An East Coast company was honored this month for its innovative work in battery technology on the nanotech level. This looks like it could lead to some very interesting technologies that require miniaturization and long shelf life. Check out the info on the award:

mPhase Technologies was honored in recognition for its innovative work on a nanotechnology based smart battery by Frost & Sullivan at their annual Growth Excellence Awards Banquet and Networking Session held in San Antonio last week.

In selecting mPhase, Frost & Sullivan's Energy & Power Systems Group Director Sara Bradford said that mPhase's "pioneering battery design promises to revolutionize the portable reserve power storage market by yielding unprecedented micro and nanoscale devices able to be packaged as an integrated power source in system-on-a-chip configurations, while retaining reserve power for on demand activation potentially for decades. This battery technology could trigger a fundamental paradigm shift in battery and power technology."

mPhase's "smart" battery design relies on nanostructures to separate electrolytes from the positive and negative electrodes, thereby preventing premature electrochemical reactions until activated and allowing this energy to be held in reserve for exceedingly long periods of time. The storage device is expected to have a longer than average shelf life and set new levels for miniaturization and flexibility.

Under an agreement with Bell Labs, the R&D arm of Lucent Technologies, the companies have created a prototype battery based on a Bell Labs discovery that liquid droplets of electrolyte will stay in a dormant state atop microscopic structures until stimulated to flow, thereby triggering a reaction producing electric current. Future batteries based on this technology have the potential to deliver far longer shelf life and better storage capacity than existing battery technology.

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