Charge Your Phone In 30 Seconds Flat!

A fast-charger that uses bio-organic peptides.

With developments in the effervescent field of nanotechnology, we should prep ourselves to be amazed by sci-fi-like products that will soon become available to the average-Indian consumer!

Be it self-healing materials used to manufacture devices, to materials that can protect you against bacteria and virus, or the use of organic compounds in areas hitherto unexplored.

Life’s about to change!

In fact, the technology we’re going to talk about in this article, is actually a derivative of something yielded in research studies that are were originally conducted to look for a cure for Alzheimer’s!

StoreDot is a nanotechnology company that is actively involved in innovating device displays, image sensors, data storage, batteries and even biomedicines.

Along the way, StoreDot has developed Nanodots — nano-crystals made up of bio-organic peptide that are about a nanometer in radius and can be used to harvest energy and convert it to electricity!

As stated earlier, these nano-crystals were are an outcome of a research project at Tel Aviv University that was exploring potential cures for Alzheimer’s about a decade ago!

Researchers found these nano-crystals to have charge-trapping properties, amongst others, in line with fluorescence in the visible region (which is being explored for our display devices).

StoreDot has been able to utilize these intrinsic characteristics of the nano-crystals to experiment with creating advanced components for mobile devices.

One such area of their research is the power supply side of things.

They’ve come out with a charger that powers up your phone battery from 0–100% in less than a minute!

I’ll wait for you for a minute to re-read that last statement, and let it sink in.

The size of the battery that they’re using in the current stage is thicker than the Lithium -Ion battery available and is estimated to cost twice the current cost of manufacturing Li-Ion batteries.

That aside, one of definite benefits of these new types of batteries is in the use of biological structures (bio-organic peptides) such that they are actually five times more powerful than a conventional battery.

The company has said that while they’ve developed the technology, however they are still in the process of refining it. They want to reduce the size of the battery and the charger for ease of use.

StoreDot wants to release the technology for the consumption of the public by 2016.

Founder Dr. Don Myersdorf informed news agencies, saying, “We think we can integrate a battery into a smartphone within a year and have a commercially ready device in three years”.

Well, we’re definitely waiting for StoreDot’s non-toxic and more efficient power source to be commercially available to us soon, so that we can stop relying on the rapidly-depletable and rather environment-unfriendly Li-Ion batteries!

Originally published at Chip-Monks.