One of the main technical challenges now facing the industry is lagging behind technology for energy storage on requests from users. Regularly loaded with new functionality, better displays and more powerful processors smartphones tend to become thinner, but to work longer without recharging. On a new type of battery works the Japanese company Sony. New sources of power must be more capacious in comparison with lithium-ion counterparts.
Key substance in new Sony batteries — sulfur electrodes. Lithium-sulfur batteries are known in the market for a very short life — only a few tens of cycles of charge / discharge. On this problem, apparently, at the moment and I specialists. According to some reports, Sony has already solved this problem or close to it.
It is worth noting that Sony in 1991 and introduced the lithium-ion batteries, and now the company is trying to regain its former influence on the market of batteries. A new battery will increase the capacity by 40% and also reduce the necessary recharge time.
There is also a suggestion that Sony is developing magnesium-sulfur batteries, which will be more capacious, cheap to manufacture and are not subject to degradation that can destroy the battery.
It is planned that a new type of battery will be widely used in the segment of portable electronics. The only negative to waiting innovative power sources Sony will have by 2020. By this time, the company intends to develop mass production of batteries of a new type.
