World's Smallest Battery Can Power Computer with the Size of a Grain of Dust (IMAGE)

Chemnitz University of Technology

World's Smallest Battery Can Power Computer with the Size of a Grain of Dust

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Dr. Minshen Zhu (l.) and Prof. Oliver G. Schmidt present the world's smallest battery in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. It's a groundbreaking technology for submillimeter scale energy storage techniques. In the picture Prof. Schmidt shows a flexible microelectronic chip that can be equipped with a large number of such tiny batteries.

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Jacob Müller/TU Chemnitz

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