Posted on 05/19/2018 11:43:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A group of researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a new battery breakthrough that could have a big impact on runtimes for the gadgets. The researchers have developed new material that can address the two chief complaints of batteries used in electronic devices now: relatively runtimes life and unwanted heat production. The team has applied for a patent for a magnetic material that has a unique honeycomb lattice structure that offers distinct electronical properties.
“Semiconductor diodes and amplifiers, which often are made of silicon or germanium, are key elements in modern electronic devices,” said Deepak K. Singh, head researcher on the project, who also serves as the principal investigator of the Magnetism and Superconductivity Research Laboratory at MU. “A diode normally conducts current and voltage through the device along only one biasing direction, but when the voltage is reversed, the current stops. This switching process costs significant energy due to dissipation, or the depletion of the power source, thus affecting battery life. By substituting the semiconductor with a magnetic system, we believed we could create an energetically effective device that consumes much less power with enhanced functionalities.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at hothardware.com ...
I’m not saying they don’t have a breakthrough, but this seems to be in diodes not the battery itself. Like in your alternator diodes.
As stated in the excerpt — “By substituting the semiconductor with a magnetic system, we believed we could create an energetically effective device that consumes much less power with enhanced functionalities.”
If the device consumes less power then battery life is extended.
If the device produces less heat, battery life is also extended.
Never mind 100X. If these dudes can even achieve 10X improvement they’ll be rolling in dough....
Does the author actually speak English? From the first paragraph, it doesn’t seem to be the case. It reads like something from a Google translation.
Some of the sentences make sense. Others do not. I wouldn’t hold my breath on this one. Right now, the logic as written appears to parallel that of your typical climate “scientist”.
Ha ha. Reminds me of an old episode of Bonanza, I think it was. When Little Joe had the brainstorm of a honeycomb structure for some sort of mining tunnel they were building.
The battery market is too big to mess with....this will be squelched (bought out) just as mega-efficient carburetors were/are bought up so as not to allow a patent.
I was thinking similar thoughts.
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The author of this screed has about zero understanding of physics.
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100X is a rather large increase (unless there is a severe lack in use of standard current battery for whatever products this pronouncement is using as its example).
Not to frighten anyone, but the energy density of high end batteries is equivalent to having a bomb in your pocket - which IF it fails catastrophically will cause severe injuries.
Which means that : consumer safety requires engineering not just ‘higher capacity’, but also HIGHLY reliable stability for such batteries.
“we believed we could create”
Let us know only WHEN you actually DO.
Countless people have PROPOSED ways of turning Excrement into GOLD, and then never delivered.
“Honeycomb Battery Tech Breakthrough Could Bring 100X Improvement In Device Runtime”
or not. in fact, most likely not, based on past results of such announcements. almost none of these AMAZING battery tech breakthroughs for the last 30 years have panned out. at best, incremental improvements are the only things that have occurred ...
Lots of morons don’t know chemistry or physics making these wild claims for investors.
The only things they know is fizzics.
I’ve seen a lot of battery breakthroughs in the last couple decades. None have gone commercial.
Alleged new wrinkle (material) in forming electronic device components, such that semiconductor dissipation during a transition (on<—>off) may be reduced 100-fold. Nothing to do with building a battery.
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-device-battery-life-electronic-devices.html
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