mPhase Technologies Incorporated has made the most significant breakthrough in battery technology in more than 100 years. The company’s new AlwaysReady Smart NanoBattery is helping batteries keep pace with the highly evolved electronics they are used to power. The technology inherent in this new NanoBattery provides the manufacturer the ability to produce it on such a miniaturized level it can be placed on a microchip.
The new NanoBattery uses a chemical reaction similar to traditional batteries, but it utilizes a unique mechanism to combine the chemicals and control the characteristics of the reaction. mPhase refers to the controlled reaction as “Power on Command”, because it allows the user to locally or remotely activate and deactivate the battery, freely switching between an active and inactive state. Activation is initiated on the user’s command, causing the chemicals to mix, electrochemical reactions to occur, and power to be supplied to an electronic device. This unique ability makes the NanoBattery a perfect fit for military and other specialty applications, as well as implantable medical devices.
An interesting feature of mPhase’s NanoBattery is the ability to manage power. The battery cells are arranged in a configuration that allows each cell to be independently addressed and activated at different times, as needed. This feature can drastically extend the useful life of the battery. An AlwaysReady Smart NanoBattery that is designed to provide power continuously for ten years can be clustered into an array of identical cells that are designed to turn on sequentially, as one group dissipates and eventually dies. This would allow the use of multiple batteries being combined and sequenced to last continually for several decades!
Other advantages of the NanoBattery include a much longer shelf life. Currently the NanoBatteries have a shelf life of 15 – 20 years, but the technology itself could potentially enable a virtually unlimited shelf life. NanoBatteries are also much quicker than traditional batteries to ramp up to full power, and relatively inexpensive to mass produce. They can offer high power and energy density using a variety of chemistries. NanoBatteries are also easy to miniaturize without a significant loss of output, which is why they are ideal for high-tech advanced systems and military applications.
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