The “Lithium Polymer” batteries are a kind of “Lithium Ion” battery. In fact, all electrochemical energy storage is at root an ionic technology.
As always, there’s a lot of good information on this at Wikipedia:
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Lithium Ion Battery
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Lithium Ion Polymer Battery
Here’s an fascinating remark from the first of those pages:
“In April 2006, a group of scientists at MIT announced that they had figured out a way to use viruses to form nano-sized wires that can be used to build ultrathin lithium-ion batteries with three times the normal energy density. Science Express (preprint) <a href='http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1122716'[7]”
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