{"id":10767,"date":"2021-04-15T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=10767"},"modified":"2021-08-06T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:28:30","slug":"3d-printed-proton-conductive-membrane-energy-storage-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/3d-printed-proton-conductive-membrane-energy-storage-devices\/10767\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printed proton-conductive membrane paves way for energy storage devices"},"content":{"rendered":"
The researchers say that this proton-conductive membrane brings the possibility of custom solid-state energy devices closer to reality.<\/p>\n
The results were published in ACS Applied Energy Materials<\/em>, a journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n The greater availability of 3D printing has resulted in more customisable parts at lower costs in applications such as wearable smart devices to autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n “Energy storage devices whose shapes can be tailored enable entirely new possibilities for applications related, for example, to smart wearable, electronic medical devices, and electronic appliances such as drones<\/a>,” commented Kazuyuki Iwase, paper author and assistant professor in professor Itaru Honma’s group at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials at Tohoku University<\/a>. “3D printing is a technology that enables the realisation of such on-demand structures.”<\/p>\n Current 3D printing construction focuses on structural parts adding to a final product’s function, rather than imbuing parts with their own function.<\/p>\n