Fast smartphone charge technology based on biological semiconductors

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A Tel Aviv start-up has developed technology that charges a smartphone battery to full capacity in under a minute.

StoreDot, which is managed by Dr Doron Myersdorf and directed by chief scientists Prof Gil Rosenman and Prof Simon Litsyn of Tel Aviv University’s (TAU) School of Electrical Engineering, recently presented a new prototype battery compatible with the Samsung Galaxy 4 that can be charged to full capacity in just 30 seconds. StoreDot is currently in the process of developing the device for use in other brands of smartphone.

The technology is based on so-called nanodots derived from bioorganic material. Because of to their size and unique physical and electrochemical properties, nanodots increase electrode capacity and electrolyte performance, resulting in development of a new type of battery that can be fully charged in minutes rather than hours. These biological semiconductors are made from peptides, which are short chains of amino acids that constitute the building blocks of proteins.

Early research on the peptide technologies and their applications was conducted at both Tel Aviv University and Tower Jazz Semiconductors.

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