Scientists at Stanford University in California have discovered a new technology that may one day allow paper to be used as a battery for electronic devices.
The scientists successfully turned a piece of paper coated with a type of ink into a battery, allowing high-performance energy storage to occur.
“Taking advantage of the mature paper technology, low cost, light and high-performance energy storage are realised by using conductive paper as current collectors and electrodes,” the scientists said in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This technology could be used to power electric vehicles, or may even lead to some type of electronics as thin as paper. “Society really needs a low-cost, high-performance energy storage device, such as batteries and simple super capacitors,” Stanford assistant professor of materials science Yi Cui told News.com.au.
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
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