Mobile phone will be as thin as credit card, the computer screen can be rolled like newspapers because the birth of a new material.
Natasha Shirshova, a member of the team, taking photos with plastic discharge. Photo: David Paker.
Dr Emile Greenhalgh - a specialist in Aviation Science at the University Experimental London, England - he declared with his colleagues succeeded in manufacturing plastic electrical area. It’s not really a battery, which is an electrochemical double layer capacitor - like the convergence that we often see in the circuit.
Greenhalgh Productsis a sample group of thin plastic sheet has an area of about 13 cm square and can load power from conventional sources. It was created by two layers of carbon fiber. These two layers of plastic covered against conductivity. In between two layers is a layer of fiber optics. When current flows through the plastic, the electrons (e) moving from one layer to carbon layer to layer of carbon fiber optics and other. Migration process that will create positive and negative.
Tests showed the full power rechargeable, plastic lighting an LED bulbs in 20 minutes.
Car manufacturers Volvo 4.2 million funding project Research by Dr. Greenhalgh. Its goal is to create a new power source for cars to run using both gasoline and electricity.
“We think the future vehicles can get electricity from the roof or through plastic door that we manufacture,” Greenhalgh said.
Greenhalgh confirms new plastic load and discharge faster than traditional batteries, and do not use chemicals should have a longer life.
The team want to use it to replace the floor and prevent luggage of the Volvo car production. If they succeed, Volvo can shrink the size of batteries in hybrid cars and reduce the weight of the vehicle. As is the weight of the vehicle fuel consumption per km as low.
Applications for plastic analysis power did not stop there. According Greenhalghe in the future we can buy the mobile phones as thin as a credit card because they do not need batteries anymore. The laptop computer will work longer now because they can get electricity from your skin. The company also produced the computer screen as thin as paper and the user can scroll and bring them.
“Nobody has created a material like that. Within 10 years it can replace traditional batteries, Greenhalgh confirmed.
