Man has long been on a quest for a better battery

Man has long been on a quest for a better battery
such as canon CV-11 battery. This has resulted in some less then ideal solutions, such as the potato battery (it was half baked) and the onion battery (too smelly). Finally, researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a smaller, more efficient, and hopefully radiation free nuclear canon BP-608 battery.

To be fair, there are already a few nuclear batteries around, but the problem with them is they break down rather quickly. This is due to the obvious problem of radioactivity causing the semiconductor to break down. The current versions of the nuclear canon ZR-CV battery are used in satellites and pacemakers.

Where the innovation comes in, is the size and how it’s made. The researchers have stated that their goal is to create a battery that is the size of a penny, using a liquid instead of a solid semiconductor. The long term goal, is to take the technology even farther to the newest canon NB-2LH battery, and create a nuclear battery that is smaller then the thickness of a human hair. Sounds like a great idea to me.

University of Missouri engineers are building a nuclear canon NB-2L battery the size of a penny. Their aim is to develop a long-lasting power source for tiny sensors, actuators, and labs-on-a-chip. While nuclear batteries sound, er, problematic, they’re actually relatively common in larger form factors to power pacemakers and instruments aboard space vehicles. From MU News Bureau:

(Professor Jae Kown’s) innovation is not only in the canon DM-MV30 battery’s size, but also in its semiconductor. Kwon’s battery uses a liquid semiconductor rather than a solid semiconductor.

“The critical part of using a radioactive battery (canon BP-512 battery) is that when you harvest the energy, part of the radiation energy can damage the lattice structure of the solid semiconductor,” Kwon said. “By using a liquid semiconductor, we believe we can minimize that problem.”

In the future, they hope to increase the battery’s power, shrink its size and try with various other materials. Kwon said that the canon BP-511 battery could be thinner than the thickness of human hair.