It seems that we're constantly hearing about promising new battery technologies and eventually one of them will stick.
Mike Zimmerman, a professor at Tufts University and founder of Ionic Materials, hopes that his remarkably resilient ionic battery technology will be the one that does. At a glance, his ionic battery technology appears to a legitimate shot at finally pushing the category forward in a significant way.
The reason scientists and researchers pay so much attention to battery design is because today's lithium-ion units have several downsides. As we saw recently with Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 recall, they can overheat and catch fire. Even when they work correctly, lithium-ion batteries degrade over a relatively short time as they go through recharge cycles, and they don't last all that long to begin with.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Wednesday February 01 2017, @01:59PM
Betteridge says no. TFA is unfortunately mum on any reason to believe otherwise.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @02:56PM
Given that it is based upon his research, it is coming from "the founder of Ionic Materials", and we're hearing about it from "hothardware.com" and not from a science or engineering site that is talking about any papers on the subject, I would tend to agree with you. It sounds like buzz generation more than anything else.