Nanowire-based Battery Material that can be Recharged Hundreds of Thousands of Times
University of California, Irvine researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times. This bring closer the dream of a battery that would never require replacement.
From UCI news
“Mya was playing around, and she coated this whole thing with a very thin gel layer and started to cycle it,” said Penner, chair of UCI’s chemistry department. “She discovered that just by using this gel, she could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any capacity.”
“That was crazy,” he added, “because these things typically die in dramatic fashion after 5,000 or 6,000 or 7,000 cycles at most.”
