10 APRIL 2021
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are basically everywhere, powering everything from smartphones to notebooks, earbuds to gaming devices, and so much more.
But while the convenience of this ubiquitous (and Nobel Prize-winning) battery chemistry has radically changed the way we use and charge portable technology, lithium-ion is far from perfect.
And as anybody who owns a smartphone, tablet, or laptop can attest, charging up lithium-ion batteries can be a slow and time-consuming process. On that front, scientists have some good news to report.
Researchers in Russia have developed a new type of battery technology that they say can charge approximately 10 times faster than existing lithium-ion batteries – a speed-up that could offer huge time-saving advantages if it got rolled out in everyday devices.
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A new type of battery that can charge ten times faster than a lithium-ion battery created
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