Flexible thin-film printed batteries with 3D printed substrates
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsNaveen Chopra, Gregory McGuire, Edward G. Zwartz
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Abstract
A method for printing a flexible printed battery is disclosed. For example, the method includes printing, via a three-dimensional (3D) printer, a first substrate of the flexible thin-film printed battery, printing a first current collector on the first substrate, printing a first layer on the first current collector, printing, via the 3D printer, a second substrate, printing a second current collector on the second substrate, printing a second layer on the second current collector, and coupling the first substrate and the second substrate around a paper separator membrane moistened with an electrolyte that is in contact with the first layer and the second layer.
Claims10
A method for printing a flexible thin-film printed battery, comprising:
- printing, via a three-dimensional (3D) printer, a cathode substrate of the flexible thin-film printed battery;
- printing a cathode current collector on the cathode substrate;
- printing a cathode layer on the cathode current collector;
- printing, via the 3D printer, an anode substrate;
- printing an anode current collector on the anode substrate;
- printing an anode layer on the anode current collector;
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- coupling the cathode substrate and the anode substrate around a paper separator membrane moistened with an electrolyte that is in contact with the cathode layer and the anode layer.
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