{"id":233617,"date":"2026-03-19T03:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/a-world-first-quantum-battery-charges-faster-when-it-gets-bigger-but-its-tiny-and-only-lasts-nanoseconds"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:21:30","slug":"a-world-first-quantum-battery-charges-faster-when-it-gets-bigger-but-its-tiny-and-only-lasts-nanoseconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/a-world-first-quantum-battery-charges-faster-when-it-gets-bigger-but-its-tiny-and-only-lasts-nanoseconds","title":{"rendered":"A world\u2011first quantum battery charges faster when it gets bigger\u2014but it\u2019s tiny and only lasts nanoseconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-world-first-quantum-battery-charges-faster-when-it-gets-bigger-but-its-tiny-and-only-lasts-nanoseconds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realize your phone is flat. Imagine you could charge it almost instantly by exploiting the strange rules of quantum physics. That\u2019s the promise of quantum batteries.<\/p>\n<p>My colleagues and I at CSIRO have developed <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41377-026-02240-6\" target=\"_blank\">the world\u2019s first quantum battery prototypes <\/a>\u2014and the direction the technology has taken is surprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re late for an important appointment. Just as you are leaving your house, you realize your phone is flat. Imagine you could charge it almost instantly by exploiting the strange rules of quantum physics. That\u2019s the promise of quantum batteries. My colleagues and I at CSIRO have developed the world\u2019s first quantum battery prototypes \u2014and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233617","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}