Researchers in Singapore have come up with a unique technique which enables smartphone batteries to grab up to 70 percent of charge in a matter of just two minutes. That’s incredibly fast, and it even means that your dead smartphone will be up and running with 100 percent charge in less than three minutes.
If such a battery goes into mass production, keeping your smartphone juiced up wouldn’t be as huge a problem as it is right now. We will finally be able to say goodbye to overnight charging, power banks, battery saving apps and what not.
The secret of this ability to recharge a smartphone battery up to 70 percent in two minutes lies in a pretty unlikely substance we all know as sunscreen! A study conducted by researchers from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has led to the invention of a smart battery which makes use of a gel-based material to speed up the charging process.
The people involved in this project swapped the graphite from a normal battery’s anode with a gel created from titanium dioxide which happens to be a cheap ingredient found in sunscreen. According to a press release by the Nanyang Technological University, this particular ingredient acts as a catalyst to speed up the chemical reactions inside the battery and increase its charging speed.
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It has also been revealed by the researchers that this innovative battery pack can be recharged around 10000 times without any power degradation. This means, it can last for about 20 years before there’s any need to replace it.
Of course, it’s hard to imagine these fast-charging batteries entering our everyday smartphones any time soon, but the researchers have estimated that this could happen within the next two years.