The Americans have developed a technology that is ten times increases the capacity of the battery

Stanford University reported on the development of technology that significantly increases the capacity of lithium batteries used in cameras, cell phones and other portable electronic devices.

New battery stores 10 times more energy than the existing version of lithium battery. If today is a portable computer equipped with a fully charged battery can last about two hours, the new battery pack increases the duration of working time to 20 hours, writes Washington Prfile.

This discovery could revolutionize not only in consumer electronics, but also in other areas. The new technology allows the theoretically more efficient electric vehicles and store energy at home.

Drastic increase in battery capacity was made possible through the use of nanotechnology. For the manufacture of lithium batteries traditionally used carbon. Previously, different laboratories have repeatedly tried to use silicon ( in the form of particles or thin films ), which has a much higher capacity than carbon, but failed - the fact that the silicon components of the battery rapidly ' aging ' and lose their capacity for work. The use of silicon nanotubes ( diameter one-thousandth the thickness of a sheet of paper ), enabled to solve this problem.

The inventors believe that the technology of production of new cells is relatively simple and therefore industrial production can be started in the foreseeable future.
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