Sound lads!
Everyone knows the burden of carrying a phone charger around in public...
Trying to find an outlet, sitting there for 15 minutes just to get enough juice to last you the next hour or so... repeating the process several more times throughout the day.
It's a nuisance.
Well that could be a thing of the past thanks to a group of Irish scientists.
They say they've developed a new material that could increase the battery life of an average smartphone by more than 300%.
The ink-based nanomaterial called Mxenes could see the average mobile phone battery life increase from 10 hours of talk-time to up to 40 hours.
It also has the potential to make a significant environmental impact by increasing the real-time range of electric cars.
The material has been developed by researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering at Trinity College Dublin.
Lead researcher from the project, Prof Valeria Nicolosi, said: “We are extremely excited by the potential of this new class of 2D nanomaterials.”
So are we Valeria!
