Great discoveries often occur as a result of errors. California University Student Case, which created a battery made of gold, magnesium dioxide and electrolyte gel, only proves it.
You probably noticed that the more often you charge your mobile phone, the worse the battery becomes? Batteries with nanowire-based electrodes have high conductivity and large area for transferring and storing electrons. In practice, they degrade from a large number of charging cycles-discharge. In lithium-ion batteries, nanowires become fragile and broken.
It was this problem that the graduate student of the Chemistry Faculty of California University Miya Le Tai was trying to solve. Her supervisor claims that so far such electrodes have hardly experienced, at best, 6-7 thousand charging cycles. And if you take into account how often we charge our mobile devices, then at all by 5 thousand maximum.
Experimenting in a laboratory with various materials, Maya Le Tha Thai caused magnesium dioxide on the golden nanowire and all this was covered with electrolyte gel.
Such a mixture was supposed to be more durable, durable and flexible. But none of the participants in the experiment did not even imagine how much longer!
In the course of the experiments, the created Le Tay Thai stand for 3 months increased 200 thousand cycles, while no signs of wear were recorded.
What does this mean for devices that will work on such a battery?
By modest estimates, a nanoaccumulator turned out for your smartphone or laptop, with a practically unlimited number of charging-discharge cycles, which can work for 400 years.
And when to wait for mass production?
Unfortunately, Tai batteries are made in the literal sense of gold - and therefore the creation of mass production using all components looks like a certain problem. Let's say the phone with such a battery will be unreasonably roads, and it will almost impossible to sell it.
So scientists have to learn all the properties of the battery and create analogs. It is assumed that it is thanks to the electrolyte gelet, a nanowire becomes flexible, it is better to hold the form and does not break.
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