Scientist Designs Nanosized Batteries to power mobiles

WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin scientist-led team in the US has packagedlithium ion batteries into asingle nanowire, which they claim could soon be a rechargeable power source for new generations ofnanoelectronics.

Prof Pulickel Ajayan and colleagues at Rice University claim their creation is as small as such devices can possibly get, in their research published in American Chemical Society journal ‘Nano Letters’.

In their research, the scientists tested two versions of their battery.
The paper describes two models of battery/supercapacitor hybrid being tested by scientists. The first system comprises polyaniline cathode layers, polyethylene oxide (PEO) electrolyte and nickel/tin anode. The system would allow lithium ions to..................

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