The battery He has played a leading role in every person’s life. In fact, it has evolved in such a way that there is an alternative today that the famous lithium pieces can retire. From the mobile phone to electric cars, they need these units, by an infinite of electronic inventions, the battery It has become an essential element in modern life.
Despite its performance, however, its presence is also seen as a great environmental problem of the present moment and the obstacle that delays certain technical progress. The industry faces the challenge of replacing batteries From lithium ions for a more flexible and sustainable solution.
Now that this optimum efficiency has been achieved that includes the needs of humanity, it is intended to find equally sustainable options, but light, thin and biodegradable. A reality that seemed impossible to reach until another and new project came in.
This lithium jubilant battery: it turns to the garbage as a raw material
The project that could endanger lithium pieces has to do with batteries elaborated with paper that caused a furore in the first major technological grant of this 2025, the CES De Las Vegas. We are talking about the batteries of FlintA start-up with head office in Singapore.
The company claims that its rechargeable and flexible paper storage units are the ideal substitutes of the current one Lithium ion batteriesWithout giving up the performance they offer. The company hopes to implement its technology into a wide repertoire of devices.
It mainly consists of cellulose, in principle paper. However, its structure is practically the same as what we see in the batteries More common. The role is that the transfer of ions between anode and cathode, which serves the piece.
But in addition to the aesthetic part, the patented chemistry offers more safety, sustainability and profitability. The brand uses a material that consists of cellulose with binders and coatings to have the paper flexibly, but to have it.
The electrodes and electrolytes are another patent of the company to increase the density of the power of his batteries. A device that can mark the industry as much as this unique battery made of fungi.
The waste can be the key to stop, depending on the lithium: this battery is vital
One of the benefits of this project is the possibility to integrate the procedure they have developed into production systems of batteries Traditionally to climb this novelty to a consolidated market and large -scale. Another of his attributes is the rapid elimination.
In contrast to the batteries and batteries conventional, that of Flint They are biologically demolished in six weeks. For example, the equipment transforms them into fertilizers for plants in their offices. This quality achieves that the pieces of Flint They are not yet suitable for permanent devices such as mobile phones, a future that does not exclude the company, such as the Portal records Cnet.
For example these batteries Flexibly the design of devices such as screens and folding mobiles can wear on a different scale. On the other hand, this project can prove its invention so far in various more perishable teams that require lightness and a larger link with the environment, such as biodegradable sensors.
For the analysis of the environment with small chips and robots, even medical material used to deliver medication or to control the evolution of a patient without needing a more invasive intervention or somewhat sustainable equipment.
This battery removes lithium from the scene with waste as the most important material
During the first week of the year, at the fair CES Las Vegas 2025has acquired 2 million financing to continue with the development and marketing of these batteries. With this financial boost, Flint is planning the construction of a pilot production factory in Singapore.
This country does not have enough strength in the battery production market, because it has no resources, such as Kobalt or Lithium. For now, the start-up Negotiates with more than 20 companies from different sectors, such as consumer electronics, defense or spatial applications.
In short, this battery This cellulose uses the first matter can radically ban lithium pieces. It should be noted that the cellulose that uses it can be new or product from the recycling of the paper, so at this last point we can talk about ‘waste’. According to this line, they ensure that the batteries will forever change with the irruption of this source.