Flexible lithium battery can be folded like paper

A 13 cm square black “thin paper” wrapped in a pen is actually a flexible lithium battery electrode that can be folded and bent freely. When the battery capacity reaches 1000 mA, it is almost 4 times the capacity of the Apple Watch battery. Yesterday, the founder and CEO of Wuhan Atommergy New Material Technology Co., Ltd. demonstrated their latest samples of the company. He introduced that the product has undergone several rounds of tests, and various performances are further improved according to customer requirements. During the year, the first generation of products will be launched.

Wearable devices are considered to be the direction of the future of electronic products, such as Google's smart glasses, Apple's smart watches just launched. One of the eight projects specifically supported by the National Development and Reform Commission in 2013 is support for the R&D and industrialization of wearable devices in the mobile Internet.

“No matter how smart and lightweight the device is, it cannot be separated from the battery.” Xie Ming said that the wearable device has high requirements for the high capacity and flexibility of lithium batteries. For example, when the flexible battery is placed in the watch strap of a smart watch, Can greatly enhance the equipment life. At present, the lithium battery used for wearable devices is generally low in capacity, lacks circulation, and is not flexible enough. For example, an ordinary smart watch rechargeable battery has a usage time of about 24 hours. If more functions are enabled, the power consumption is increased. It will increase dramatically, so that it needs to be charged twice a day before it can be used normally.

In the world, research and industrialization of flexible batteries have just started, and most of them still remain at the conceptual product stage.

In April of this year, at the “2015 China Lithium Battery Industry and Technology Summit Forum” held by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China, the flexible battery samples demonstrated by the company received great attention. Lenovo Research Institute of Lenovo Group expressed the intention of cooperation and a large number of venture capital institutions. Have contacted, but Xie Ming said that the entrepreneurial team temporarily does not want to be involved in too much effort. The current focus is to push the conceptualized flexible battery into the market as soon as possible. Around the flexible battery, the company has already been granted a national invention patent, and two patents have entered the stage of substantive examination.

As a Ph.D. from the Michigan Technological University in the United States, Ximing began looking for business opportunities for flexible battery industrialization in the United States since 2009. In 2012, he established the company in Optics Valley and successively obtained the sixth batch of “Hubei 3551 Optical Talent Plan” in Donghu High-tech Zone. Donghu High-tech Zone SME Innovation and Venture Fund, Wuhan “Qingtong Project”, and Hubei Province “Hundred Talents Program” funded projects. He said that now is the best time for overseas students to return to China to start their own businesses. "I hope that through hard entrepreneurial confirmation, my own technology is a good technology that can promote progress and create wealth."