Israeli start-up firm StoreDot has unveiled a smartphone battery capable of being recharged in 30 seconds.
According to Business Wire, the nanotechnology pioneer introduced the fast-charging battery during a demonstration at Microsoft's Think Next symposium in Tel Aviv yesterday.
StoreDot is a privately-owned nanotechnology start-up, incorporated in Israel in 2012, which develops technologies that apply bioorganic nanodots to mobile displays and energy storage devices.
StoreDot says the battery works through the use of "nanodots", derived from bioorganic 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.
The company says the "multifunctional" nanodots the technology is based on are at the core of several of its patented innovations. "[Nanodots] constitute the future [of] nanotechnology and advanced nano-photonic devices, including smartphones, TVs, energy storage devices and more.
"These nano-crystals are uniform in size, two nanometres in diameter, and consist of bioorganic peptide molecules."
Peptides are small proteins that have been associated with weight loss and body building. They have been recommended for burning fat, building muscle, and improving athletic performance.
In August last year, StoreDot announced it had received $6 million (about R63 million, as at 8 April 2014) from several strategic and private investors. At the time, StoreDot said it would use the funds to further advance its technology in mobile devices from the prototype stage to commercialisation.
A demo video of StoreDot's latest smartphone battery innovation can be viewed here.
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