Nowadays, almost everyone has a cell phone, a laptop or an iPod. The usefulness of these devices are known to everyone and that’s why they are so much common but what troubles the users most of the time is the charge remaining time of the battery to make these devices to operate, and this problem gets more attention when the user lacks frequent charging when in travel for instance, unless he has other means of mobile charging.

But what if there is a way to retain battery charge for 10x times than earlier? Would it be not a big WOW? Researchers have find a way for it. For example, an ordinary mobile phone that now operates 6 days in stand-by mode when fully charged, would be able to operate for 60 days, that’s exactly multiplied by 10 times! Laptops, iPods and battery operated devices would also be able to benefit us this way.

The modification that has been done with the battery is of it’s anode, which was of Carbon and has been replaced with Silicon nanowires due to it’s ability to retain much more Lithium. To put it simpler, the more the Lithium is stored in battery’s anode, the better will the battery perform.

Could you think of having a stand-by time of two months for your device before reading this post? Now it is going to get materialize soon and these batteries are expected to be manufactured in 2008.

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