{"id":90265,"date":"2016-04-25T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90265"},"modified":"2016-04-25T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T09:30:51","slug":"accidental-breakthrough-scientists-invent-battery-that-could-last-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/90265-accidental-breakthrough-scientists-invent-battery-that-could-last-forever","title":{"rendered":"Accidental breakthrough – Scientists invent battery that could last forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a battery technology<\/a> <\/strong>that greatly increases lifespan and could mean never having to replace a battery again.<\/p>\n

Lithium-ion\u00a0batteries (used in everything from PS4 controllers to iPhones) see capacity dramatically drop after being recharged between 5,000 and 7,000 times.<\/p>\n

Using nanowires, the researchers at UCI were able to create a battery that went through 200,000 recharge cycles without losing any capacity.<\/p>\n

That equates to 400 times longer battery-life<\/strong>, and means that in the course of everyday usage the battery would never have to be replaced.<\/p>\n

The researchers are not certain why the battery lasted as long as it did, as the experiment was originally designed\u00a0 to make a new kind of solid-state battery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started to cycle the devices, and then realized that they weren\u2019t going to die,\u201d Reginald Penner, a lead author of a paper on the research published\u00a0in the\u00a0American Chemical Society\u2019s\u00a0Energy Letters<\/a><\/strong>, said. \u201cWe don\u2019t understand the mechanism of that yet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the use of gold in consumer electronics is prohibitively expensive, this breakthrough could mean less time waiting for smartphones and controllers to charge.<\/p>\n

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