A professor at the Universities of Tufts university, located in Massachusetts, United States, has created a new battery that is cheaper and much more secure than the current ones that are inside of the smartphone current. And that could prevent the repetition of the problems faced by the Galaxy Note 7.
it Is good to remember that even this week, Samsung SDI, manufacturer of the first battery defective Note 7, went through a fire. The south Korean manufacturer of smartphones announced new security measures in the manufacturing of batteries and is investing in the development of more secure components.
A program on PBS that addressed various issues related to the batteries of the future, showed that the source of energy created by professor Mike Zimmerman has no risk of fire, even after being hit by sharp objects or not.
In the program, the battery is punished while holding an iPad on (without the internal battery) and even after being pierced and cut, still working. In addition to not having a risk of fire, the new component also does not heat up excessively. The site 9to5Google explained thus:
Zimmerman, CEO of Ionic Materials, took things a step above when creating their impressive batteries to replace the liquid electrolyte and the separator with a special polymer plastic which creates a battery completely solid. Which also addresses the nature of the fuel completely.
While the liquid electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries traditional is flammable, the electrolyte plastic Zimmerman is flame retardant. Interestingly, in spite of the new electrolyte is used in the new battery to be solid, it still allows the passage of ions as well as or even better than the liquid version.
These batteries, moreover, are cheaper to produce than those that are on the market today. The polymer plastic uses the same manufacturing process that the supermarket bags, for example. And the benefits don’t stop there:
the icing on The cake is that the use of this plastic prevents dendrites from causing short-circuit in the batteries, which allows the use of an electrode metal that can double the energy density of a battery.
Everything seems to a wonder, and then something may not be right, isn’t it? The issue is that the very Zimmerman believes that there are still many challenges ahead for its plastic battery. And he cites two: tests of reliability and how this battery of next generation will become commercially viable.
He says that for this battery to arrive to the market, you will need some partners that are really committed with the evolution of batteries. We will not see this type of battery in new Android smartphones this year or next, but it is not an exaggeration to imagine that, in less than five years, these batteries can change very much the vision of what the smartphone can do or become.
