HOUSTON: Scientists have developed a high-powered, environmentally-safe lithium-sulphur battery with a significantly longer life.
“Common lithium-ion batteries only have a certain capacity,” said Kyeongjae Cho, a professor at The University of Texas at Dallas in the US.
“And most people want to use their phones for a longer time,” said Cho.
Many smartphone users are familiar with the shelf life of lithium-ion batteries. Sometimes a charge can last roughly a day.
Cho, along with research associate Jeongwoon Hwang, worked with other regional scientists to improve lithium-sulphur batteries, long considered by many to be an evolution from lithium-ion batteries.
Lithium-sulphur batteries have important advantages over lithium-ion batteries.
According to Cho, they are less expensive to make, weigh less, store almost twice the energy of lithium-ion batteries and are better for the environment.
“A lithium-sulphur battery is what most of the research community thinks is the next generation of battery,” Cho said.
“It has a capacity of about three to five times higher than lithium-ion batteries, meaning if you are used to a phone lasting for three hours, you can use it for nine to 15 hours with a lithium-sulphur battery,” he said.
However, lithium-sulphur batteries are not without problems. (AGENCIES)
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