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Researchers Spray-Paint Batteries Onto Almost Any Surface
Warmlight writes "Rice University researchers have created a type of lithium-ion battery that can be spray-painted onto most surfaces. 'Their batteries, outlined in Scientific Reports (abstract), are made up of five separate layers, each with its own recipe — together measuring just 0.5mm thick. To demonstrate the technique, the team painted batteries onto steel, glass, ceramic tile and even a beer stein.' What do you think this will do for future form-factors? Maybe a form-fitting PipBoy-style device that doesn't weigh 30lbs?"
I'm actually surprised to see this coming out from Rice, wasn't this stuff being done 20 years ago by another Rice group? Maybe additional substrates this time? Looks like a review of their references may be necessary.
How would it connect?
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That's great and everything. But what kind of capacitance can they get out of these? And do we have any idea about the lifespan and durability of this process?
It'd be great to get away from huge battery columns or battery blocks in the trunk/engine area, or staying with them and using this to augment them and raise the top range of the vehicles.
But until there's more specific information, this is "interesting" but not very helpful.
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painted batteries onto steel, glass, ceramic tile and even a beer stein.
Fucking taggers.
Singh said the batteries were easily charged with a small solar cell.
Or, you can just paint a new one,...
What about outside usage. Will the sun affect the color of the paint thus have any consequences to the performance of the batterie just like it did (I don't know if it still does..last news it didnt) with solar panels over time ?
There are two very important questions that should have been answered:
1) How much power are the getting from the Beer Stein in the picture.
2) What beer is in the stein.
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I was expecting a few minutes at best so storing enough to run LED lights for 6 hours was impressive. The number of charge discharge cycles is a major question. What intrigues me is pairing this with spray on solar cells so you end up with a coating that collects and stores power. Imagine light poles that collect and store power then discharge it at night with no visible wires or solar cells. Also roofing tiles that collect and store energy. The real trick would be getting the life cycle to match solar cells which is actually quite long. Traditional cells wouldn't come close but pairing this with nano technology might make the cells more durable. Either way it's interesting technology. Ultimately though what it's likely to do is create devices that are completely disposable since the batteries are fully intergrated.
Because all the smart Indians are looking for possibilities for making their dreams come true. When in your home country the stupid try to pull you down and there are more of them, what would you do? I've seen it myself but in my own country.
This will save the money normally spent on attaching electrodes to the balls. Direct connection!
Your trying to pull us down you mean !
Isn't this more or less the idea behind a leyden jar? If so, are they not more like capacitors then batteries?
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Put all this into a can and we'll have some really interesting tagging sprayed onto everything.
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I think a blinking LED on the top would be quite handy.
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Paint battery why not, specially if it helps to manufacture special shapes for special needs.
But what about recycling if every product have different battery shape with some on metal, other on ceramic or plactic...
There are two very important questions that should have been answered:
1) How much power are the getting from the Beer Stein in the picture.
2) What beer is in the stein.
3) Are they also working on a spray-paintable Peltier cooler so that we can keep our beer cold and our hands warm at the same time?
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Yeah, it's called the brain drain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_drain
Well if you did, and she complains you're spending too much time on Slashdot, you can just spray some battery on her Brass Buzzing Thing and go back to your Linux talk or whatever you were doing.
Why is India in such a bad state when there are so many smart Indians?
High difficulty level. I live in Finland which has been called "the least failed state in the world". This is nice and all but anyone trying to improve India is dealing with something like 250 times the population, a thousand languages and cultures (probably an understatement) and a warm climate which will give you a great variety of diseases whenever it feels like it. There's also the whole mutual hate thing with Pakistan.
Given the circumstances India seems like a surprising success to me. I hope they can keep it up.
This is fantastic! Beer cans or bottles can be made with their own power supply for self chilling. Never again will we need to suffer from WBS (warm beer syndrome).
I can't see a use for this other than to create more industrial waste that is a pain in the butt to deal with. Whatever you spray it on has a defined shelf life then with no prospect of repair.
That would be awesome.
Time to offend someone
One use that sprung to my mind for this would be for power storage at home if one wanted to go renewable. You wouldn't need to figure out where to put the battery bank and when the capacity of the painted on batteries gets to low you just repaint your house.
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1. It removes the ability to have a drop in spare (i.e. is not user replaceable.)
2. The "packaging" they refer to is also a vital part of the mechanical integrity of a battery. Mechanical integrity is kind of important.
3. Spraying a battery directly to the case of a device ensures that the full force of any mechanical shock is applied to the battery as well.
All of this together makes me believe that the only use this could have is for relatively small items that you do not intend to move around.
From what I gather, India is also dealing with massive levels of political corruption.
The problem is that the citizenry suffers from widespread crushing poverty and lack of basic necessary services to maintain a developed society because of an incredibly unbalanced distribution of wealth, constant abuse by megacorporations who take advantage of vast swaths of land, resources, and the workforce without any interference and in some cases active assistance from an incredibly corrupt government that has practically institutionalized bribery, grift, and nepotism all of which is constantly being besieged on all sides by a backwards ignorance-worshipping violent religious group that wants to drag the country back to the stone age.
Meanwhile in India they've got many of the same problems...
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Spraypaint the cathode on the back of the screen, and the anode on a second piece of ceramic, put them together, and done. That's the battery. Awesome!
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I see a lot of applications for this if the capacity can be expanded.
Why is India in such a bad state when there are so many smart Indians?
There are over a billion people in India. The smart ones you meet may just be a statistical anomaly.
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Plenty of women buying Violet wands to make their man's penis electrified for sex.
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A housing or body usually usually does not serve much purposes other than mechanical support to the interior, heat dissipation or design. Given this battery is practically usable without much cooling or heating it would become a smart way of using the case itself to store the energy. To make it "any" shape is perfect versus reserving much space for a block shaped battery and it can allow for a better weight distribution of devices. Now it depends on how much capacity it harnesses and how it can be applied to certain shapes.
Is it capable of being used with conductive base material?