{"id":143509,"date":"2022-08-03T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/prototype-battery-only-needs-seconds-of-sunlight-to-keep-smart-wearables-charged"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:28:11","slug":"prototype-battery-only-needs-seconds-of-sunlight-to-keep-smart-wearables-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/prototype-battery-only-needs-seconds-of-sunlight-to-keep-smart-wearables-charged","title":{"rendered":"Prototype battery only needs seconds of sunlight to keep smart wearables charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prototype-battery-only-needs-seconds-of-sunlight-to-keep-smart-wearables-charged3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty seconds of sunlight could boost the battery life of future smartwatches and other wearables by tens of minutes, thanks to a renewable and rechargeable battery prototype developed by the University of Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey\u2019s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) has demonstrated how its new photo-rechargeable system, which merges zinc-ion batteries with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/perovskite+solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">perovskite solar cells<\/a>, could allow wearables to spring back to life without the need to plug in.<\/p>\n<p>Jinxin Bi, a Ph.D. candidate at ATI and the first author of the paper, says that \u201cthis technology provides a promising strategy for efficient use of clean energy and enables wearable electronics to be operated continuously without plug-in charging. Our prototype could represent a step forward to how we interact with wearables and other internet-of-things devices, such as remote real-time health monitors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty seconds of sunlight could boost the battery life of future smartwatches and other wearables by tens of minutes, thanks to a renewable and rechargeable battery prototype developed by the University of Surrey. Surrey\u2019s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) has demonstrated how its new photo-rechargeable system, which merges zinc-ion batteries with perovskite solar cells, could allow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,418,1633,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-internet","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}