Laptops, tablets, smartphones and portable devices - all need compact and fast rechargeable batteries. Also, hybrid cars and electric vehicles significantly increases the demand for elements of traction batteries, which must quickly take charge, not to lose it during storage and sub-zero temperatures, and remain fairly easy and cheap for mass application.
According to the website Reuters, an Israeli company StoreDot managed to develop material for batteries that can quickly take charge and keep it with minimal losses. Superdense sponge with the peptide structure allows you to create batteries for smartphones, reducing the daily supply of electricity in just 30 seconds. Yet existing in the form of bulky prototypes, this invention can go into a series already in 2016, especially considering involvement in the financing of development of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and one of the largest Asian manufacturers of smartphones. Developers have managed to collect about $ 48 million. To implement their ideas.
Equipped with a new type of smartphone battery will be $ 100-150 more expensive than a conventional battery, and the amount of allowable charge-discharge cycles will not exceed 1,500 units. According to the developers, this is enough for a three-year battery operation. The technology will also create traction batteries for electric vehicles to be charged for two or three minutes instead of the current hours.