Flexible Battery- Their Characteristic Shape Even Against Continual Bending or Twisting
Flexible battery |
A flexible battery is a type of battery
designed to be flexible and conformal, unlike traditional rigid ones. Flexible
batteries can be folded and twisted at will, including primary and secondary
batteries. They can maintain their characteristic shape even when continuously
bent or twisted. Flexible batteries are key power source to enable vast
electronic devices, leading to additional requirements, including stretchable,
twistable, and bendable, to adapt mechanical deformation under the working
conditions.
The increasing interest in portable or
flexible electronics has led to the development of flexible battery, which can
be implemented in various electronic products such as wearable electronics,
smart cards, flexible displays, novelty packaging, & drug delivery patches.
Moreover, flexible batteries can be easily used in various small sized devices
such as smartphones, watch, health monitoring device, and others. Thus, demand
is expected to increase especially in the consumer electronics, healthcare, and
other industries.
According
to Coherent Market Insights, The global Flexible
Battery Market was valued at US$ 102.3 Mn in 2020 and is expected to
reach US$ 574.0 Mn by 2028 at a CAGR of 24.0% between 2021 and 2028.
Flexible battery offers the potential to
produce battery products that bend and stretch, providing a wider range of
battery designs and applications for energy storage devices. Furthermore, the
eco-friendly nature and ease of applications are major advantages of flexible
battery. Flexible batteries have been the research of interest due to their
potential to enable electronic products bendable, adaptable, and comfortable. This
in turn stimulates the development of wearable electronics, roll-up displays,
implantable medical robots, and Internet of things (IoT).
Thus, with the increasing demand for thin
& flexible batteries in electronic devices and growing miniaturization of
electronic products, the demand for flexible batteries is also increasing with
a rapid pace. For example, in December 2021, researchers from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), US developed world's longest flexible
battery. It's a rechargeable lithium-ion device/battery, which
can be woven and washed, and could provide power for fiber-based electronic
devices and sensors, according to the researchers.
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