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Science-Technology Title: Rice University develops spray-on battery prototype Researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a prototype spray-on battery that could allow engineers to rethink the way portable electronics are designed. The rechargeable battery boasts similar electrical characteristics to the lithium ion batteries that power almost every mobile gadget, but it can be applied in layers to almost any surface with a conventional airbrush, said Neelam Singh, a Rice University graduate student who led a team working on the technology for more than a year. Current lithium ion batteries are almost all variations on the same basic form: an inflexible block with electrodes at one end. Because they cannot easily be shaped, they sometimes restrict designers, particularly when it comes to small gadgets with curved surfaces, but the Rice prototypes could change that. "Today, we only have a few form factors of batteries, but this battery can be fabricated to fill the space available," said Singh. The battery is sprayed on in five layers: two current collectors sandwich a cathode, a polymer separator and an anode. "It was difficult optimizing the components in the form of a paint," said Singh. Initial versions were sensitive to moisture and would peel off, but the addition of a polymer and a heat-sealing step solved this problem. The result is a battery that can be sprayed on to plastics, metal and ceramics. In an experiment, Singh's team airbrushed a battery on to nine ceramic bathroom tiles. Each tile represented one battery cell and they were charged with a small solar cell. Connected in parallel, the battery was able to power for six hours a set of LEDs (light-emitting diodes) that spelled out the word "RICE." With patents filed on the process, the team is now looking to further refine the process. "The present work is just a concept of paintable batteries," said Singh. "We chose the materials to match those being used in lithium ion batteries, but we are talking about non-experts making them at home with safer materials."
Poster Comment: This has the potential to become something truly special. Imagine electric cars that are painted with advanced versions of this paint that takes solar charges. Or windmills with the frames and blades painted with this paint. Buildings with this paint on the exterior and poured into the concrete. Even if they never develope it as a complete substitute for other power sources,it will definitely have the potential to serve as a standby charging system and reserve power system. I'm seriously considering investing both of my dollars in this stuff. Subscribe to *Science and technology* Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest #1. To: All, *Economic News*, *Environmental News* (#0) ping "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. #2. To: sneakypete (#0) The technology does not operate in and by itself. And the research about polymers being added is still an issue. Are you familiar with the toxins produced by polymers when stressed over the specified ratings? No? Let's re-paint our homes with Pb based splash. YUMMY!
#3. To: buckeroo (#2) The technology does not operate in and by itself. And the research about polymers being added is still an issue. Buck,this is still early days. It's all still in developement. Are you familiar with the toxins produced by polymers when stressed over the specified ratings? Nope. Don't know a thing about it. Let's re-paint our homes with Pb based splash. YUMMY! I have no idea what that means,but from your tone I assume it would be a bad thing to do. "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. #4. To: sneakypete (#3) We, humans, are energy gluttons. And addressing another fallible technology as opposed to the mushrooming, swelled human population growth that is now over 8Bn people on this planet misses the point of mankind's knowledge altogether. We know there is a serious issue caused directly by human population growth. Meanwhile, an article such as yours (no matter how well intended) is like ignoring the truth. People should wear more condoms PERIOD. There, I fixed over 50% of mankind's misery, today to include potential new energy sources.
#5. To: buckeroo (#4) We know there is a serious issue caused directly by human population growth. Yeah,and we also know that the poor and unskilled are NOT going to voluntarily stop having all the children they can have because they see them as their retirement plan. The ultimate pyramid scheme. The only way to achieve your goals is through mandatory birth control and abortions,with people having to get permits to have a child. I,for one,don't want to live under a government that has that kind of power and authority. "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. #6. To: sneakypete (#5) I,for one,don't want to live under a government that has that kind of power and authority. What do want, sneakypete? Commonsense and religious values/characteristics and educational methods don't fix the issues. You wanna be a victim to some guy in his garage that comes up with the latest home nuclearfusion box?
#7. To: buckeroo (#6) (Edited) What do want, sneakypete? To think we can solve these problems without becoming a police state. One way of doing this is to make birth control mandatory for everybody receiving public aid. If they don't like it,they can get out of public housing and start providing for themselves. You wanna be a victim to some guy in his garage that comes up with the latest home nuclearfusion box? How would population control prevent that from happening? "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. #8. To: sneakypete (#7) How about a much more simpler answer: require voters to actually pass certification before voting for the idiots that have created this monstrousity in the first place. To date, not many have to even show an ID much less pass an English test on the simplest level. If the People keep voting for assholes to let assholes run the government, it is ALL a pot to piss in. And there is no limits on any voting requirements hence, you see a house of cards.
#9. To: buckeroo (#8) require voters to actually pass certification Like a poll tax?
#10. To: A K A Stone (#9) ? Certification is all I am discussing concerning the eligibility to vote in an election within federal polls. What did you do, fall off another roof today?
#11. To: sneakypete (#0) LMFAO First...This is 30 years too late. Second, who's going to pay for the retro fit. third, for the $28 the BBL infrastructure that we've just destroyed with $80-100 the BBL oil. 4th...the instant the electric car takes hold in any way, the Power grid will be crashed... 5th: At 400 ppm you are now living in a 2C degree rise climate change. Runaway is now. See 115 degrees in KC for details...;}
#12. To: buckeroo (#10) LMFAO...Stone is making prefectlly clear sense here and buckaroo doesn't get it.... the mind boggles...;} and don't forget your Health Mandate card as well when go to vote in your new electric car, bucky....;} Jesus, you'll need a box to carry all your shite in to vote....;}
#13. To: All (#11) We won't even be able to do this:
i Quantcast Natural Gas for Automotive Fuel Natural Gas for Automotive Fuel thumbnail It is difficult to say which of the growing number of fuel options will power the cars of the future. But natural gas, given its domestic abundance, low price and lesser carbon footprint, is certainly a contender, at least as far as researchers at the federally funded Argonne National Laboratory are concerned. Some of the same engineers there who developed the batteries now used in electric cars have been tasked with improving natural gas powered engine technologies, thanks to anticipated consumer demand for vehicles powered by something cheaper and greener than gasoline but without the hassles of other alternative fuels. “Our conclusion is that natural gas as a transportation fuel has both adequate abundance and cost advantages that make a strong case to focus interest in the technology as a real game changer in U.S. energy security,” Mike Duoba, an engineer at Argonne’s Transportation Technology Research and Development Center outside of Chicago, told the Talking Points Memo news blog.
Insanity is operating behind the curve of collapse with the Status Quo Ante and expecting to catch up...;}
#14. To: buckeroo (#10) Certification Certification can mean a lot of things. Are you going to certify they know something? Or are you going to certify they are citizens?
#15. To: A K A Stone (#14) Both.
#16. To: buckeroo (#15) Both. Don't think that will ever fly. You fail a test because you didn't know something some bureaucrat deems important? Then you lose your right to vote? I know you have good intentions with that idea. I just don't see it a practical.
#17. To: A K A Stone (#16) Basic English skills tests to ensure that you know how to punch a chad. And appropriate verification that the voter is a US citizen properly qualified and certified to vote in the first place. Fairely minor stuff.
#18. To: buckeroo (#17) Basic English skills tests to ensure that you know how to punch a chad. And appropriate verification that the voter is a US citizen properly qualified and certified to vote in the first place. Ok that sounds reasonable enough.
#19. To: A K A Stone (#18) One time during a US election, I was at a poll waiting to sign my signature. The line I was in was about 10 people deep. The little lady in front of me asked about how all of this works since all of had to sign our names in a roster. I told her it was just standard operating procedure. She got out of line and left the premises. Weird, huh?
#20. To: buckeroo (#19) Yeah it sounds a bit odd. Do you think she was going to try and cheat?
#21. To: A K A Stone (#20) Don't know. Another time I was in a poll line awaiting to sign and vote, some person looks back at me and asked me how to vote on judges. I told her, just throw a dart at that part. She started laffing really hard.
#22. To: buckeroo (#8) How about a much more simpler answer: require voters to actually pass certification before voting for the idiots that have created this monstrousity in the first place. To date, not many have to even show an ID much less pass an English test on the simplest level. I'm all for creating a system where only property owners and veterans are allowed to vote. People who have a vested interest in the survival of our country and political system,and who have done the work necessary to contribute to the country. Our system was originally designed to only allow property owners to vote,and that's the reason why. Getting away from that system was the first attack to destroy our Republic and create mob rule via democracy. "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. #23. To: mcgowanjm (#11) First...This is 30 years too late. The sky has fallen! The sky has fallen! Second, who's going to pay for the retro fit. Nobody. I don't want to shock you,but worn out cars are scrapped every day,and new cars are built everyday. third, for the $28 the BBL infrastructure that we've just destroyed with $80- 100 the BBL oil. 4th...the instant the electric car takes hold in any way, the Power grid will be crashed... Get back with me when the morning meds kick in and you stop babbling nonsense,ok? "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. #24. To: buckeroo (#19) Weird, huh? No. She left because she couldn't legally vote,and didn't want to show ID and sign her name to register because she was afraid of prosecution. "It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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