It takes only a few seconds to charge a new battery, this world of technology has not yet seen, but now a patent has been received .
Specialists from a university located in Central Florida created a prototype battery. It is a flexible supercapacitor that can work as new even after 30,000 charges / discharges. You can charge the battery in seconds, as stated on the official website of the university that developed the novelty.
To date, the charging speed of a few seconds is ultra-high. This unprecedented speed is due to the fact that the accumulation of static electricity in the device occurs in an unusual way. In the usual for all batteries charge accumulates due to chemical reactions. In the supercapacitor, the principle of its accumulation on the battery surface is used.
To make a flexible battery, you need to use millions of threads. The thickness of such fibers is only about a nanometer, and each of them is covered with a thin layer of graphene. This coating is necessary to ensure high energy density. Used high-passable core significantly accelerates the transfer of electrons, which causes such high-speed charging.
To better convey the essence of the above, it is worth considering an example. A regular lithium-ion battery has a charging limit of about 1,500 cycles. The previously developed supercapacitor batteries with two-dimensional materials are charged several thousand times. But the battery, created at the University of Florida, as mentioned earlier, can be charged at least 30,000 times, and the quality of the energy does not change.
Specialists of the organization say that the power source they invented is simply an embodiment of the concept and looks promising.
In evaluating this option of an “almost eternal” battery, many experts note the extremely high potential and versatility of the innovation. Modern lithium-ion batteries, with all their desire, will not be able to jump over their line of capacity. It is a matter of size and weight, which for this must increase very significantly.
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Developers are planning to get a patent for their offspring. Their plans are widespread flexible battery. This is not surprising, because nothing prevents to go beyond the framework of a smartphone and use it in other devices of the world of computer equipment and not only. It may even be a new generation of vehicles that require a long autonomous power.
