The days of frequent phone recharges may soon be over, if an award-winning experiment by Indian-American teenager, translates successfully to commercial production.
Saratoga, California-based Eesha Khare, then 18, won the $50,000 Young Scientist prize at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, for developing a Super Capacitor that recharges phone batteries in less than a minute and allows 10 times as many recharge cycles. Her device made of carbon nano-fibres and metal oxides, has to be fitted inside cell phone batteries.
Her high school teacher says Eesha showed the academic rigour of a PhD student in her work on the battery project. Eesha is now using her prize money to finance her studies at Harvard and to improve her invention before it can be offered for mass production.
