14 DAY TRIAL // Soon, the charging of mobile phones might end up taking less than a minute, courtesy of an invention that brought 18-year-old Eesha Khare of Saratoga, Calif. a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair.
She created a so-called supercapacitor that can be fully charged in around 20 seconds, and which can store a lot of energy in a small space.
The invention could turn conventional rechargeable batteries into a thing of the past, as it can also last for over 10,000 charge-recharge cycles, 10 times more than today’s batteries, a story on msn reads.
The supercapacitor hasn’t been used to power a cellphone as of yet, but the teen says that it could easily fit inside these products, and that it would also offer more advantages over batteries, given that it is flexible.
Eesha Khare won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her invention.