Are you tired of degrading battery life on your Galaxy smartphone with each passing year? We are too. Typical smartphone batteries lose up to 20% of their original capacity within one year of usage. Samsung’s newer-generation batteries introduced with the Galaxy S8 lose just 5% of the original capacity after one year but it is still not good enough when you are considering using a phone for 2-3 years. But what if we tell you that new technology can practically solve the battery degradation problem for good?
A team of scientists working at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered a new material that helps batteries in retaining 95% of their original capacity for five years (or even longer). The negative terminals inside current batteries use a binder material called Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF), and its performance isn’t great. After just 500 recharges, typical batteries using PVDF lose up to 35% of the original capacity. This results in degraded battery life on smartphones after one or two years.
