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Old 08-16-2007, 12:57   #1 (permalink)
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Lightbulb + Tiny and flexible: the future of batteries?!

Scientists create paper-thin, flexible, biodegradable battery



If you crack the back off of an Nokia N95 or any other modern portable electronic device, you'll find a big honking battery that takes up a huge amount of space and contributes to a large part of the device's weight and still can’t provide enough energy to maintain business as usual and use multimedia on a higher activity level unfortunately.

Fuel cells and solar power have both been floated as promising solutions to the battery weight/capacity problem, but new research suggests that carbon nanotubes may eventually provide the best hope of implementing the flexible batte... .. .

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