What's new here with the UC Irvine discovery is the combination of the plexiglass-like PMMA electrolyte gel with manganese dioxide (MnO2) coating, leading to the unprecedented breakthrough in cycling efficiency from the usual 1,000 cycle maximum to over 200,000 cycles.
#7 I had a similar idea but I was using a plexiglass-like PMMA electrolyte mousse instead of a gel.....