Lithium Polymer Battery, popularly known as LiPo Battery, works on the lithium-ion technology instead of the normally used liquid electrolyte. These kinds of batteries are rechargeable thereby providing users with huge savings in terms of cost.

Such batteries are specifically used on products and appliances where weight is a crucial feature, as in, where already weight is a special consideration. For example, consumers prefer light weighted mobile phones so mobile companies have to use such batteries that do not add to the weight of the phones.

So, what’s the big deal about these batteries?

I’ll explain. Such batteries are gaining more and more popularity these days because of their long run time and high power and hence it is of paramount importance that we understand every little detail about them.We have following models: 6658101, 2864147, 5465124, 2093123 and so on. (click numbers to get datasheets).

Chapter 10
Lithium Polymer Battery Disposal

History of Lithium Polymer Batteries

Batteries are the first practical way of generating electricity and were invented by Alessandro Volta. Before generators came into the scene, batteries were the main source of electricity till the end of the 19th century.
Every year there was a certain improvement in the battery technology which assured that there was something exceptional to come. Many scientists and engineers developed several commercial important batteries, one of them being the wet cells which were used on a large scale in the telegraph and the telephone systems.

Batteries are the first practical way of generating electricity and were invented by Alessandro Volta. Before generators came into the scene, batteries were the main source of electricity till the end of the The ancient electric cars also used the semi-sealed wet cells. This background of the batteries was the key for the development of the LiPo cells. The discovery of the Lithium Polymer Battery cells came because of the Lithium-ion and lithium-metal cells as they went to depth in the 1980s. A significant, yet remarkable milestone was the first commercial Li-ion cell of Sony in 1991. There was a revolution thereafter which introduced a pouch form of battery called “LiPo”.