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Researcher Develops Transparent Battery and Envisions Transparent iPhone

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SmartPlanet has a great report today about an engineering professor at Stanford University called Yi Cui, who along with graduate student Yuan Yang, has developed a transparent battery that he says could pave the way for transparent smartphones. As it’s not physically possible to make transparent battery components, Cui has used a visual trick to make the battery appear transparent, creating a grid framework for the battery electrodes.

“Each line in the grid is smaller than 50 microns,” Cui told SmartPlanet.“When a human being looks at an object that’s smaller than 50 microns, it’s not visible. That’s how we make it transparent.”

Having created the battery, the team are now trying to increase its capacity, which currently is only half the power of a regular lithium-ion battery. Cui says that he hope that others in the industry follow his team’s lead and commercialise the transparent battery, so that you could then ultimately have a transparent iPhone, laptop or watch.


Source: Transparent battery developer imagines see-through iPhone | SmartPlanet
 
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