A University of California student is trending for all the good reasons: now we have a phone battery that would last for more than 400 years, thanks to Mya Le Thai who discovered the battery during research at the university.
The PhD student was researching the properties of nanowires made of gold and embedded in a special electrolyte gel. In the process, the battery survived 200.000 charge cycles in three months without any loss of performance, which means it can power a normal smartphone for more than 400 years.
„That was crazy,“ said Reginald Penner, leader of the chemistry faculty of the University. „Usually these Batteries decline rapidly after only five or six thousand cycles, seven thousand at the most.“
The researchers are performing more tests to come up with an ideal battery that would solve mobile users’ problems of battery power. If the market product is unveiled, then users would not have issues with battery life.
Currently, a normal battery lasts for a maximum of two weeks, but if it’s consumed by a smartphone, the battery lasts for few hours before it dies down.