Nanotechnology can light fabric and paper into the battery
An engineer has discovered a cheap and efficient production of lightweight paper battery and super capacitor, and conductive textiles, and extended the method, called "e-textiles (eTextiles)", the textile can store energy, while preserving plain paper or fabric mechanical properties,
Batteries and super capacitors store energy by electrostatic, not chemical.
Yi Cui of Stanford University engineers to plain paper or fabric soaked in a special kind of ink into the nanoparticles to develop e-textiles.
Cui's team and even for their inventions conceived many of the functional use. May one day save the future of home energy use wallpaper. Gadget lovers can connect the gadget to wherever their T-shirts, to the portable gadget charging devices. Textiles can also be used to produce energy mobile display clothing, production response function with high-performance sports clothing, and wear-ability with heavily armed soldiers.
Development of these high-tech products is the main component of the human eye can not see the nanostructures, nanostructures can be assembled, so they have the conductive feature, this structure may be assembled on the market some of the power storage device to provide solutions to problems.
Cui team experimental device type of nanoparticles used in products expected to function according to changes - lithium cobalt oxide is a compound commonly used in batteries, and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are used for super-capacitors.
Cui said: "Energy storage is a very old area of research, super capacitors, batteries - these are old things. How true to the revolutionary impact in this area? This requires a lot of different ways of thinking."
Mitsubishi Electric open thin-film silicon solar cells development of
Mitsubishi Electric in February 16th, 2010 at Tokyo's "research and development results conference", disclosed the company's first thin-film silicon solar cell development situation. The current trial of 5mm square thin-film silicon solar cell stabilization process before the conversion efficiency of 14.8%. Mitsubishi Electric said confidently, "The results of the same area near the KANEKA products have 15% efficiency." Measurements for the Mitsubishi Electric to implement, practical date has been set.
Mitsubishi Electric The trial of thin-film silicon solar cells, equipped with a three-layer absorption of different power generation layer. Layers did not disclose specific materials used, but uses a combination of amorphous silicon-like materials and micro-crystalline silicon materials.
To achieve 14.8% conversion efficiency to contribute to that loss can be reduced levels of the components and design techniques to improve the sealing effect of light transparent conductive film of the bump forming technology. The technology is the use of semiconductor and LCD panel technology to develop.
The thin-film silicon solar cells from the end of 07 cutting-edge technology at Mitsubishi Electric Research Institute (Amagasaki) began to develop. Laboratory equipment prototype 90mm maximum square thin-film silicon solar cells. The company plans to further expand and improve area efficiency.
In the large-scale solar cell manufacturers in Japan, Sharp and Sanyo Electric are ready for mass production or mass production of thin film silicon solar cells. Kyocera and Mitsubishi Electric believes that the "thin-film silicon solar cells more than the superiority of silicon solar cells", it has been working on silicon solar cells. This time, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed thin film silicon solar cells on specific developments in the future, more attention Kyocera's move.
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