MicroBattery Technology made for bio-implantable devices.(ENERGY)

Advanced Materials & Processes,  December, 2005  

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Lithium battery technology based on new silicon-based compounds enable implantable batteries to be made smaller, last longer, and accept a charge from outside the body without the need for surgery, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Emeritus of chemistry Robert West. The organosilicon batteries are projected to power tiny implantable devices for more than 12 years.

The battery powers a microstimulator not much larger than a pencil lead. It can be injected near target nerves to help overcome the faulty nervous system wiring that causes Parkinson's, epilepsy, and ...

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