LG brings battery flexibility to new heights
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The spiral anode is manufactured by wrapping copper wires around a cylindrical rod (Image: LG Chem)
The cable-like flexible batteries being developed by LG are achieving promising performance (Image: LG Chem)
Article Summary
We've covered our fair share of flexible electronics, but as far as bendability goes, the flexible batteries developed by LG are truly raising the bar by a couple of notches. The Korean company is working on a battery that is shaped like a cable, and can be bent, tied, or even woven into fine sheets with almost no loss in discharge performance.
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