It's long-lasting, fast charging and inexpensive. It has a high-charged storage capacity and low flammability. With the introduction of curved and bendy technology, this battery is perfect replacement to the lithium powered batteries.
What makes these batteries different from regular lithium batteries? Lithium batteries in their own right were a breakthrough in technology during the early 90s. Never had there been a battery that contained so much energy in very little density, and with the improvement of technology overtime, research on ways to create batteries which can hold even more energy were underway and with people being more and more dependent and interlocked with technology, the pressure on scientists to find a solution to this increased drastically. The problems that are faced with batteries now is that the lithium batteries are not long lasting and tend to decay overtime. A regular battery can recharge an appliance over 1000 times before it starts to decay. If a person charges a phone once a day, then the charger will last a little under 3 years and this is if the person charges the phone and immediately unplugs it after the phone reaches 100%. Some people are prone to charging their phone all night or forget that they are charging their phone and are oblivious to the fact that they are reducing the capacity significantly of the 1000 full charges, losing the life of the charger significantly. With the aluminum batteries, the appliances can be charged over 7500 times, before it starts to decay. Due to the fact that the phone will take about a minute to charge, people are more likely to remember to unplug it, because, let's be honest here, people have very short attention spans (have you heard of vine?).
So how do these batteries work? In scientific terms, this battery uses an aluminum metal anode and a three-dimensional graphitic-foam cathode, which operates through the electrochemical deposition and dissolution of aluminium at the anode, and intercalation/de-intercalation of chloroaluminate anions in the graphite, using a non-flammable ionic liquid electrolyte.
In simple terms, the battery uses carbon based graphite as the base and when reacting the graphite with aluminum and a salty ionic liquid, it formed and electric current which is then converted into energy. For all the chemical enthusiasts out there, when a salt combines and reacts with certain liquids, it is separated into its component parts and the energy that is used to separate it is then forms into an electric current. For example, table salt's formula is NaCl or sodium chloride. Sodium chloride is separated into Na+1 and Cl-1 and because it separates, or disassociates, completely, a strong electric current is formed. Because many compounds don't separate completely, like sugar, a very weak electric current is formed. Going off of this principle, batteries are made, but the formula to create the most long-lasting, durable and cheap battery is still underway as the aluminum battery is not perfect as of yet. There are still lots of research being conducted but as of now, it isn't set to hit the markets.
That's a lot of science to be taking in this early on a Friday morning but if there's a new product that will charge my phone in a minute I'm definitely listening! As someone who charges her phone overnight, I am well aware of the fact that overcharging will reduce the efficiency of your battery but really, who has time to unplug their phone. Downside to this this battery is that I guess from now on, people will be even less likely to leave their phones!
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