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01 2020-09
Flexible Batteries Enable More Space in Foldable Phones.
Foldable phones are gaining much attention in the market recently. Just in this year, new patents on foldable phones have come out from Xiaomi and Samsung. Samsung released the Galaxy Fold and Galaxy Z Flip, two different shapes of foldable screen smartphones, each with a dual battery. -
07 2020-09
New, flexible solar cells that can be deployed in space.
On December 27, 2019, a flexible, solar cell system based on shape memory polymer composites (SMPCs) developed by Professor Leng Jingsong and associates at HIT (Harbin Institute of Technology) successfully flew into space. -
14 2020-10
?Orange peel is used to extract valuable metals from used batteries.
Singaporean scientists have discovered that these metals can be recycled through a more environmentally friendly technology--the main ingredient being orange peel waste.