Flexible printed batteries used in applications ranging from skin treatment patches to parcel tracking could be on the market within three years under a project backed by high-profile coal champions Trevor St Baker and Brian Flannery.
The $11 million project by Printed Energy, owned equally by the St Baker Energy Innovation Fund and Mr Flannery’s family company Ganra, has won $2 million of funding from the Commonwealth government’s Cooperative Research Centre Projects initiative.
The funds will advance work with the aim of the first printed battery products, most likely in the healthcare sector, reaching the market in three years, said Printed Energy chief executive Rodger Whitby.
Printed batteries could add in-built storage to solar panels.
