Researchers Create Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery

[Valoric0]

Now we just need to make LED's transparent, along with other internals & we've got the future of screen technology! So pumped that that.

[frizstyler]

@Valoric0 OLED screens are flexible,hair-thin and transparent several years now. it seems impossible to make a whole transparent phone,but they sure will do it sometime

[mikhaelfiraz]

Samsung Galaxy Skin

[Piotrek7654321]

I would rather prefer a more powerful battery.

[chriszeng8]

Transparent iPhone, iPad, iMac...

[militantmindset]

Great technology but please for the love of god dont make a transparent cellphone i lose mine enough as it is!

[Scitech101]

Problem:

Lithium batteries like to go boom.

[aclonedsmurf]

"has any one seen that battery I just had..... Oh... right...."

[monstergarage2]

Lol this will work good once silicon wires is finished for high speed data transfer

[Nullstr1ng]

I like transparent things!!

*devilously lauhing*

[jamesnithin]

steve jobs will pay em REAAAAL GOOOOOOD!

[Mugrs]

The transmittance is only about 60% for the full battery, so it is not fully transparent.Then this is only for one layer. No one talks about capacity, maybe because it is incredibly small and nowhere near what a cellphone would use.

And talking about transparent cell phones is stupid, because there are many more components that go into a cellphone. And even it it was possible the practical advantage of a transparent cellphone eludes me. Better come up with a proper application then some hype.

[sortie39]

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

[TheModificatioNation]

i would like a transparent screen but awesome idea guys this will be useful in lots of applications, keep up the good work

[golordofming]

and how does this make cellphones faster and have longer battery life, which are iphone user's nightmare.

[Ou8y2k2]

wonder what that wanker morrissey has to say about this.

[ryandrums1001]

the two top rated comments are totally opposite from one another lol

[VengefulRonin]

Damn right I'd like to have a transparent cell phone.

[Cti90210]

Sg000001- you are looser

[sg000001]

It seems that Stanford university has grabed smart Asian guys and put them into a basement creating nice stuff for them. With a cool T-shirt as bonus.

[tmoulvi123]

yeah transparent phones! fuck space!!....... that's sarcasm btw

[qu3ter]

Transparent Lithium-ion batteries, next: invisible batteries XD

[hawbo156]

Im sorry for this but, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT EHR.E.D IS?? hahaha

[Aerlenbach]

Why would anyone want a transparent iphone?

[HappyApplesauce]

Invisible + iPhone = "god... where did I put my phone?!?"

[badspy]

@HappyApplesauce It's not invisible, just transparent

[RedHatExpress]

Chinese technology rules..;) lol..

[alextpf]

nice, but, will it blend?

[MLfreakish]

what university are they from?

[hawbo156]

@MLfreakish Haha , that was a joke wasn't it?

[Dihan22]

it can reduce the size of phone/ipad by having the protective screen as a battery? that could possibly mean a flexible ipad device

[mattysimsoficial]

Thats really neat

[ImAllFact]

I call this witchcraft!!

[giakumiskrikos]

IPHONE BATTERY!!!!!

[kendel1224]

battery can be the cover now! :D

[omgitsBenjamin]

I'd like Motorola to come back and make a transparent Razr. Call it the RazrX (for X-ray, ie: see-through)

[eightysevenf]

that's a lot of stanford product placement.

[DigitalBeatsMX]

transparent cellphone? if cellphones already get lost, dont you think a transparent one would be way harder to find? ill stick with my old nokia cellphone that has the snake game :D

[Ithrial007]

Maybe you could use this to power an electronic flexible "paper" screen, think a newspaper that you hold in your hands or a flyer that has a video playing on it! I think I've seen demos of things similar but they were not quite flexible as this seems to allow it to be!

[iToasterman]

Transparent battery? GTFO. I don't want transparency, i want a 2x2 cm battery to hold 8 amps at 3.7 volts for my cell phone, i wont be charging for years >:D

[VonDenHottentotten]

Am I the only one connecting this technology with holographic data storage?

You might want to sit together with GE. :)

[tylersmyler]

this is incredible

[maisteri]

Can anyone tell me even one useful application for this?

[RTRVII]

@maisteri one million? Cause there are really a lot.

[fratstar6969]

@maisteri are you racist or something? The man said transparent cell phones! How can you not understand him. Shaking my head...

[buttsseymore]

@maisteri flat cellphone

[maisteri]

@buttsseymore These wouldn't be any thinner than ordinary batteries. In fact, to retain the same capacity they'd have to make them twice as thick.

[MicroHive]

@maisteri thinner phones by replacing part of the screen with this transparent battery?

[SteveDungeon]

@maisteri fully transparent touch-screen cellphones in the future

[AGrandt]

@SteveDungeon That's great, unless you are sitting in public doing things you'd rather have remain private.

[SteveDungeon]

@AGrandt It is rather easy to change the opacity of a transparent surface, if you use a layered layout one the them could be transparent (some kind of metallic oxide for instance) but with let's say a given electric signal, could change opacity or even color, there are already a lot of materials with that properties, most of them change color by means of temperature change, others use electrical signals. The possibilities are endless...

[rehmsmeyer]

@maisteri Did you listen to the whole video? Or did it confuse you so much that you could not see the application for this technology.

[maisteri]

@rehmsmeyer I think you missed the short but important word "useful" in my original message.

[MRFRACOLLA]

@maisteri iPhone 5 Transparent

[PADDYDETHECUS]

@maisteri military applications

[raisword]

@maisteri transparent iphone/mp4/ipad

[TheBraveGunner]

@maisteri Contacts with built in cameras or something?

[gamer1xbox360]

@maisteri transparent iphone and lots of devices

[pichukiku]

@maisteri Same question with you man :))

[KrissernD]

@maisteri

Super-thin transparent cellphones. Border less transparent glass screens.

[maisteri]

@KrissernD How does this help make cellphones thinner?

[KrissernD]

@maisteri

I didn't mean to imply that they do. But now that you mention it, the battery in the video is so thin compared to conventional ones that it would help.

[samsherbert]

@maisteri LED lights, TVs, electronic billboards?

[golordofming]

this is the same guy who made the batteries with nanowire as electrodes and made a big deal of it few years ago, no follow-up good news heard since then... So tired of flashy useless stuff.

[golordofming]

@maisteri

this is the same guy who made the batteries with nanowire as electrodes and made a big deal of it few years ago, no follow-up good news heard since then... So tired of flashy useless stuff.

[PrEmoEffect]

@maisteri I don't think they stressed the right advantage. Being made of PDMS, the battery is much more likely to be bio-compatible, fit for surgical implants.

[ctx911]

@maisteri combine this with the AMOLED from samsun screen and we get harry potter newspaper

[unam112]

@maisteri for the new phone samsung galaxy skin...check it out

[TheRealNici]

@maisteri completely transparent devices, just looks cool.

[JohnDieselD]

@maisteri Flexible mobile cellphones.

[maisteri]

@JohnDieselD How does transparent battery help you build flexible cellphones?

[JohnDieselD]

@maisteri Because, if you watch the video carefully, the battery is also flexible.

[maisteri]

@JohnDieselD Transparency is the great innovation here, not flexibility. We have had flexible batteries for ages.

[liamwazhere]

@maisteri none

[Dani01c]

@maisteri sure, the samsung galaxy skin.. search for it..

[maisteri]

@Dani01c Samsung Galaxy Skin isn't transparent...

[Dani01c]

@maisteri its no transparent, but it needs to have a small and flexible battery like this one

[maisteri]

@Dani01c Transparency is the great innovation here, not flexibility. We have had flexible batteries for ages.

[Dani01c]

@maisteri who said the innovation is flexibility? you asked for a useful application for this and I told you one......

[Tudox101]

No wonder China is going past USA in economy soon...

[brockb6]

@Tudox101 They already went pass the USA...

[LanceWinslow5]

Extremely brilliant, great work, so many applications, this is totally awesome, mega-cool - way to go guys!