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Now charge your battery full in just 30 secs.

An Israeli firm, Storedot has created a new material inspired by nature that can charge smartphone batteries within seconds. Earlier this week they unveiled a prototype for a new kind of battery based on amino acids and peptides, the basic building blocks of nature.

The idea to use these kind of natural chemical compounds started when one of the founders, professor Gil Rosenman, was researching a cure for Alzheimer at the Tel Aviv University 10 years ago.

"They were able to isolate specific amino acids that interfered in the brain's electrical charge, so when we began working together, we saw that we could create nanocrystals from these amino acids, that could charge devices much faster that regular batteries," said Doron Myersdorf, CEO and cofounder of StoreDot.


These tiny conductive nanocrystals can charge the battery of a smartphone from zero to 100 percent in half-a-minute, providing up to two hours of battery. Not bad for a start though.
The size of the actual battery and charge is similar now to that of a laptop computer, but the firm believes that it will take only one year to bring it down to a regular size.

 "We're working to improve the time to allow the user to have a full charge the whole day, not just two or three hours and we are also trying to shrink the size of the battery itself," Myersdorf said.

The team is now focused on improving their prototype, but is planning to work on other related usages of these battery, like laptop computers and electric cars.
These new batteries being still under development, it might take 2 years to begin its production. Such green innovations are appreciated much and welcomed with open arms.

Check out the demo video below :

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