Half-day Insight Forum 4

Batteries with New Form and Structural Factors: Thin, Flexible, Printed, Woven, Stretchable, Structural and Small Batteries

Critical business intelligence covering technology, market assessment, forecasts, players, case studies and opportunities

This session offers the analysis from three different angles: technology, application and form factor, with the emphasis on the last one.

Form factor is becoming a major driver shaping innovation and transforming the energy storage industry globally. This is motivated by the emergence of new market categories such as wearable electronic devices and Internet of Things (IoT), which demand thinness and flexibility and those features cannot be provided by traditional cylindrical, bulky batteries and coin cells. These new market categories will help the market for thin and flexible batteries reach $460 million in 2026.

Thin, flexible or printed batteries have commercially existed for more than ten years. Traditionally, the micro-power thin and printed batteries were used in skin patches, RFID tags and smart cards. Today, however, the composition of the target market is undergoing drastic change driven by the emergence of new addressable market categories. This trend has enticed many large players to enter the foray, starting to transform a business landscape that was once populated predominantly by small firms.

Who have strong presence in this area?
What have they developed?
What markets are they targeting and what does it mean for this industry?
Those questions will be discussed in detail in this session.

Batteries have been the bottle neck for electronics due to the limited power they can store. Driven by the hundreds-of-billion-dollar addressable market, as well as the realization of the importance of energy industry, players are investing to develop new technologies for the next-generation batteries. Many amazing technologies, as well as traditional lithium-ion are applied to batteries with special form factors. You will get a deep understanding about the typical technologies applied in batteries with special form factors.

Applications such as skin patch and smart cards have been existed for some time. While players are expanding their focusing covering RFID, wireless sensors, wearables, medical devices, backup power, portable electronics, energy harvesting, smart packaging and interactive media, toys, games and cards. Current status, potential and opportunities of these market applications will be analysed as well.

You will get a whole picture about battery industry with special form factors, from current status, trend, development direction, to technology, players and applications. This forum addresses both the business and technologies involved. Attendees will leave with a clear, quantified view of the markets, technology assessment and development roadmaps, key player profiles and their strategy for market adoption, with lessons from success and failures.

All Insight Forums will be conducted in English

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