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Aluminium-ion batteries How would you like a battery that charges in only one minute? Stanford University researchers may have made a breakthrough One of the burdens of modern times is running out of power on your smartphone, tablet or laptop, and then being tethered to a charging socket while you top up the battery. This could be set to change thanks to researchers at Stanford University, who have created what they say is the first high-performance aluminium-ion battery – which can recharge in only one minute. Aluminium has long been considered a possible alternative to alkaline or lithium-ion batteries, the latter of which are found in devices such as smartphones and laptops. However, previous attempts to use the material resulted in units that died after 100 recharge cycles. Stanford researchers have now stumbled upon a…

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