Turn paper into power
Theo Boshoff
We thought that this is something all of you need to know about. It’s about the possible future of battery power. My pet hate is running out of battery capacity when I’m off in the middle of nowhere.

But it seems that there is hope, apart from sugar cells and other battery power developments, which we at Digital Life, of course, wholeheartedly support, and it is ‘paper batteries’.

Yip, scientists at Stanford University in California, USA, have successfully turned paper coated with ink made of silver and carbon nanomaterials into a 'paper battery'.

Now this will not only ensure more lightweight devices - think about it, how much of your cellphone’s weight actually lies in the battery – but hopefully also cheaper batteries, as recycled paper can be used to manufacture the batteries which, in turn, could mean we might one day be buying batteries the size of gum sticks.

Furthermore, earlier research has found that silicon nanowires could be used to make batteries ten times as powerful as lithium-ion batteries currently used to power devices such as laptops.