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As aircraft manufacturers snub the idea of battery-operated aircraft, researchers think they have have a solution: Make the plane out of the battery.

Lightweight structural battery - Researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have had a “big breakthrough” with a lightweight structural battery ma...

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have claimed a "big breakthrough" in the design of a battery that can double as part of a structure.

Image Credit: asharkyu/Shutterstock.com In this environmentally conscious world, fossil fuels are being shunned in favor of renewables for electricity generation and transportation. Due to their periodic nature, excess energy generated by renewables is frequently stored in batteries. However, these often add extra weight to the cars and consumer electronics they power. Researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a structural battery that is ten times better than all previous versions and paves the way for an essentially massless energy storage system for e...

6 April 2021 Swedish researchers have produced a battery made of ultra-lightweight materials, including carbon fibre that works as an electrode, a conductor, and a load-bearing structure, in a breakthrough that could pave the way for lighter, more efficient electric cars and planes. The breakthrough in the long-running quest to develop “massless energy storage” was reported late last month, as the result of a collaboration between Chalmers University of Technology and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, both in Sweden. The technology works using types of carbon fibre which, as well as bein...