Phone Charging Innovation
Many smartphone users are unhappy about battery life, which take at least one hour to gain a charge that lasts for less than a day. This dissatisfaction is likely to be addressed in the near future.
Foreign news channels such as the Wall Street Journal and CNN Money reported this week that StoreDot, a venture firm in Israel, unveiled a prototype of a technique for 30-second charging.
According to the company, the technology was developed by Alzheimer’s research at Tel Aviv University. In demo footage posted by StoreDot, the battery of a Galaxy S4 smartphone is charged in just 26 seconds at the Think Next Conference by Microsoft.
“The research institute created nanocrystals with a diameter of 2.1 nanometers by separating certain amino acids and combining them with peptides,” said Doron Myersdorf, founding CEO of the company, continuing, “The nanocrystals can be utilized in the batteries of a variety of electronic appliances.” The research team added that the nanocrystals can triple the speed of existing flash memory as well.
What is drawing attention now is how to make it small enough to be put into a smartphone. The battery shown in the footage is as large as a cigarette box. The company is expecting that it will be able to release commercial products within a couple of years.