of extracting energy from virtually any sugar source to power portable electronics. The cell operates at room temperature and uses enzymes to oxidize sugars, hence generating... Read more
  Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 11:49 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Fuel cells, Batteries

• Batteries will be everywhere with nanotechnology

  USA Today covers the challenging but environmentally important issue of making batteries: inefficient, nasty things today that need to get a lot better and cheaper. And they will, with nanotech developed by these two MIT professors: [Prof. Angela] Belcher’s Read more
  Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 5:42 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Research, Nanotechnology, Health, Nanotech, Nano, Future Warfare, Batteries, Military nanotechnology, and Safety, Environment

• Hot Advance for Thermoelectrics

  By trapping organic molecules between a gold surface and the ultrafine gold tip of a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers have shown that the molecules could be used to generate electricity. "Thermoelectric devices" based on the molecules co... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:22 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Batteries, Energy, Thermoelectric devices

• Finally, nanotechnology makes a greener battery

  The company mPHASE points out that battery technology advance has been dismal compared to computer chips. Now they’ve used nanotechnology to build a more environmentally-friendly, longer shelf-life battery, and made a two-minute movie, posted on YouTube, Read more
  Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:46 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanobusiness, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nanotechnology, Health, Nanotech, Nano, Batteries, and Safety, Environment

• Self-Assembling Batteries

  Researchers at MIT have designed a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that assembles itself out of microscopic materials. This could lead to ultrasmall power sources for sensors and micromachines the size of the head of a pin. It could also make it... Read more
  Posted Sunday, February 18, 2007 8:59 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Batteries

• Battery Breakthrough?

  EEStor claims that its system, a kind of battery-ultracapacitor hybrid based on barium-titanate powders, will dramatically outperform the best lithium-ion batteries on the market in terms of energy density, price, charge time, and safety. Such a ... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:27 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Batteries

• Charging Batteries without Wires

  MIT researchers have worked out a theoretical scheme for a wireless-energy transfer that could charge or power devices within a couple of meters of a small power "base station" plugged into an electrical outlet. The power base station would emit ... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:14 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Batteries

• Powerful Batteries That Assemble Themselves

  Biology may be the key to producing light-weight, inexpensive, and high-performance batteries that could transform military uniforms into power sources and, eventually, improve electric and hybrid vehicles. Through a combination of genetic design ... Read more
  Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 12:24 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Batteries