14 DAY TRIAL // Since mobile gadgets are becoming more and more prominent, the need for good but small batteries has never been stronger, and is only likely to become stronger still, which is why every idea for improving battery capacity and life is welcome.
Chinese scientists have just revealed one such idea, though they haven't managed to make it any easier to implement on a consumer level than all other concepts so far shown.
Then again, that isn't the primary concern. The main goal was to improve the surface area of energy storage capacity.
The scientists have achieved this by using sheets of cobalt oxide (close to graphene, but not the same) with a thickness of around one atom.
In addition to storage capacity surface area, it boosted electron transportation.
All in all, they are a good solution to preventing the pulverization of nanostructured electrodes which, while they increase the capacity of lithium-ion batteries, are also flimsier in their normal form.