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Boffins boost battery life by factor of 10 - report

Lithium ion filings
Tue Jan 15 2008, 18:41

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

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Fill the battery with filings

do they supply the tool for the production of those filings?...

posted by : HP Bodmer, 17 January 2008 Complain about this comment
Ask Dell

Might be ignorance but does this mean that the batteries explode 10 times more violently?

posted by : Deimios, 15 January 2008 Complain about this comment
WMD

Does that mean they have ten times the killzone when they explode?


posted by : Richard, 15 January 2008 Complain about this comment
Wow...

You must have had a good Christmas/New Year...

You already reported on this on Dec 20th 2007!

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/nanowire-batteries-ten-times

posted by : Steve, 15 January 2008 Complain about this comment
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