Albert Mihranyan has developed an environmentally friendly paper-based battery for portable equipment, which consists of mainly paper and salt – more specifically nano-structured paper and a leading polymer.There are many possible applications for the battery, such as clean energy storage systems, decomposable electronics as sensors and displays, and smart textiles with embedded sensors. The simplicity of the technique and the ability to manufacture on a large scale is predicted to open up unprecedented opportunities to integrate information technology in applications where it previously was not possible.Albert Mihranyan received the Chester Carlson's Research Award at a ceremony in Stockholm on March 11th. The Chester Carlson Award is awarded to young promising researchers in information science. The prize was established in 1985 to commemorate Swedish descendant Chester Carlson, who invented the copying machine and founded the company Xerox. The prize winners are selected by Xerox and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA.