Battery innovation has hit an inflection point. Now, after a decade of incremental gains, six fundamentally different technologies are moving from labs into production, each unlocking a different constraint that has defined consumer electronics design since the smartphone era began. The shift is happening faster than expected, and it's not just about bigger batteries in the same phones. These innovations are changing what devices can be . Near term Unlocks: 1. Silicon Anodes Graphite has been the bottleneck for a decade. It stores one lithium atom per carbon, and we've optimised this ratio as much as possible. Silicon stores ten times more, but it swells to three times its original size when charged - destroying the battery from the inside. The solution arrived in nano-shells: wrapping silicon particles so they can expand without fracturing, and it’s already in devices. Honor Magic V5 and Realme GT7 Pro are shipping with silicon anodes today, delivering 15–25% more ...
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