Nano-diamond self charging batteries may change energy as we know it.
The Californian company NDB which made these batteries explains that they have superior density and can last anywhere from a decade to 28,000 years without having to be charged.
The startup notes that they have successfully created this universal and self-charging nano-diamond battery with a breakthrough of 40 percent charge.
This is a major improvement from the commercial diamonds with only 15 percent charge efficiency.
Nanodiamond Surface Treatment Batteries: Major Breakthrough
The two proofs of the concept were led by the physicist from Cambridge University Sir Michael Pepper.
The 40 percent charged achieved happened thanks to the nanodiamond surface which extracts the electric charge from the diamond and allows the battery to use more power than any other battery previously.
Nima Golsharifi, the CEO and founder of NDB, said in a media statement that their team brought leaders in nanotechnology, nuclear science, and diamond fields with research, academic, and military background to combine their knowledge and expertise to crack the code for this life-changing and groundbreaking solution.
Golsharifi also added that they’re worried about the planet and their focus is to reduce climate change and keep the planet safe for the generations to come.
Thanks to this battery, which is emission-free and lasts thousands of years, they’re going in that direction.
‘Thousands of years’ stands for around 28,000 years of battery life for rockets, cell phones, machinery, sensors, and more.
The executive of the company notes that they have already secured 2 beta customers for their solution-one is a leader in nuclear fuel cycle products and services and the other a leading global aerospace, defense, and security manufacturing company.
They expect the development of the first NDB commercial prototype to be available later this year.
How Does the Battery Work?
The battery, known as Diamond Nuclear Voltaic, is a combo of semiconductor, metal, and ceramic and has 2 contact surfaces to ease the charge collection.
Several units are attached together to make a stack arrangement fabricated to create positive and negative contact surface that’s similar to a common battery system.
Inside the battery, the radioisotopes are placed to ease the inelastic scattering originated of the presence of a crystalline diamond in the unit.
The stacks and source are also coated with polycrystalline diamond-the most thermally-conductive and hardest material that also contains the radiation in the device.
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