Supercapacitor Battery Developed By Researchers

Researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) has developed a supercharger that can charge a smartphone in seconds and the charge may last a week. Thus, users will need to charge their smartphones only once a week. UCF postdoctoral associate Nitin Choudhary has described the supercharger as a supercapacitor battery prototype and this could be a reality soon.

“You could charge your mobile phone in a few seconds and you wouldn't need to charge it again for over a week,” Choudhary told Engadget.

He explained futher that these kinds of supercapacitors never use chemical reactions but they store electricity statically on the surface of “two-dimensional” material sheets.

“For small electronic devices, our materials are surpassing the conventional ones worldwide in terms of energy density, power density and cyclic stability,” said researcher Yeonwoong “Eric” Jung.

But According to The Sydney Morning Herald, SolidEnergy Systems, the company established by assachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumni, successfully developed a battery, twice the capacity of conventional phone batteries. The company may launch these batteries in 2017.