SBIR Phase II: Integration of Custom, Printable Batteries in Robotic Technologies

SBIR 第二阶段：定制、可打印电池在机器人技术中的集成

• 批准号: 1256631
• 负责人: Christine Ho
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Imprint Energy, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Integration; Custom

This Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) Phase II project will expand the performance of a novel zinc battery chemistry which leverages a high conductivity polymer electrolyte, and further characterize the battery system to increase its commercial attractiveness to interested customers and partners, particularly for small portable and flexible electronics applications. The novel zinc battery chemistry is an ultrathin, flexible and rechargeable battery technology. This battery chemistry utilizes an air-stable, earth-abundant, robust, and non-lithium materials set that is manufacturable by print-based processing and is scalable to large dimensions with sheet or web manufacturing. The goals of this project are to increase understanding of this new battery chemistry, demonstrate and characterize its unique flexibility, scale the technology to pilot-level manufacturing, and improve its commercially relevant performance properties. The broader impacts/commercial potential of this project are diverse. They include the establishment of new battery chemistry and manufacturing paradigm which can be disruptive to markets requiring novel device functionality and form factors. This technology also allows for significant reduction of the cost and environmental impact of batteries for growing and potentially ubiquitous application. Lastly, this new approach to battery manufacturing presents the opportunity to repurpose the printing industry to produce next generation batteries. Despite considerable prior work in the field of batteries, there is a large mismatch between available battery technologies and the performance, form factor, cost, and manufacturing requirements needed to serve as a platform battery system to power flexible and wearable electronics, robotics, sensors, energy harvesters, displays, and wireless electronics. The novel battery technology being developed in this project can alleviate these constraints and potentially revolutionize the portable electronic market to achieve new form factors, capabilities, and spur adoption into new application areas.

这项小型企业创新研究计划（SBIR）II期项目将扩大新型锌电池化学的性能，该锌电池化学反应利用高电导率聚合物电解质，并进一步表征电池系统以提高其对感兴趣的客户和合作伙伴的商业吸引力，尤其是针对小型便携式和灵活的电子产品。新颖的锌电池化学是一种超薄，灵活且可充电的电池技术。这种电池化学利用了可通过基于印刷的处理制造的空气稳定，丰富和非锂材料集，可扩展到具有板或网络制造的大尺寸。该项目的目标是提高对这种新电池化学反应的理解，展示并表征其独特的灵活性，将技术扩展到试验级制造，并提高其商业上相关的性能性能。该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是多种多样的。其中包括建立新的电池化学和制造范式，这些范式可能会破坏需要新的设备功能和形态的市场。这项技术还可以大大降低电池对生长和潜在无处不在的应用的成本和环境影响。最后，这种新的电池制造方法为重新利用印刷行业生产下一代电池提供了机会。尽管在电池领域进行了相当多的事务，但可用的电池技术与性能，外形，成本和制造要求之间存在很大的不匹配，可以用作平台电池系统，以供电灵活和可穿戴的电子设备，机器人，传感器，能源收获器，显示器，显示器和无线电子产品。该项目中正在开发的新型电池技术可以减轻这些限制，并有可能彻底改变便携式电子市场，以实现新的形式，功能，并刺激采用新的应用领域。