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1. | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS |
1.1. | Overview |
1.2. | Thin-film, flexible, printed batteries, and beyond |
1.3. | Structure of the report |
1.4. | Who should read this report |
1.5. | Research methodology |
1.6. | Future Direction of Battery Development |
1.7. | Status of battery markets |
1.8. | Thin, flexible and printed batteries are describing different aspects of battery features |
1.9. | Major drivers for the development of new-form-and-structural-factor batteries |
1.10. | Status of flexible batteries |
1.11. | Value proposition |
1.12. | Challenges and difficulties |
1.13. | Battery safety |
1.14. | Samsung's firegate |
1.15. | Development roadmap of batteries |
1.16. | Application market roadmap |
1.17. | Consumer electronics giants are moving into flexible batteries |
1.18. | LG Chem's offerings |
1.19. | Apple's contributions |
1.20. | Samsung — never falling behind |
1.21. | Nokia's approach |
1.22. | Threats from other power sources |
1.23. | Typical specifications for a CR2032 lithium coin battery |
1.24. | Coin cell or thin battery, that is the question |
1.25. | Advantages and limitations of supercapacitors |
1.26. | Are supercapacitors threats to batteries? |
1.27. | Trends towards multiple energy harvesting |
1.28. | Comparison of different power options |
1.29. | Technologies included in the report |
1.30. | Technology benchmarking |
1.31. | Business model |
1.32. | A practical battery is a combination of many considerations |
1.33. | Strategies for battery providers focusing on new form and structural factors |
1.34. | Market by territory |
1.35. | Price perspectives |
1.36. | Addressable market |
1.37. | Market forecast assumptions |
1.38. | Market forecast 2019-2029 by application (number of units) |
1.39. | Market value forecast 2019-2029 by application |
1.40. | Market by application in 2019 and 2029 |
1.41. | Market value forecast 2019-2029 by technology |
1.42. | Conclusions |
2. | BACKGROUND OF BATTERY KNOWLEDGE |
2.1. | What is a battery? |
2.2. | Glossary of terms - specifications |
2.3. | Useful charts for performance comparison |
2.4. | Battery categories |
2.5. | Commercial battery packaging technologies |
2.6. | Comparison of commercial battery packaging technologies |
2.7. | Electrode design & architecture: important for different applications |
2.8. | Electrochemical inactive components in the battery |
2.9. | Primary vs secondary batteries |
2.10. | Popular battery chemistries |
2.11. | Primary battery chemistries and common applications |
2.12. | Numerical specifications of popular rechargeable battery chemistries |
2.13. | Battery technology benchmark |
2.14. | Nomenclature for lithium-based rechargeable batteries |
2.15. | Lithium-ion & lithium metal batteries |
2.16. | Lithium-ion batteries |
3. | WHY IS BATTERY DEVELOPMENT SO SLOW? |
3.1. | Overview |
3.2. | A big obstacle — energy density |
3.3. | Battery technology is based on redox reactions |
3.4. | Electrochemical reaction is essentially based on electron transfer |
3.5. | Electrochemical inactive components reduce energy density |
3.6. | The importance of an electrolyte in a battery |
3.7. | Cathode & anode need to have structural order |
3.8. | Failure story about metallic lithium anode |
3.9. | Conclusion |
4. | THIN FILM BATTERIES |
4.1. | A thin battery is usually flexible to some extent |
4.2. | Typical thicknesses of the traditional battery components |
4.3. | Design differences between thin-film batteries and bulk-size batteries |
4.4. | Areal energy density vs. cell thickness |
4.5. | Shortcomings of thin-film batteries |
4.6. | Units used to characterize thin-film batteries |
4.7. | Comparison of various solid-state lithium-based batteries |
4.8. | Solid-State Thin-Film Lithium Battery |
4.9. | Most successful commercial thin-film battery |
4.10. | Players worked and working on thin-film lithium batteries |
4.11. | Construction of an ultra-thin lithium battery |
4.12. | Cathode material options for thin-film batteries |
4.13. | Cathode of thin film lithium battery |
4.14. | Anode of thin film lithium battery |
4.15. | Substrate options |
4.16. | Advantages and disadvantages of selected materials |
4.17. | Trend of materials and processes of thin-film battery in different companies |
4.18. | Ultra-thin micro-battery—NanoEnergy® |
4.19. | Micro-Batteries suitable for integration |
4.20. | From limited to mass production—STMicroelectronics |
4.21. | Summary of the EnFilm™ rechargeable thin-film battery |
4.22. | NGK |
4.23. | NGK's EnerCerachip |
4.24. | Thin-film solid-state batteries made by Excellatron |
4.25. | Johnson Battery Technologies |
4.26. | JBT's advanced technology performance |
4.27. | Capacity increase |
4.28. | Technology of Infinite Power Solutions |
4.29. | Cost comparison between a standard prismatic battery and IPS' battery |
4.30. | Manufacturing Approaches of Solid-State Thin-Film Lithium Batteries |
4.31. | Summary of main fabrication technique for thin film batteries |
4.32. | PVD processes for thin-film batteries |
4.33. | Thin-film battery potentials |
5. | BATTERY SIZE REDUCTION: MICRO-BATTERIES |
5.1. | Architectures of micro-batteries |
5.2. | Introduction to micro-batteries |
5.3. | 3D printed lithium-ion micro-batteries |
5.4. | Primary Li/CFx micro-battery |
6. | BATTERIES WITH SPECIAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES: FLEXIBLE, STRETCHABLE, ROLLABLE, BENDABLE AND FOLDABLE BATTERIES |
6.1. | Flexible electronics |
6.2. | Realization of batteries' mechanical properties |
6.3. | Thickness-Derived Flexibility |
6.4. | Stresses generated in a the battery during flexing |
6.5. | Material-Derived Flexibility |
6.6. | Comparison of a flexible LIB with a traditional one |
6.7. | Introduction |
6.8. | Efforts on the electrolyte/ separator |
6.9. | Solid-state electrolyte |
6.10. | Safety of solid-state batteries |
6.11. | Improvement of solid-state battery |
6.12. | Comparison of organic and inorganic solid-state electrolyte |
6.13. | Polymer-based electrolytes |
6.14. | Bendable lithium-based battery |
6.15. | Lionrock Batteries |
6.16. | Highly conductive polymer gel electrolyte and lamination processes for roll-to-roll li-ion cell production |
6.17. | BrightVolt batteries |
6.18. | BrightVolt product matrix |
6.19. | Electrolyte |
6.20. | Toes Opto-Mechatronics |
6.21. | Hitachi Zosen's solid-state electrolyte |
6.22. | Hitachi Zosen's batteries |
6.23. | Hitachi Maxell |
6.24. | Ohara / PolyPlus |
6.25. | Planar Energy |
6.26. | ProLogium: Solid-state lithium ceramic battery |
6.27. | LiPON-based solid-state batteries |
6.28. | Ilika's stacked solid-state micro-battery |
6.29. | Thin film vs. bulk solid-state batteries |
6.30. | Efforts on the electrodes |
6.31. | Innovative electrode |
6.32. | From electrode innovation to flexible batteries |
6.33. | Efforts on the current collectors |
6.34. | Carbon materials for current collectors |
6.35. | Thin and flexible alkaline battery developed by New Jersey Institute of Technology |
6.36. | Flexible battery achieved by anode materials |
6.37. | Efforts on the packaging |
6.38. | Lithium-polymer pouch cells |
6.39. | Techniques to fabricate aluminium laminated sheets |
6.40. | Packaging procedures for pouch cells |
6.41. | IGMBPOW |
6.42. | Showa Denko Packaging |
6.43. | Flexible lithium-ion battery from QinetiQ |
6.44. | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory |
6.45. | Flexible and foldable batteries: still working after being washed by the washing machine |
6.46. | Flexible pouch cells |
6.47. | LIBEST's flexible battery |
6.48. | Panasonic's flexible batteries |
6.49. | Flexibility enabled by packaging materials |
6.50. | Combination |
6.51. | Improvements of multiple components done by BattFlex |
6.52. | AMO's flexible and bendable batteries: innovations |
6.53. | AMO's flexible and bendable batteries: specifications |
6.54. | AMO's flexible and bendable batteries: safety test |
6.55. | AMO's flexible and bendable batteries: Product flow chart |
6.56. | Device-Design-Derived Flexibility |
6.57. | Cable-type batteries |
6.58. | Cable-type battery developed by LG Chem |
6.59. | Battery on wire |
6.60. | Huineng (Tianjin) Technology Development |
6.61. | Large-area multi-stacked textile battery for flexible and rollable applications |
6.62. | Stretchable lithium-ion battery — use spring-like lines |
6.63. | Foldable kirigami lithium-ion battery developed by Arizona State University |
6.64. | Flexible electrode assembly |
6.65. | Fibre-shaped lithium-ion battery that can be woven into electronic textiles |
6.66. | Stretchable batteries that stick to the skin like a band-aid |
6.67. | Flexible Battery Patent Analysis |
6.68. | Flexible battery patent application and publication trend |
6.69. | Flexible battery patent top assignees |
6.70. | Flexible battery important companies |
6.71. | Flexible battery geographic territories |
6.72. | Flexible battery portfolio value distribution |
7. | PRINTED BATTERIES |
7.1. | Printed battery technologies |
7.2. | Zinc-based printed batteries |
7.3. | Printed battery layout |
7.4. | Component options of printed batteries |
7.5. | Materials/compositions for printed batteries in research |
7.6. | Typical construction and reaction of printed disposable battery |
7.7. | Players in printed battery industry |
7.8. | Research strategy for development of printed batteries |
7.9. | Printed Battery Case Studies |
7.10. | Printed batteries from Fraunhofer ENAS |
7.11. | Fraunhofer ENAS' printed batteries |
7.12. | Varta Microbattery/Varta Storage |
7.13. | SoftBattery® from Enfucell |
7.14. | Blue Spark batteries |
7.15. | FlexEL LLC |
7.16. | Printed battery from Printed Energy |
7.17. | Paper batteries from Rocket Electric |
7.18. | Zinergy |
7.19. | Liten CEA Tech: printed battery |
7.20. | Rechargeable ZincPolyTM from Imprint Energy |
7.21. | Imprint Energy's technology innovations and specifications |
7.22. | Flexographically printed Zn/MnO2 battery |
7.23. | Screen printed secondary NMH batteries |
7.24. | Manufacturing Processes of Printed Batteries |
7.25. | Printing techniques |
7.26. | Descriptions of various printing techniques |
7.27. | Comparison of printing techniques |
7.28. | Throughput vs. feature size for typical printing processes |
7.29. | Advantages and disadvantages of printing techniques used for printed battery fabrication |
7.30. | Examples of production facilities |
8. | BATTERIES WITH OTHER VALUE PROPOSITIONS |
8.1. | Needle battery from Panasonic |
8.2. | Batteries with optical properties |
8.3. | Transparent components for batteries |
8.4. | Transparent battery developed by Waseda University |
8.5. | Grid-like transparent lithium-ion battery |
9. | OTHER LAMINAR AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY STORAGE |
9.1. | Laminar fuel cells |
9.2. | What is a capacitor |
9.3. | Comparison of construction diagrams of three basic types of capacitor |
9.4. | Supercapacitor |
9.5. | Electrolyte options for supercapacitors |
9.6. | Thin and flexible supercapacitor - PowerWrapper |
9.7. | Two product lines fill the power gap |
9.8. | Battery-like thin-film supercapacitor by Rice University |
9.9. | Printed supercapacitors |
9.10. | University of Southern California |
9.11. | Flexible, transparent supercapacitors |
9.12. | Biological supercapacitors for pacemakers |
10. | MATERIAL SELECTION |
10.1. | Main lithium producers and lithium sources |
10.2. | Cobalt - From ore to metal |
10.3. | Cathode materials for primary cells |
10.4. | Cathode materials for secondary cells |
10.5. | New cathode materials - FDK Corporation |
10.6. | Graphite for batteries |
10.7. | Anodes |
10.8. | Anode alternatives - other carbon materials |
10.9. | Anode alternatives - silicon, tin and alloying materials |
10.10. | Summary of the electrolyte properties |
10.11. | Liquid electrolytes |
10.12. | Types of polymer electrolytes |
10.13. | Solid-state electrolytes |
10.14. | Gel Electrolytes |
10.15. | Binders - aqueous vs. non-aqueous |
10.16. | Current collectors |
10.17. | Current collectors and packaging |
11. | APPLICATIONS |
11.1. | Introduction to Applications |
11.1.1. | Applications of battery with new form and structural factors |
11.1.2. | Power range for electronic and electrical devices |
11.2. | Wearables: Stagnating? |
11.2.1. | The growth of wearables |
11.2.2. | Changes towards wearable devices |
11.2.3. | Batteries are the main bottleneck of wearables |
11.2.4. | Wearables at different locations of a human body |
11.2.5. | Wearables: smart watch, wristband and bracelet |
11.2.6. | Battery requirements |
11.2.7. | Wrist-worn application examples with flexible batteries |
11.2.8. | Ankle/foot-worn application examples |
11.2.9. | Head/eye-worn application examples |
11.2.10. | Electronic apparel & glove and textiles |
11.2.11. | Military |
11.2.12. | Other wearable application examples |
11.2.13. | Summary and conclusions for wearable applications |
11.3. | Medical and Cosmetic: Huge Opportunities? |
11.3.1. | Mobile healthcare: Huge growth potential |
11.3.2. | Cosmetic skin patches |
11.3.3. | Iontophoresis for cosmetics |
11.3.4. | Cardiovascular monitoring patch |
11.3.5. | Wireless inpatient monitoring |
11.3.6. | Temperature monitoring |
11.3.7. | Life Science Technology |
11.3.8. | Conformal displacement sensor |
11.3.9. | Medical skin patches - the dark horse |
11.3.10. | A list of increasing number of medical skin patch products |
11.3.11. | Medical implants |
11.4. | Consumer Electronics: What Next? |
11.4.1. | Future trend in battery for consumer electronics |
11.4.2. | Flexibility: Big giants' growing interest |
11.4.3. | Thinness is still required for now and future |
11.4.4. | Slim consumer electronics |
11.4.5. | New market: Thin batteries can help to increase the total capacity |
11.4.6. | Will modular phones be the direction of the future? |
11.4.7. | Thin and flexible supercapacitor for consumer electronics |
11.5. | From Sensors to Internet of Things |
11.5.1. | Something new vs Renamed world of mobile phones |
11.5.2. | Internet of Things |
11.5.3. | Batteries for IoT |
11.5.4. | Power supply options for WSN |
11.5.5. | Rod-shape battery - examples |
11.5.6. | Novel examples of thin batteries in IoT devices |
11.5.7. | Golf sensor patch powered by printed battery |
11.5.8. | Smart device powered by solid-state battery |
11.5.9. | Thoughts about thin and flexible batteries in novel devices |
11.5.10. | Maintenance-free wireless power for the IoT: Ready or not? |
11.5.11. | Micro-batteries integrated with energy harvesting devices |
11.5.12. | Real time clock backup, SRAM backup and microcontroller (MCU) |
11.5.13. | RFID sensors/ tags with thin batteries |
11.5.14. | Examples of thin batteries used in RFID tags/ sensors |
11.6. | Smart Packaging and Advertising |
11.6.1. | Smart packaging and advertising examples |
11.6.2. | Audio Paper™ developed by Toppan Printing |
11.6.3. | Case studies of power for smart packaging |
11.7. | Powered Smart Cards |
11.7.1. | Where will the powered smart cards go? |
11.7.2. | Arrangement of batteries in smart cards |
11.7.3. | Battery alternative solution |
11.7.4. | Changes in smart card field |
11.8. | Other Markets |
11.8.1. | Application examples |
11.8.2. | How about printed battery for other disposable applications |
12. | FAILURE STORIES |
12.1. | Companies that have stopped trading |
13. | END-USER INTERVIEWS |
14. | GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS |
14.1. | Glossary |
14.2. | Abbreviations |
15. | GLOBAL PLAYERS |
15.1. | List of global players with descriptions |
16. | COMPANY PROFILES |
16.1. | 24M |
16.2. | BattFlex/Enerol nanotechnologies |
16.3. | Blue Spark |
16.4. | BrightVolt |
16.5. | Cymbet |
16.6. | Enfucell Flexible Electronics |
16.7. | FlexEl |
16.8. | Fraunhofer ENAS, Technische Universitaet Chemnitz |
16.9. | Front Edge Technology |
16.10. | FullRiver Battery New Technology |
16.11. | Hitachi Zosen Corporation |
16.12. | Huizhou Markyn New Energy |
16.13. | Imprint Energy |
16.14. | Ilika |
16.15. | Jenax |
16.16. | Johnson Battery Technologies |
16.17. | Kalptree Energy |
16.18. | Lionrock Batteries |
16.19. | MIT |
16.20. | Paper Battery Company |
16.21. | PolyPlus/Ohara |
16.22. | Prelonic Technologies |
16.23. | ProLogium |
16.24. | Printed Energy |
16.25. | Rocket Electric |
16.26. | Sakti3 |
16.27. | STMicroelectronics |
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Companies | 27 |
Forecasts to | 2029 |