Eesha Khare, an 18-year-old Indian-American girl from Saratoga, California, was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the Intel Foundation after developing the super-capacitor device that fits inside mobile phone batteries and allows them to charge within 20-30 seconds. That's not enough, when this so-called super-capacitor which is a gadget that can pack a lot of energy into a tiny space while it charges quickly as well as holds its charge for a long time.

The Young Scientist Khare has been awarded USD 50,000 for developing the tiny device while she was also known to have attracted the attention of tech giant Google for her potentially revolutionary invention. Khare has revealed that her device can last for 10,000 charge-recharge cycles, compared with 1,000 cycles for conventional rechargeable batteries who also furthered when asked about what inspired her to work on the energy-storage technology, she replied that her cellphone battery always dies. While Super-capacitors allowed her to focus on her interest in nanochemistry genuinely working at the nanoscale to make significant advances in many different fields.

Even though, the gadget has so far only been tested on an LED light, on the contrary the good news prevails about it's good chance of working successfully in other devices, such as mobile phones.

Another prominent fact remain that Khare observed that it fits inside cellphones along with the other portable electronic devices spreading rapidly in today's world, while she also added about  flexibility, so it can be used in rollup displays and clothing and fabric and it in fact has a lot of different applications along with advantages making it much more dominant over batteries.

That's fantabulous invention!

Congratulations to Eesha Khare!

Content source: Indian Express
Image source: Eesha Khare

(AW:Samrat Biswas)