Prospect of Ubiquitous Flexible Displays Just Got a Lot More Realistic

Prospect of Ubiquitous Flexible Displays Just Got a Lot More Realistic

The ability to manufacture flexible lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries is not new, as evidenced by some of the commercial efforts over the last couple of years to bring this technology to market. However, the quest to achieve flexibility for these Li-ion batteries has typically meant using materials that sacrifice performance to the degree that they have little hope of powering consumer gadgets, like a flexible display. Keon Jae Lee, a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Flexible and Nano-bio-energy Device Lab, at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and his colleagues have developed a new manufacturing technique that should allow for inorganic materials to be used that will produce better battery performance. (A demonstration video of the flexible Li-ion can be seen below.) You may remember back in May that Lee developed a ...

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