Super charger: 30 seconds to juice up your smartphone

Tel Aviv-based startup invents super-charger that can revive dying smartphone in seconds

For a generation dependent on the phone charger, this looks like a game changer.

A Tel Aviv-based startup has produced a piece of technology that can charge a smartphone fully in 30 seconds.

The bad news is that Storedot’s mobile charger is not expected to go into production until at least 2016.

The company was set up by members of the nanotechnology department of Tel Aviv University.

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Its charger - while not entirely portable - is expected to cost about double what the average charger costs.

While it doesn’t claim to boost smartphone battery life - a fundamental weakness of some brands like Apple’s iphone - but it can bring a dying phone back to life inside a minute.

StoreDot is using a new battery chemistry that features “nanodots” which are derived from bio-organic material.

The nanodots are deployed in both the electrode, which stores the battery’s energy, and the electrolyte, which transfers energy between the battery’s anode and cathode ends.

The company said the nanodot technology permit the electrode to charge much faster.

Because the technology is based on naturally occurring organic compounds, it is cheap to produce.

To promote the charger, the company has produced a 90-second video trailer.

Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Eoin Burke-Kennedy is Economics Correspondent of The Irish Times