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By Anand Parthasarathy
BANGALORE, MARCH 31. This is no April Fool's joke. A Japanese electronics giant has just announced a research breakthrough to produce a Lithium-ion battery — the type used by most mobile phones and laptop computers - that can be re-charged 60 times faster than typical types used today. In other words, it can attain 80 per cent of full charge in one minute, rather than hours. That's not all. The ``Super Charge'' battery has a much longer life — it loses only 1 per cent of its capacity even after 1000 recharge cycles. The battery, which is likely to become commercially available in 2006, uses emerging nano-technology — the science of the very small — to prevent the liquid medium of the battery, known as the electrolyte, from reducing during the charging period. Tiny nano particles produced by the Toshiba process, absorb and store vast numbers of lithium ions — leading to accelerated charging times.
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