June 8, 2006
Super Battery
Researchers at MIT are developing a battery that could charge cellphone or laptop batteries in a few seconds rather than hours, and also might never need to be replaced. ScienCentralNews reports.
" Joel Schindall and his team at M.I.T. plan to make long charge times and expensive replacements a thing of the past--by improving on technology from the past, called capacitors. Capacitors contain energy as an electric field of charged particles created by two metal electrodes and charge faster and last longer than normal batteries.
... Schindall and his team aren't the only ones looking back to capacitors as the future of batteries; a research group in England recently announced advances of their own. But Schindall's groups expects their prototype to be finished in the next few months, and they hope to see them on the market in less than five years."
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