Making a Zinc Carbon Battery from Scratch with Raw Materials | Part 1

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In today's video I'll be making a fully functional, 3D Printed Zinc-Carbon Battery, from scratch. And as if that wasn't cool enough, instead of using a solid graphite positive electrode, I'll be using a flexible form of graphite called Pyrolytic Graphite Sheets (PGS), normally used for thermal interfaces.

I've been quite fascinated by batteries for quite a while now, and I also love chemistry, so when I made my video on the Pyrolytic Graphite Sheets a few weeks ago, this idea popped up almost instantly.
The reason being that Zinc Carbon batteries usually use a graphite rod as their positive electrode (current collector), so I thought how cool would it be if I made my own version substituting the graphite rod with a flexible graphite sheet? Turns out, pretty cool!

If this video does well, I'll make several of these cells and use them to power something really interesting! So if this video was cool/entertaining, please make sure to leave a Like and/or subscribe!

PGS Graphite Video:

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:39 Materials & Chemicals
01:41 3D Printed Battery Shell
03:22 Electrolyte Application & Separator Overview
04:38 Cathode Material Preparation
07:30 Cathode Half-Cell Assembly
10:49 Separator Assembly
13:43 Anode Half-Cell Assembly
16:27 Battery Assembly
18:07 Sealing with Rubber Cement
19:11 Preparing Electrodes for Testing
22:10 Electrolyte Preparation
24:42 Final Adjustments
25:15 Activating the Battery
32:55 Outro