From the outlet to the outlet or waiting for BATTERIES of the future!?

From the success of the introduction of new technologies of batteries depends on the further development of many areas, and especially consumer electronics.

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For most, like for me for a long time was the question: Why is technology frozen in place? After all, for many years not any noticeable changes (except for care to the masses so-called powerbank for charging your devices on the go).

It is strange to observe that the large-capacity batteries more can be found from Chinese manufacturers, and the world tops Apple mobile devices and Samsung allegedly did not pay it any attention. Or the whole problem started a few years ago, "the struggle for the size/thickness of the devices" depends on the development of batteries!?

It is worth mentioning that Li-ion batteries created in the 70-ies still occupy a large part of the modern market (and came from Sony in 1991). Later launched and lithium-polymer (Li-Po), the main advantage of which has become a form of media (now and Li-Ion capable, see the battery iPhone).

For more than 25 years there have been various developments, which did not provide a balanced solution "price-quality" for the mass production of and replace known types of batteries.

Alternative battery technology:

• lithium-sulfur three times the current capacity, but "at odds" with the humidity and low temperature
• aluminum-ion can be recharged for a couple of minutes with a huge resource of life, but give too low a voltage
• lithium silicon good everything, except a resource, as become useless at 100 cycles (although after updating, the potential is huge, but expensive)
• lithium-oxygen affordable and energy-intensive, however, wear quickly and emit a lot of excess heat
• graphene with the excellent capacity and speed, but so far there's only laboratory samples

The largest producers of consumer electronics mainly focus on a revision of current Li-Ion technologies increasing their opportunities to +20% year-on-year while maintaining/reducing the size of the elements.

Much time is spent on approaches to energy saving: optimization of technological process of manufacture of processors (20 nm > 14 nm), memory (+ transition DDR3 > DDR4) , displays (AMOLED), it should be noted - leads to a significant reduction in the energy consumption. Introducing the charging efficiency, etc QuickCharge (top-end model of the same Samsung charged for 1 hour), widely spread contactless charging.

Special attention is given to technology development of solid electrolyte for the familiar lithium-ion batteries (which potential will give +30% capacity, much longer service life without degradation of elements). And Toyota design on the basis of the crystal of the electrolyte, with similar effectiveness and less cost in case of their implementations.

In the end, we see that technologies that can be modified when you invest a lot, but "rush" to change everything - companies have been slow (they still need to capitalize on current production)!