Samsung and MIT have found a way to make your battery last forever

[jamezr]

This looks very promising! Who doesn't want batteries that last forever?

Samsung just might have the holy grail of batteries on their hands. The company, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has figured out a way to make batteries last 'indefinitely'.

How do they perform magical feat, you ask? Batteries usually use a liquid as the electrolyte - the solution through which electricity is conducted - but Samsung and MIT believe that replacing this with a solid could increase the life of a battery exponentially.

Usually, when a battery is charged, it gradually starts degrading and this is why you need replace the battery in most electronics after a few years. By changing the electrolyte to a solid, however, this degradation is stemmed and would allow the battery to potentially undergo "hundreds of thousands of cycles" of recharging and discharging.

http://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-and-mit-have-found-a-way-to-make-your-battery-last-forever

 

[mclld]

Samsung pushing breakthrough tech left and right and still cant get TW right

 

[jamezr]

Samsung pushing breakthrough tech left and right and still cant get TW right

LOL.....i thought about that when I was reading the article pull a couple engineers over to the TW team and get to work!

 

[Mihailo]

I think that's not possible. Maybe in the near future
Sony should be a part of this "project". I believe Samsung can't do anything.



Michael

 

[Fernandez21]

So does this mean a charge would last indefinately or that the battery won't degrade but still have to be charged?

 

[gotluck]

So does this mean a charge would last indefinately or that the battery won't degrade but still have to be charged?

I interpreted it as a much slower degradation rate

 

[Mihailo]

I interpreted it as a much slower degradation rate

Probably it will be like that. Battery can't last forever.



Michael

 

[stroked]

Probably it will be like that. Battery can't last forever.



Michael

Yes but it would be good if it lasted as long as the device it was installed in.

 

[spriter]

I'm all for battery tech improvements regardless of who makes the breakthrough.

Patent it, licence it, roll it out to the masses

 

[grkm3]

It's definitely not charge cycles in battery life for me I bought a really nice expensive ultra book laptop 2 years ago but maybe used it 5 times(impule buy) and I plugged it in to install Windows 10 and the battery stats at zero % and won't charge.

It maybe has 5 charge cycles on it

 

[Tsepz]

It's definitely not charge cycles in battery life for me I bought a really nice expensive ultra book laptop 2 years ago but maybe used it 5 times(impule buy) and I plugged it in to install Windows 10 and the battery stats at zero % and won't charge.

It maybe has 5 charge cycles on it

A lithium battery requires frequent charge cycles, 5 in 2years would definitely have it degrade significantly.

 

[kepler20b]

nice! solid state batteries