NEW LI-ION BATTERIES

Researchers at Stanford have developed the next generation Li-ion batteries which have the ability to increase the battery life of notebooks and similar devices up to ten times. This means that a standard laptop whose battery runs for two hours will now be able to run for about 20 hours continuously. The ground breaking technology used for these high performance Li-ion batteries uses anodes with silicon nanowires in place of carbon. Silicon is already used in many semiconductor devices and this new silicon based technology can be further developed to make it compatible for standard notebooks and other devices.