How Battery Technology is Charging Ahead

by JUNHE CHEN · January 21, 2016

Cited from EdTech

Rutrell Yasin is a freelance writer with more than 30 years of experience writing about the application of information technology in business and government.

Innovations in microchips and semiconductors keep pushing advances in mobile computing devices, yet the battery technology that helps power those same devices remains stagnated. By some accounts, lithium-ion batteries haven’t changed much over the past 15 years.

That could change soon with developments in next-generation solid-state batteries. Vacuum manufacturer Dyson’s recent investment in a solid-state battery research lab has raised the profile of the emerging technology. And academic researchers and industry heavyweights such as Samsung are working to develop better batteries.