The Nano-Diamond Battery That Lasts For 28,000 Years

The Nano-Diamond Battery That Lasts For 28,000 Years

By MINING.com - Sep 05, 2020, 4:00 PM CDT
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U.S. startup NDB, a company that says it has created the first and only universal, self-charging nano-diamond battery that provides thousands of years of charge, announced that two of its proofs of concept achieved a breakthrough 40% charge. This is a significant improvement over commercial diamonds, which have only a 15% charge collection efficiency.

The two proofs of concept were led by University of Cambridge physicist Sir Michael Pepper, and in both cases the 40% charge achieved was attributed to the batteries’ nanodiamond surface treatment that actively extracts the electric charge from the diamond, allowing the battery to make use of significantly more power than any other battery before it.

“Our team is bringing together leaders in the nanotechnology, nuclear science and diamond fields with military, academic and research backgrounds, and combining our unique mix of expertise has made it possible for us to crack the code in developing this groundbreaking, life-changing solution,” Nima Golsharifi, CEO and co-founder of NDB, said in a media statement.

“We are extremely concerned about the welfare of the planet and are focused on lowering climate change to protect our planet for future generations. With the NDB battery, we have achieved a massive, groundbreaking, proprietary technological breakthrough of a battery that is emission-free, lasts thousands of years, and only requires access to natural air in order to power devices.”

How it works

The battery is known as Diamond Nuclear Voltaic (DNV), where a combination of a semiconductor, metal, and ceramic has two contact surfaces to facilitate charge collection. Several single units are attached together to create a stack arrangement, which is fabricated to create a positive and negative contact surface similar to a common battery system. Every layer of the DNV stack consists of a high-energy output source.

Within the DNV, radioisotopes are placed in a way that facilitates inelastic scattering originated due to the presence of a single crystalline diamond in the unit. At the same time, stacks along with the source are coated with a layer of polycrystalline diamond, which is known for being the most thermally conductive and hardest material and also has the ability to contain the radiation within the device.

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https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Nano-Diamond-Battery-That-Lasts-For-28000-Years.html

https://ndb.technology/technology/

https://www.prweb.com/releases/ndb_inc_announces_major_technological_laboratory_breakthrough_for_the_first_universal_self_charging_nano_diamond_battery_first_beta_customers/prweb17347911.htm

NDB can power devices and machines of any size, from aircraft and rockets to electric vehicles, hearing aids, smartphones, sensors and more.

NDB spokesman:
http://www.twitter.com/MohammadSh73

The company claims that its technology can be scaled up, and it could be used to make battery packs suitable for an electric car that lasts up to 90 years.

Those are certainly some hefty claims. Not only would it revolutionize electricity storage and generation, it would provide a use for the world’s nuclear waste. NDB explains the tech in more detail in the video below, but bear in mind, the last minute and a half suggests buying the company’s shares, so take that for what you will.

https://thenextweb.com/shift/2020/08/25/nuclear-waste-batteries-last-28000-years-without-charging/amp/

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The Diamond Nuclear Voltaic (DNV) battery, thanks for sharing Chromium6.

I never heard of using diamond to store power. Many batteries, even ancient ones, were made of stacks (or other configurations) of anodes and cathodes. Adding a nano-diamond surface over metal or ceramic surfaces “that actively extracts the electric charge” sounds like a dramatic improvement. I wonder how big and how much amp seconds of power it produces. A 28 thousand year battery life sounds incredible.

I was tempted but declined to accept the site cookie agreement and didn’t see any details beyond the article you’ve quoted. I might make a charge field comment or two, but I noticed that article links to another related development that needs its own thread (Anti-Solar Panels https://milesmathis.forumotion.com/t623-anti-solar-panels ).
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