New Battery Technology Charges Faster,

Nov-25-16 A new battery technology using 2D metal materials could open the door to fast charging batteries that can hold their charge for weeks.

Conventional supercapacitor batteries rely upon sheets of material with a large surface area able to hold a lot of electrons. While that sheet has typically been made with graphene, the technology from the University of Central Florida replaces graphene with 2D metal materials (TDMs) only a few atom thick. These TDMs are wrapped around conductive wires, which lets the electrons quickly from the core to the shell, resulting in a fast-charging, power dense material.

Though still in the proof-of-concept phase, the team believes the material could lead to EVs that can be charged in minutes, and smartphones that can be charged in just seconds.

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