The ‘Holy Grail’ of batteries might double your smartphone’s battery life

[froggyboy604]

Researchers from Stanford including former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steve Chu are currently working on “fixing” lithium-ion batteries in order to offer a longer charge to various devices that require such batteries, including smartphones and electric cars.

A battery has three components including an anode that discharges electrons, a cathode to receive them and an electrolyte to provide electrons. Stanford researchers are trying to create a battery that has lithium in the anode as well, not only in the electrolyte.

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This is good news for people who play a lot of mobile games on a smartphone or tablet which use a lot of battery power.

 

[dfarmer2001]

Good thing, because my smartphone and everything I have dies like every 2 hours. Which is very bad -.- I would much rather have a whole lot of battery life than short life. lol