Amazing Technology “Self-Destructing Battery in 30 Minutes”

Power Provider:

An amazing technology step, a new self-destructing battery after giving power to simple electronic device for up to 15 minutes, and dissolve in water. It could pave the way for so-called transient power sources for scientific instruments or tools of espionage, according to a new study.

Water Dissolving Battery:

Engineers invented a new variety of battery that is capable of powering a simple electronic device. For Example a four-function calculator, and then dissolving in water in half an hour. The researchers said that this new transient battery represents a marked improvement in voltage and disintegration time over its predecessors.

Composition of Invention:

The lithium-ion battery, the first transient battery of its kind, is "very similar to a conventional battery," study co-author Reza Montazami, who heads the Advanced Materials Lab at Iowa State University.

Battery Casing:

The polymer casing of battery, made from a molecule that can form long repeating chains, swells and physically breaks itself and the other components into small pieces when exposed to water. Devices powered by this type of battery could serve their function or transmit data. After this battery can be washed away in the rain.

Unique Discovery:

"Their mechanism depends only on hydration," A polymer scientist Christopher Bettinger,  at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who was not involved with the new study, told "That's a unique discovery."

Self-Destructing Time:

This novel developed battery takes about 30 minutes to dissolve, Montazami said, whereas other transient batteries that rely on different chemical processes can take hours or days to break down.

Battery Voltage:

The battery give about 2.7 volts, which is similar to the electric potential produced by a pair of conventional AA batteries. This means the new invention can power devices that lower-voltage transient batteries cannot. However, the use of lithium makes the new battery unsuitable for biomedical applications, such as to power implants. Still, the invention could have other medical uses, in addition to being used for surveillance, military or environmental purposes.

Applications:

Because the current battery can power a device for only 15 minutes, its applications right now are limited, Bettinger said, but "it will be interesting to see the limits on capacity, theoretical or practical."