These bendy batteries may power the future of small tech
Someday soon, cities will be wired with hundreds of tiny sensors to track everything from pollution to traffic to weather. 5G cell boxes will broadcast blazing fast wireless internet capable of downloading a full movie to a phone in seconds. Advanced wearable sensors that could be woven into a shirt will track your gait, heart rate, and even the chemicals in your sweat.
Imprint Energy, based in Alameda, is one of the companies working on solid-state flexible zinc batteries. Co-founder and CEO Christine Ho started working in lithium-ion batteries as a student researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, but realized that the world would need an alternative, one that didn’t rely on mining that takes place outside the U.S. , ZinCore, that packs 10 times more power than previous models into a cell just one millimeter wide.
“Batteries are often the largest real estate item on a smart label,” said Ho. “Ours can be almost invisible because it’s so small.” But Imprint’s ambitions aren’t just to stay miniature.
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