Smart Clothes-Batteries Included!

So here’s my next best crochet project idea….something made with a yarn-like lithium-ion battery that could power my personal electronics! The cool thing about this battery is that it doesn't

 have any metal components and it’s stretchy so it would be perfect as part of a bunny or Ninja Turtle hat. The thread like batteries are made of tiny wires nestled in carbon nanotubes, one coated with lithium oxide nanoparticles and the other with lithium manganese oxide (for negative and positive). The wires are then twisted together with a gel electrolyte and a thin strip of non-conducting material separating them. A battery of this sort less than a foot long can light up a whole string of LED lights for up to a minute, so I’m just imagining how much power a hat crocheted with this material could have. The battery was also coiled around a piece of elastic and stretched hundreds of times without loss of performance. Smart phones move over because wearable technology…smart clothes (and possibly smart crocheted hats) are set to take off and will be coming to consumers like you and me, soon!