Scientists Use Nanotech to Print Paper Batteries

Scientists at Stanford University in California have successfully turned paper coated with ink made of silver and carbon nano-materials into a "paper battery" that holds promise for new types of lightweight, high-performance energy storage.

The same feature that helps ink adhere Thurs paper allows it to hold onto the single-walled carbon nanotubes and silver nanowire films.

Earlier research found that silicon nano-wires could be used to make batteries for 10 times as powerful as lithium-ion batteries now Used to power devices such as laptop computers.

"Taking advantage of the paper mature technology, low cost, light and high-performance energy-storage are realized by using conductive paper as current collectors and electrodes," the scientists said in research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The battery could be useful in Powering electric or hybrid vehicles, electronics would make lighter and longer lasting, and might even lead someday Thurs paper electronics, the scientists said.Read Morehttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579709,00.html

Scientists Use Nanotech to Print Paper Batteries