TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ELECTRONICS - Preferred Electrode: Alternatively, the battery electrode comprises: a grid having a length and a width; an active material provided on the grid; and a pasting textile provided on or into the active material; where the pasting textile includes a fiber web including one or more fibers with an average length of approximately half of the sum of the length and the width of the grid. In a second alternative case, the battery electrode comprises: a grid having a perimeter; an active material provided on the grid; and a pasting textile provided on or into the active material; where the pasting textile includes a fiber web including one or more fibers with a first end and a second end; and where the first end of each fiber is positioned substantially near the perimeter of the grid. The average length of the fibers is from l.5-15 mm. The second end of most fibers are positioned substantially near the perimeter of the grid, where the fiber web is point-bonded and non-woven. The pasting textile is 0.06-5 mm in thickness, preferably 0.06-0.25 mm in thickness. Also, the pasting textile has a density range of 0.15-2.0 ounces per square yard. The fibers are microfibers, where the fibers have a diameter of 10-25 mu m. The fibers are not greater than 10 denier per fiber or not greater than 4 denier per fiber. The fibers comprise carbon, where the fibers comprise carbon in one or more forms selected from carbon black, graphite, expanded graphite, nanotubes, nanofibers, or acetylene black. The pasting textile includes one or more additives including at least one of titanium dioxide, graphite, carbon black, expanded graphite, nanotubes, nanofibers, or acetylene black. The fibers comprise one or more thermoplastic resins. The fibers comprise at least one of polyesters, polypropylene, viscous rayon, or polyamides. Preferred Method: Manufacturing battery electrodes further comprises treating the pasting textile with one or more substances selected from titanium dioxide, carbon black, graphite, expanded graphite, nanotubes, nanofibers, or acetylene black; treating the pasting textile with a delustering agent; and coupling the pasting textile to pasting paper.