Thin film batteries come out flexible zinc manganese dioxide

Recently, according to the Physicist's Organization Network, with the rise of wearable electronic devices, flexible thin-film thin-film batteries have increasingly become the focus of research by scientists. New technologies, including organic semiconductor thin film transistors, have emerged, but due to limitations such as stability can not be applied to the actual product. Researchers proposed a new program - zinc manganese dioxide batteries. A major driving force behind the development of thin-film printed batteries is that they can be produced through a production line that manufactures the remaining components of flexible electronic equipment to increase integration and reduce manufacturing costs. Compared with lithium-ion alkaline batteries, the raw materials are more environmentally friendly, without sealing, the cost is lower. Alkaline chemical cells are manufactured using a stencil onto a fibrous substrate that is flexible and can drive flexo printed circuits and meet the performance characteristics they require. In the study, researchers used a special manufacturing process to connect 10 cells in series to form a series circuit with a peak voltage of 14 volts and a capacity of 0.8 milliamperes. This new thin-film battery can be made from the currently commercially available polyvinyl alcohol or polyethylene cellulose film using a 100-μm-thick film to isolate and make zinc-based and manganese dioxide electrodes their substrates. A hydrophobic fluoropolymer solution (Teflon AF) was printed between the two electrodes to reduce electrolyte migration and contact with electrodes in other adjacent cells. Different unit batteries are connected with a silver-containing printing ink. In order to determine its performance in a real printed circuit, the battery was subjected to tests similar to those in real-world conditions. The results show that the voltage waveform of the circuit remains around 13 volts in 10 millisecond measurements. After 20 minutes, no change beyond this amplitude was detected, indicating that the new battery has a more stable power supply capability.