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Brunel 3D prints world first wearable battery for charging on the go

手机,笔记本电脑,电动汽车……很大程度上取决于便携式功率。机场,火车站甚至快餐店都注意到了这一趋势,安装了供人们快速充电的站点,然后继续前进。电力银行也已成为任何巡回演出的必备品,许多公司正在争夺以最低成本为客户提供最佳电力的方法。

想象一下,如果您可以触手可及的所有这些力量,或者更精确地缠绕在手腕上。

Using a souped-up desktop FFF 3D printer, researchers of the清洁电子研究小组伦敦在布鲁内尔大学(Brunel University)有3D印刷的低成本,灵活的电池,可用于可穿戴的硅胶带。

根据布鲁内尔(Brunel)博士候选人和图书馆团队成员米拉德·阿雷尔(Milad Areir)的说法,“这是第一次通过3D打印制作的灵活超级电容器,包括其所有组件,”

“我们的技术将所有机器与一台机器一起分为一个过程。”

SuperCapictor 3D打印过程的设置和示意图在伦敦布鲁内尔大学开发。图像通过材料科学与工程:B期刊
SuperCapictor 3D打印过程的设置和示意图在伦敦布鲁内尔大学开发。图像通过材料科学与工程:B期刊

How supercapacitors are made

Batteries, or supercapacitors, can be made using a range of methods both in and outside 3D printing. Selective laser melting (SLM) methods have proved especially successful at producing them, but the process is not cost effective, nor does it allow the addition of multiple materials to make the batteries flexible. Outside of additive, Areir explains, “The most popular way to produce them is screen printing, but with that you can’t print the frame of the supercapacitor on silicone.”

Making haste with paste

Brunel处的柔性超级电容器制造是通过挤出硅胶,银,热化合物和糊状形式的电解质凝胶来完成的。根据Areir的说法,通过将所有这些元素纳入该技术,“一定会节省昂贵材料的时间和成本。”

Layers of Brunel flexi-battery. Image via Materials Science and Engineering: B journal
Layers of Brunel flexi-battery. Image via Materials Science and Engineering: B journal

Using paste material is also the way researchers at VTT Technical Centre of Finland were able to createan electronic dressing to help heal and monitor skin wounds.

能源的未来

After lab tests of four 3D printed devices, researchers at Brunel find that the flexible battery demonstrated “an excellent electrical capacitance performance for different combination circuits.”

Areir很乐观,该技术可能有一天可以找到商业应用程序,并补充说:“将来可以用于手机,例如,如果手机电池已经死了,您可以将手机插入超级电容器腕带中,并且可以采取行动作为助推器背包,提供足够的力量到达下一个充电点。”

对下一代储能设备开发开发的其他领先研究,包括award winning technique from researchers at Harvard University,使用3D打印来制作锂离子微生物。

正如布鲁内尔(Brunel)研究中的方便图表中所强调的那样,3D印刷石墨烯还针对能源存储功能进行了研究。Brunel的研究可用于read online for free材料科学与工程:Bjournal. It is co-authored by Milad Areir, Yanmeng Xu, David Harrison and John Fyson.

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Featured image shows charging wristbands developed at Brunel University London. Photo via Brunel University London

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