Ask any frequent electronics user what one of the most underdeveloped and biggest interference with the enjoyment of their device is and we guarantee that most will say its battery.

We’re at a tipping point in electronics history where incredibly powerful laptops, music devices and smartphones are dominating the world with unbelievable and unprecedented capabilities, but all that is often secondary when you pass the 8-12 month point of your device’s lifespan. At that point frequent visits to the charger become an engrained part of your daily routine, but a research team at Stanford are hoping to change that.

Battery Is Copper-Based And Helps Ions Travel Faster

They’re working on a new material that could potentially have the lifespan of 100X the current most efficient consumer Lithium-Ion battery. The researchers state that they’re in the process of developing a battery electrode so efficient that it could survive an incomprehensible 40,000 or over 10-15 years.

The material is constructed primarily from copper hexacyanoferrate and the structure of how it is constructed essentially allows the battery’s charged ions to travel in and out of electrodes far more easily. It is also far more robust meaning that it degrades at a much slower pace that the traditional Lithium-Ion battery. It sounds like really complicated stuff, we know, but all you need to know is that it can charge your laptop/tablet/smartphone far more quickly and will not destroy your battery nearly as fast either.

Critical Part of The Battery Still Needs To Be Developed

The only obstacle facing the researchers is that the high-voltage cathode needs a low-voltage anode. What’s the problem with that you say? Well, it doesn’t quite exist and the prototypes they’ve been working on aren’t suitable for use with commercial tech-products.

We still think it’s yet another awesome project being worked on the people over at Stanford. Whether or not tech-companies will actually want their devices to last that long is a completely different story, however.