siliconindia | | October 20169Battery advancements have been slower, and not nearly as exciting as other hardware advancements like the smartphone and the electric carway batteries are developed and manufactured, and they are speeding innovations in areas where many and new types of batteries are needed to power IoT. Batteries of Tomorrow Revolutionary smart devices will demand the custom design of batteries that possess incredible power life, can withstand extreme fluctuations in temperature (-10 to 60 Celsius) and can fit just about anywhere. Because Li-ion batteries can be flammable, compa-nies like BrightVolt are developing and manufacturing batteries that are not only ultra-thin and flexible, but solid state and do not involve liquid Li-ion. This means they can be printed, heated and even laminated onto a range of emerging and exciting devices. We know that one size and chemistry does not fit all new applications. My firm BrightVolt recently designed a custom secondary battery that was hollow and circular, as well as ultra-thin and flexible. We want to give to our customers unique reliable power solutions that fit their products, not the other way around. But we're not stopping there. BrightVolt batteries are also non-toxic, non-corrosive and environmen-tally friendly, unlike Li-ion batteries whose environ-mental impacts can include resource depletion and ecological toxicity.Polymer Matrix Electrolyte (PME) Process Makes This PossibleBrightVolt has created a revolutionary method for man-ufacturing battery cells. This breakthrough is referred to as `The PME Approach'. This method offers a novel method of battery formulation and assembly that sig-nificantly improves battery performance and safety. This proprietary technology allows us to develop safer, smaller, flexible, and more powerful and customizable batteries, more quickly.Briefly, we have developed a proprietary set of elements, Lithium Salt, Polymer and Solvent that mixes them into a single phase which we then interpenetrate the calendared cathode with. This simple but ingenious technology improves the safety, performance and even eases of manufacturing. This unique approach to battery development has been used successfully and repeatedly to commercialize ultra-thin and flexible batteries, with cost-effective manufacturing, and at scale.Unlike most other battery technology innovators who are still in the lab, we are into commercial production. PME has now been used to manufacture more than 10M ultra-thin film batteries that have been deployed in a range of commercial products. Massive OpportunityThese are exciting years for emerging battery technolo-gy. IoT, wearable technology, sensors, medical devices, labels, even e-textiles are major growth areas for ul-tra-thin film and flexible batteries.BI Intelligence also predicted that nearly $6 trillion will be spent on IoT solutions over the next five years. We're going to need a lot of batteries.
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