qSafe Power Cell
  • Home
  • Present Technology
    • How Batteries Work
    • Today's Problems
    • History
  • Innovations
    • Iron Pyrite Quantum Dots
    • Carbon-Zinc Nanorods
    • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • qSafe
    • Our Technology
    • Video and Prototypes
    • Applications
    • News
    • References
  • Home
  • Present Technology
    • How Batteries Work
    • Today's Problems
    • History
  • Innovations
    • Iron Pyrite Quantum Dots
    • Carbon-Zinc Nanorods
    • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • qSafe
    • Our Technology
    • Video and Prototypes
    • Applications
    • News
    • References

History of Battery Technology


Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

​
ca. 250 B.C.: The “Parthian Battery” is created (rediscovered near Baghdad in 1936). Instead of energy storage, it is likely used to electroplate metals.

​
​

​

1800:
Count Alessandro Volta invents the “voltaic pile,” consisting of copper zinc discs separated by cardboard discs soaked in acid.







1836: The Daniell cell is invented, supplying a steady, longer-lasting current.







1859: Gaston Planté creates the first rechargeable lead-acid battery.



​

​
​1899: Waldemar Jungner, a Swedish scientist, patents the nickel-cadmium rechargeable battery with twice the energy density of the lead-acid battery.





​1949: The alkaline-manganese battery is invented by Lewis Urry at Eveready Battery Co.
​




​
1965: The first surface acoustic wave-generating devices (SAWs) are created.





​1980: At Oxford University, Professor John Goodenough creates the first Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, using both lithium cobalt oxide and lithium manganese dioxide cathodes.





1981: Quantum dots are discovered in a glass matrix at the State Optical Institute in Russia.






1991: Sony commercializes the lithium cobalt oxide version of the Li-ion battery.


​

​
​2000–present: Safety recalls include millions of laptops and smartphones due to Li-ion battery explosions. The FAA grounds all Boeing Dreamliners due to Li-ion battery malfunctions.

​
​

​
2015: Researchers at Hunan University grow zinc oxide nanorods on carbon cloth, with promising applications for anodes in Li-ion batteries.


​
​


​2015: At Vanderbilt University, researchers test an anode made of iron pyrite quantum dots.





​
2015: Tesla unveils its Powerwall, which uses lithium-ion batteries to store energy for homes and businesses.






​2017: An ExploraVision team creates qSafe, the battery of the future.



Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.