Scientists at Brown have created a new battery by combining the theory behind a regular battery with the capacitor. Batteries have the capacity, but little power, while capacitors are the the direct oppposite. By creating a mix of the substance polypyrrole and other conducting chemical substances they were able to create two charged polarities. They covered a plastic film with gold at each end and then created the plus and minus ends by putting the polypyrrole mix on top of the film together a two substances, one at each end, that altered the mix’ conducting properties. The two ends were then connected, but isolated by a paper membrane and voila; they had created a battery with both capacity and power
Its not the first time scientists have used polymers to created batteries or control currents and there is most likely very few who doubt that the future of batteries will be organic such and not electronic.
