Tech company Sony announced that it has launched a development project that will create more powerful battery packs for smartphone devices. Sony claims that the battery uses a different chemistry process that will improve battery life by up to 40 percent. Sony is planning to release the technology within the next five years.
In order to achieve this massive battery power output, Sony is working on lithium-sulfur and magnesium-sulfur batteries. The company is hoping that the new set of chemistry will someday replace the currently used lithium-ion chemistry.
By using lithium-sulfur and magnesium sulfur on battery packs, Sony predicts that future smartphone batteries will gain 40 percent density gain by volume. The main target of the project are laminated smartphone batteries and hit will the commercial market sometime in 2020, according to BGR.
According to Nikkei Technology Japan, while the initial target of the project are smartphone batteries, Sony is also developing the new battery pack in order to broaden its future applications. Experts believe that the powerful battery pack will have extremely beneficial application on robots.
Some tech analysts consider Sony as the pioneer of the commercialization of the Lithium-ion rechargeable battery. Now that mobile devices like smartphones are getting powerful at a very unprecedented rate, battery packs have failed to maintain the pace with the development. One of the most common problems faced by smartphone manufacturers around the world is limited battery life.
Sony is aiming to create a 1,000Wh/L battery cell, or probably higher. The company said that the process is very difficult, but still the company remains positive that it can deliver the goods by 2020.