jryan
03-21-2008, 03:51 PM
Came across a bit of an article e-mailed to me, thought it might be of interest:
From the "NewsBytes" section of the current "SmartPhone & PocketPC Magazine":
New nonowire battery holds 10 times the charge of current ones
SmartPhone & Pockt PC Magazine, April/May 2008, Page 9
Researchers at Stanford have developed a new method of using silicon nonowires in lithium-ion batteries that produces 10 times the charge of existing Li-ion batteries. The silicon in typical batteries tends to pulverize during the expand/shrink process of charging and discharging. Nanowires avoid this fracturing problem due to their extremely thin shape (one-thousandth the thickness of a sheet of paper), thus greatly enhancing the battery's performance. The new batteries could be used in anything from laptops and cell phones to electric cars.
Jeremy Ryan
From the "NewsBytes" section of the current "SmartPhone & PocketPC Magazine":
New nonowire battery holds 10 times the charge of current ones
SmartPhone & Pockt PC Magazine, April/May 2008, Page 9
Researchers at Stanford have developed a new method of using silicon nonowires in lithium-ion batteries that produces 10 times the charge of existing Li-ion batteries. The silicon in typical batteries tends to pulverize during the expand/shrink process of charging and discharging. Nanowires avoid this fracturing problem due to their extremely thin shape (one-thousandth the thickness of a sheet of paper), thus greatly enhancing the battery's performance. The new batteries could be used in anything from laptops and cell phones to electric cars.
Jeremy Ryan