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Transparent battery powers the way to translucent devices

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Researchers fabricate electrodes that are too small to see.

Flexible, transparent lithium-ion batteries have been made by a team of researchers at Stanford University in California, a technological leap that could spawn see-through electronic gadgets such as translucent iPads.

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  1. Yang, Y. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102873108 (2011).

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  1. Duncan Graham-Rowe
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Graham-Rowe, D. Transparent battery powers the way to translucent devices. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.439

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