New type of battery can charge 10x faster

[Eldorado]

Researchers in Russia have developed a new type of battery technology that they say can charge approximately 10 times faster than existing lithium-ion batteries – a speed-up that could offer huge time-saving advantages if it got rolled out in everyday devices.

"A battery manufactured using our polymer will charge in seconds – about 10 times faster than a traditional lithium-ion battery," says electrochemistry researcher Oleg Levin from St Petersburg University. "This has already been demonstrated through a series of experiments."

The key to the new batteries is a kind of nitroxyl-based redox polymer, a material that can undergo reversible oxidation (loss of electrons) and reduction (gain of electrons) when it discharges and charges.

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-type-of-battery-can-charge-10-times-faster-than-current-lithium-ion-batteries