Here’s an awesome new battery technology that will never make it into your phone

[Guest Mike Wehner]

Stop me if you've heard this one before: an awesome, revolutionary, life-changing battery technology was just developed by researchers, allowing smartphones to last longer with less degradation over time, and maybe it'll end up in your next device. Cool, right? This latest breakthrough in battery design comes from Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, where professor Christopher Wolverton has devised a new method of designing lithium ion batteries that helps manufacturers determine the perfect cathode coating material to use. In theory, the new system would make batteries more reliable as they age, with less degradation in charge capacity. Unfortunately, we'll probably never benefit from it, because mobile device battery technology is cursed.

 

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