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Well, a team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine in the United Stats has developed a new ultra long lasting battery, and that too by an accident. According to a study published in the journal Energy Letters revealed the UCI research behind this cool battery could revolutionise the future of batteries.

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A doctoral candidate named Mya Le Thai was reportedly playing around in the lab when she coated a set of gold nanowires in manganese dioxide before applying a ‘Plexiglas-like’ electrolyte gel.

Nanowires, are microscopic, ultra-thin and highly conductive fibers, that are fragile in nature and go on for about 8,000 charge cycles. But, surprisingly, these nanowires in Thai’s gel-coated battery remained intact even after three months of tests.

The experts are suspecting that the gel caused the metal oxide in the battery to plasticize, providing its nanowires a new found flexibility and longevity. Thai added that the coated electrode holds its shape much better.

During the test, the UCI nanobattery was able to endure up to 200,000 charge cycles with 94–96% average Coulombic efficiency. Yet, the battery was still rated as a brand new one after the experiment was over.

Did you know that the average laptop battery has a lifespan of 300-500 charge cycles?

But with 1,000 cycles every two years, a laptop using UCI’s nanobattery would probably last last for 400 years, which could fairly be called forever.

Previously, a record of 40,000 charge cycles was made by a nanobattery set in a different configuration at Stanford in 2007.

If such batteries become commercial, we see a big revolution coming up for the electronic industry.

And we really don’t mind that! Do you?