University of California at Irvine (UCI) found out that Maia Le ThaiA chemistry student and doctoral candidate who belongs to Dr Penner’s select group could have invented A Battery That Could Be “Eternal”,
According to the report published on the Enseñame de Ciencia website, this battery has a Lifespan of 400 years and can be recharged infinitely,
The discovery could help in areas such as electric cars and electronic devices that require batteries, as the recharging cycle is finite (between 1,000 and 8,000 recharges) and, when it is complete, the battery must be discarded. . Furthermore, their recycling is terrible: old batteries cannot be reused and the manufacturing material is highly polluting for both the environment and people.
What would be the solution to this problem? Well, an “eternal” battery, with better technology and one that can be recharged infinitely, reduces production costs and its harmful footprint against the Earth.
Maya Le Thai’s “Eternal” Battery
Mya Le Thai discovered a way to reinforce gold nanowires in batteries. To generate a more robust structure, sprayed a layer of manganese dioxide and then wrapped the wires in an electrolyte made of a gel that looked like Plexiglas,
The unexpected happened: working together with this mix, Made gold nanowires unbreakable, It is important to remember that gold is an important semiconductor of electricity.
In the second phase, the chemistry student tested the battery by exposing it to charge and discharge for more than three months, until it reached 200,000 recharges, which is an extremely high figure. With this exercise, Doctor from the future invented this infinite battery that could replace traditional lithium batteries,
