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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

The Secret Lives of Miniature Batteries.

Sivan Toledo, Shai Mendel

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sivan ToledoThe Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-9524-7115
Shai MendelThe Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

Funding

Israel Science Foundation 1919/19Israel Science Foundation 965/15
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article describes the design, implementation, and use of a new system to investigate the behavior of small batteries that power sensor and wireless systems that consume relatively high power during infrequent short activity periods. The system enables simple, low-cost, long-term (days to weeks) monitoring of batteries under such loads. Data collected by this system revealed a major cause of failures in wildlife tracking tags, an effect called concentration polarization, which causes a transient increase in the internal resistance of the battery. The article describes the goals and the design of the system, failures that it revealed, mechanisms to mitigate the limitations of miniature batteries, as well as a methodology to optimize and validate the design of tags powered by miniature batteries.

Indexed as

asset tracking tagsbatteriesconcentration polarizationcurrent limitingimplantable, ingestible, injectable devicesinternal resistancereservoir capacitorwildlife tracking tags

Identifiers

PMID38339465
PMCPMC10857627

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