We just came across a wild piece of news. While there have been some major breakthroughs in battery technology in recent years, today’s revelation by StoreDot just about takes the cake. StoreDot is a pretty unique company:

StoreDot is a company with a ground-breaking technology, based on its discovery of new generation, self-assembled Nanodots of biological origin. Representing elementary biological building blocks, these multifunctional Nanodots are at the core of several patented innovations by StoreDot, and constitute the future nanotechnology and advanced nano-photonic devices, including smartphones, TV’s, energy storage devices and more.¹

On Monday April 7th, StoreDot unveiled a new super fast charging battery. At the Microsoft Think Next conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, “StoreDot demonstrated the prototype of its ultra-fast-charge battery for the first time. Incredibly, this means smartphone users will be able to charge their phones in less time than StoreDot needs to explain how this cutting-edge technology works.”² StoreDot’s rapid charger utilizes their Nanodot technology, “derived from bio-organic material that, due to their size, have both increased electrode capacitance and electrolyte performance, resulting in batteries that can be fully charged in minutes rather than hours.”³ StoreDot CEO, Doron Myersdorf, recently spoke with Gizmag, noting that: 

In essence, we have developed a new generation of electrodes with new materials – we call it MFE – Multi Function Electrode…On one side it acts like a supercapacitor (with very fast charging), and on the other is like a lithium electrode (with slow discharge). The electrolyte is modified with our nanodots in order to make the multifunction electrode more effective.⁴

This announcement is pretty remarkable. Phone charging time, which once took a matter of hours, has been reduced to a matter of seconds. I, for one, can not wait to get my hands on this technology.