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4.6 Updates
4.6.1 Micro batteries research
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor William P. King led
a mechanical science and engineering group that has, it is claimed, developed
incredibly powerful micro-batteries (source: King, Nature Communications,
April 2016).
These micro-batteries produce more power than the best supercapacitors and
could drive new applications in radio communications and electronics. With
currently available power sources, users have had to choose between power
and energy. For applications that need a lot of power, like broadcasting a radio
signal over a long distance, capacitors can release ...