New Flexible Lithium-ion Battery developed by Panasonic

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With all the negative exploding and bulging battery articles these days, it’s time for some pretty cool news on the lithium-ion battery front. It turns out that Panasonic has been working on a thin, twistable, bendable, Flexible Lithium-ion battery for use in card devices, devices attached to the human body, smart clothing, wristband wearable devices, and more.

Panasonic’s Flexible Lithium-ion Battery has the following features:

  • The battery can maintain its characteristic even with repeated bending and twisting.
  • The battery contributes to longer life of devices as it retains charging and discharging characteristics even with repeated bending and twisting.
  • The battery can be used reliably for devices attached to the human body because of excellent safety.

The batteries have a thickness of just 0.55mm (0.022 inches), and can retain their characteristics even after repeatedly getting bent into a radius of 25mm or twisted to an angle of 25 degrees. In addition, Panasonic’s testing has shown that the batteries have an 80% initial capacity retention based on a test that consists of a charge and discharge cycle followed by either bending or twisting a total of 1,000 times. The company is using a newly-developed laminated outer body and internal structure that keeps the batteries from leaking or overheating during repeated twisting and bending.

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Panasonic’s new Flexible Lithium-ion Batteries.

Given the size, they are fairly low capacity as well, with capacities of 17.5mAh, 40mAh, and 60mAh depending on the size. The smallest has dimensions of only 28.5mm x 39.0mm and weight just 0.7 grams, while the largest has dimensions of 40.0mm x 65.0mm and weighs just 1.9 grams.

The batteries will be on display at CEATEC JAPAN 2016 from October 4 to 7 at Makuhari Messe, with samples for product development being shipped out at the end of October.

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