'Organic Radical' Rechargeable Battery Designed by Japanese Scientists

Although this looks like a contact lens for a large robotic eye, it's really a rechargeable battery. It's the product of a group of Japanese scientists, and it's a polymer-based "organic radical" power source that can charge in just 60 seconds and can last 1,000 charges.


The film is just 200 nanometers thick and is the result of "spin-coating" a soluble polymer in a crosslinked fashion without losing the battery's charge—until now an insurmountable hurdle.

And although the scientists envision this kind of flexible battery in wide release in some kind of finished form - like an LCD or an OLED, we can't help but wonder whether you can see it again if you drop it on the floor.




Written by Jeff Strickler
Published in Other Tech