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Material's Printed Batteries Put Power in Every Nook and Cranny (spectrum.ieee.org)
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“Things are shrinking, so we’re shrinking around it,” Elias says. “Electronics are becoming embedded, consolidated, optimized, and batteries are the only part of that equation that’s being left behind.”

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

They‘ve been using oddly shaped batteries for phones for probably more than a decade now and no, they‘re not good for repairability at all.