Big Delta Systems is able to mould batteries.

Big Delta Systems, a spin-out of Rice University, is commercialising technology which allows it to mould batteries into an infinite number of different shapes.

The company’s technology relies on a sprayable form of the positive and negative current collectors, so that the two parts of a battery do not have to be built in separate manufacturing processes. Big Delta uses a transparent thermoplastic, polymethylmethacrylate, to spray the liquid into and have it set into a shape. The thermoplastic…