Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @08:22AM from the hard-to-see dept.

Med-trump writes "Stanford researchers say they have developed a transparent battery. Transparent futuristic gadgets have been a topic of science fiction and dream of engineers. The paper "Transparent lithium-ion batteries" was published in the July 25 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They used a grid-structured electrode, which is fabricated by a microfluidics-assisted method, such that the feature dimension in the electrode is below the resolution limit of human eyes, and, thus, the electrode appears transparent."

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I'd rather .... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-27 09:12 · Score: 4, Insightful

I'd much rather see a battery that lasts 10times longer, or that can be charged 10times faster, or that can release energy at a rate 10times faster, than have engineers spend time on creating a transparent battery.
Am I alone in that?