The Silicon Nanowire Battery

Have you ever been in the middle of an important phone call on your cell phone and a couple minutes into the call your phone battery just died? A new information technology will change rechargeable batteries for our gadgets as we know it. Stanford researchers discovered a way to create the new silicon nanowire battery which is a rechargeable battery that can hold ten times more power than the batteries used today.

Dr. Yi Cui, Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering at Stanford University invented this revolutionary development. In an interview, he explained that silicon nanowires have been around for quite some time but they have never been applied to batteries before. He has filed for a patent and hopes to partner up with a battery manufacturing company to bring the new silicon nanowire battery into the market soon.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/247725

http://www.discusswireless.com/blog/new-silicon-nanowire-battery-has-10-times-more-power-than-the-usual-lithium-ion-cellphone-batteries/

http://www.westernlithium.com/_resources/in-the-news/GM-Voltcom-interview-with-Dr-Cui.pdf

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