new lithium Jelly battery

[Eodman]

Anyone see the article on the internet about these new batteries. Not available for purchase but looks like they do away with fires. The article has a picture of a battery with a screw put into and claims of no explosion or fires.

Instead of liguid electrolyte they have come up with some sort of jelly!

Also lighter than existing lipos

Interesting --- very interesting!

[ilovethis]

Jelly-filled phone batteries keep up with you
By: Eric Smalley SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 4:00 AM PDT
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A thin, flexible lithium ion battery like this could give your next phone more staying power.
(Credit: Leeds University)
Replace the insides of a lithium ion battery with a jelly-like goo and you get inexpensive, safe, powerful, lightweight batteries that can power everything from cell phones to electric cars.
These solid-state lithium ion batteries are just around the corner. A gel electrolyte from Leeds University in the U.K. is ready for prime time and the university is looking for commercial partners to use the electrolyte for the next generation of portable batteries. Gel electrolytes have been percolating in laboratories around the world for years, and other research outfits, notably NASA, have recently been offering to license out their technologies.
A key advantage of the Leeds electrolyte is the way it's made. It's extruded in continuous sheets like fresh pasta or fruit leather. The result is a thin, flexible battery that can be stacked in layers to make batteries that hold more energy than today's batteries of the same size and weight. Even better, the pasta-like process means batteries that are cheaper to manufacture.
These batteries are also considerably safer than today's lithium ion batteries. The extruded gel, unlike the usual liquid electrolytes found in these batteries, doesn't leak. In fact, a gel battery won't leak even if you nail it to the wall. Leak-proof batteries are a major plus for electric cars.
Other possible uses for these thin, flexible batteries include powering smartcards and storing energy from renewable power sources like solar and wind.
Better smartphone batteries are sorely needed. Video, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, near-field communications, augmented reality, apps that stay on in the background, apps that phone home every few minutes... It all adds up to a huge drain on today's phone batteries.
Here's hoping batteries with the Leeds electrolyte (or other solid-state lithium ion batteries emerging from the R&D pipeline) come to a smartphone near you soon.
(Via BBC News)

[Boaterguy]

I see a flexible phone coming in the near future, they have flex- pcb's and flexible monitors, if only a flexible touchscreen were made, you could roll up your phone and put it in your pocket

[Chenige]

Already done. Whoops that was a scifi show I saw a few years ago. Screens rolled up into a thin cylinder shape.