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Few companies are pursuing solid state battery technology. This is partly because numerous fundamental technology patents must be purchased to even begin developing the technology, while capacitors and supercapacitors still hold much of the market space. Cymbet is one company that believes in solid state batteries, according to Steve Grady, Cymbet's VP of Marketing, and the company has developed the EnerChip Solid State Battery line to capitalize on the benefits of the unique technology. Grady explained some of the advantages of solid-state batteries over more common legacy supercapacitor technology, including the ability of solid state batteries to keep a charge longer than capacitors (even over long periods of un-use), flexibility in shape, “smart� features, non-cytotoxicity, and small size.
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