Boffins boost battery life by factor of 10 - report

STANFORD UNIVERSITY boffineers claim to have made a breakthrough on lithium ion batteries that could make carrying your cable and brick around a thing of the past. In the future.

According to a report on news.com, the boffins are using silicon nanowires rather than graphite as an anode.

Silicon anodes have a high charge capacity but the batteries don’t last very long, but using nanowires overcomes this limitation.

It’s early days yet, but the boffs look like they’re on the road to success, it says here. µ