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Thin, Flexible Batteries Set to Become $400 Million Market in 2025

Flexible battery growth will likely be driven mainly by enabling new products.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Batteries have not been a triumph of rapid innovation. From lead acid, nickel-cadmium, to nickel-metal-hydride and lithium-ion batteries, the development of batteries has significantly lagged many other components. For example, lithium-ion batteries, which are the mostly successful commercial battery system nowadays, have only seen a 1.6 times improvement in energy density over the last 24 years. Not exactly a follower of Moore’s law like progress. It is already very optimistic to expect the ene...

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