Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for measuring a growth volume of a plant. The apparatus includes a measurement unit configured to generate light and measure a circumference length and an internode length of the plant by using a reflection pattern signal of light obtained by reflecting the generated light, and a control unit configured to respectively compare the measured circumference length and internode length of the plant with a previously measured circumference length and internode length of the plant to calculate respective change amounts of the circumference length and internode length of the plant, and calculate a growth volume of the plant by using the calculated change amounts of the circumference length and internode length of the plant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thread-type flexible battery, more precisely a thread-type flexible battery that can be transformed into various forms in necessary and easily connected to an instrument from outside thereof by having a shape of a thread, which is constructed by forming an inside electrode by coating electrode material at periphery side of inside current collector, and coating electrolyte at the outside of said inside electrode, and forming an outside electrode by coating electrode material at periphery side of said electrolyte, and then depositing an outside electrolyte and a protecting coating part enabling to protect the periphery side of said outside electrolyte from a moisture and an air.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sodium-sulfur battery consisted of solid sodium for the negative electrode (comprising carbon, sodium metal oxide and the like comprising sodium compound, sodium ion); solid sulfur for the positive electrode (comprising sulfur, sulfur compound such as iron sulfide, nickel sulfide); and liquid electrolyte which sodium salt and organic solvent such as grymids or carbonates are soaked in cell guard, thereby improving a drawback of prior art for conventional battery.