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Indian-American teen invents device to charge mobile phone batteries in 20 seconds
Indian-American teen invents device to charge mobile phone batteries in 20 seconds
A super capacitor device could potentially recharge your phone's battery in about 20 seconds.
Eesha Khare, an Indian - American girl from Saratoga, California, has invented a new device that could be the solution to all recharging related troubles for our portable devices like mobile phones in the future. Known as a super-capacitor, it would enable devices to recharge and regain battery power in as less as 20 seconds.
According to Eesha’s project, ‘Design and synthesis of hydrogenated TiO2-polyaniline nanorods for flexible high-performance supercapacitors’, with the rapid growth of portable electronics, it has become necessary to develop efficient energy-storage technology. While batteries are used for storing energy, they suffer from long charging times and short life cycles. The project aimed to design and synthesise a supercapacitor with increased energy density while maintaining power density and long life cycle. Eesha specialises in using nanotechnology.
The device can last for 10,000 charge-recharge cycles, compared with 1,000 cycles for conventional rechargeable batteries, according to media reports.
For developing the device, California-based Eesha has been named one of the three winners and has received $50,000 as cash prize at Intel Foundation’s Young Scientist Award recently held in Phoenix, the US. As of now the device has been tested on LED light. But, it can be used for mobile and car batteries and other portable electronic devices.
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