Stanford prof pops lid on paint-on battery tech

Chortle...

Another decisive blow for the Reg Sub-Heads writing team. You make the Sun look decidedly amateur guys.

"the paint can handle very rapid discharge rates"

Huummmm.... electric fences that you simply paint onto walls? I like that idea... maybe that'll stop people key-ing cars...

I guess it's all about the surface area.

Just like black-powder.

The smaller the particle the quicker to discharge, and charge, though overall capacity may be the same it doesn't last as long.

Sounds good, especially interesting is the places where this can be applied when compared with a normal battery.

Though I find it hard to believe that the description of 'one-dimension' can be taken seriously.

ttfn

PH - cos her personality's more likely to be one dimensional, though her physical side is clearly operating in all 4 (easily) observable dimensions.

"Because paper is light"

No, actually, paper isn't light. A single sheet of paper may be light, but paper is basically wood and it's heavy. Maybe he's always had his students to carry boxes of paper to the photocopier for him?

Not a geometry professor then?

If it's one dimensional then I suppose you attach an electrode at each end, but wouldn't a cross-section of zero mean an infinitely high internal impedence, meaning a current of less than one electron over any time period you care to name?

All matter in this universe.....

is 3 dimensional, with the possible exception of some people I have met. That must be a translation error for nano-scale flat. I am sure it has at least the height, depth, and width of an electron...

I'll be painting some on me pint to keep the unwanted hands off of it..

It's what?

One-dimensional? Then it truly is the most remarkable invention of all time! An imaginary mathematical construct made real! Anything one-dimensional would have zero mass and, of course, it would be invisible. You could stack an infinite number of them in your shirt pocket.

The world's energy problems have been solved!