{"id":446,"date":"2025-09-17T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:43:58","slug":"a-researcher-just-accidentally-developed-a-battery-that-could-last-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"A Researcher Just Accidentally Developed A Battery That Could Last A Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"7a19b57d3f502e506f541b4c6899bb20\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tatOptions = {\r\n\t\t'key' : '763760c8ca37b90150f32ad474f817c0',\r\n\t\t'format' : 'iframe',\r\n\t\t'height' : 250,\r\n\t\t'width' : 300,\r\n\t\t'params' : {}\r\n\t};\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/electthirteenth.com\/763760c8ca37b90150f32ad474f817c0\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Poor battery life is the favorite complaint when it involves smartphones and laptops. As a wireless society, having to tether ourselves right down to power up our gadgets seems more and more a nuisance. And while researchers are looking into wireless charging, if batteries were better we might worry less.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a brand new technology promises just that. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have invented a nanowire-based battery that may be recharged many thousands of times, a big leap towards a battery that doesn\u2019t require replacing.<\/p>\n<p>Nanowires possess several ideal characteristics for electric storage and transmission. they&#8217;re highly conductive and thousands of times thinner than somebody&#8217;s hair, which implies they&#8217;ll be arranged to supply an oversized area for electron transfer. Unfortunately, nanowires are usually very fragile and don\u2019t act after repeated charging and discharging.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, whose findings are published within the American Chemical Society\u2019s Energy Letters, have coated gold nanowires in manganese dioxide and cocooned them in an exceedingly Plexiglas-like gel. this mixture keeps all the properties of the nanowires&#8217; intact and makes them proof against fractures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjLyUuEKkv_HhZVbBdQv7vqVkVIAVTE0MCiZ7TZC7iGFDmcxFULU-94CuvX-RBLA5yDL9o9MeQ9HSVYl6uyYDf9RnAALxI-IeOAEedDIkL_D7b7gA-HCLL_-JrgkEf0w5cDHcAOJkTILp0\/w640-h424\/d1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"425\" data-original-width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mya Le Thai, the lead study author, has charged and discharged the battery up to 200,000 times without breaking the nanowires and without loss of capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMya was fooling around, and she or he coated this whole with a really thin gel layer and commenced to cycle it,\u201d said senior author Reginald Penner, chair of UCI\u2019s academic department, in a very statement. \u201cShe discovered that just by using this gel, she could cycle it many thousands of times without losing any capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was crazy,\u201d he added, \u201cbecause these items typically die in dramatic fashion after 5,000 or 6,000 or 7,000 cycles at the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers believe that the mix of the PMMA (plexiglass-like) gel electrolyte and therefore the magnesia gives flexibility and structure to the nanowires, preventing cracking and thus extending their operational life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coated electrode holds its shape far better, making it a more reliable option,\u201d Thai said. \u201cThis research proves that a nanowire-based battery electrode can have a protracted lifetime which we will make these types of batteries a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor battery life is the favorite complaint when it involves smartphones and laptops. As a wireless society, having to tether ourselves right down to power up our gadgets seems more and more a nuisance. And while researchers are looking into wireless charging, if batteries were better we might worry less. Now, a brand new technology\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/?p=446\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}