Despite its cutthroat nature, the mobile device market can be quite predictable in terms of innovation, which is mostly restricted to just a handful of areas. What’s more, most of the innovation that we see is evolutionary. But to quote late Apple founder Steve Jobs, “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” That’s exactly the kind of breakthrough researchers at Northwestern University seem to have stumbled upon.
In a breakthrough that could have implications for everything from cellphones to electric cars, a team of engineers at Northwestern University have managed to improve energy capacity and charge rate in lithium-ion batteries by a factor of 10.
