Super-slimmed smartphones

By Ida Emilie Steinmark and Adam Boxer2018-09-10T09:03:00

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Could ‘colourful’ batteries revolutionise phones? This article includes teaching resources

Battery and screen take up most a smartphone – so combining both components could be the next breakthrough in phone design. Ida Emilie Steinmark talks to researchers who’ve made a breakthrough towards building a screen-battery. Adam Boxer shares ideas and resources for using the article in lessons to teach batteries or electrochemistry, notoriously tricky parts of chemistry curriculums.

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