NOKIA BELL LABS AND AMBER RESEARCHERS FORMULATE NEW BATTERY DESIGN FOR THE 5G WORLD
June 20 2019 - 2:27PM
- New battery technology provides critical attributes for 5G
networks, renewable energy grids, and the consumer and Industrial
Internet of Things
- Offers 2.5 times the battery life in the same volume as the
current market leading super slim battery
- Doubles the energy a battery can carry without changing the
weight, a critical requirement for uses such as IoT networks,
electric vehicles and drones
20 June 2019, Espoo, Finland, and Dublin, Ireland:
Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs and AMBER, the SFI Centre for
Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research hosted at
Trinity College Dublin, today announced they have created a new,
innovative formula for battery composition that makes batteries
more powerful by packing 2.5 times the battery life than anything
currently on the market. As the world transitions to 5G, ushering
in a new era of consumer and industrial Internet of Things
(everything from wearable technologies, pervasive sensors, to
industrial robots), this new, game-changing battery design has the
potential to help power the connected world of the future.
The increasing power requirements of connected devices such as
smartphones, drones, electric cars and robots necessitates greater
battery performance for both new applications as well as longer
battery lifetimes. The new battery design also has far-reaching
implications for 4G and 5G networks where conventional power may
not be available for network equipment, or where emergency backup
battery systems are essential to keep systems running.
"By packing more energy into a smaller space, this new battery
technology will have a profound impact on 5G and the entire
networked world," said Paul King, one of the lead investigators on
the project and Member of the Technical Staff, Nokia Bell
Labs. "The combination of Nokia Bell Labs industry and device
knowledge and AMBER's materials science expertise allowed us to
tackle an extremely difficult problem involving multiple
disciplines. Our results were achieved through the deeply
collaborative mode in which we work, underscoring the value of
engaging with AMBER as part of our global research strategy."
"The significant advancement in battery technology outlined in
this research is a testament to the strong collaboration between
AMBER and Nokia Bell Labs. Bringing scientists together from
industry and academia with a common research goal has resulted in a
substantial scientific breakthrough," said Dr. Lorraine Byrne,
AMBER Executive Director. "AMBER's partnership with Nokia Bell Labs
through their Distinguished Academic Partners Program has been a
hugely positive experience and clearly illustrates the benefits of
industry-academic engagements. I look forward to AMBER's
collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs continuing to break new
boundaries in science creating impact for society."
An additional benefit to this new technology is its potential to
improve the performance of large-scale energy grids powered by
renewable energy. The demand for reliable power relies on
storage technologies, such as the battery technology described
here, to manage the high fluctuation in energy generation in
today's wind and solar renewable technologies. A new study
from Wood Mackenzie shows that the energy storage in 100 percent
renewable systems will likely be 25 times higher as compared to
today's systems. This will pose issues as the need for efficient,
fast charging and compact energy storage becomes even more
imperative.
A patent has been filed to protect this new technology design
and help bring it to the marketplace. A study discussing the
battery research performed by Nokia Bell Labs and AMBER has been
published in Nature Energy* a leading international science
journal.
Nokia Bell Labs has been collaborating with AMBER as part of the
Nokia Bell Labs Distinguished Academic Partners Program. The
program brings together Nokia Bell Labs researchers with the best
and brightest minds at the world's top universities to solve future
human needs, transform human existence, and deliver disruptive
innovations.
About Nokia Bell LabsNokia Bell Labs is the
world-renowned industrial research arm of Nokia. Over its more than
90-year history, Bell Labs has invented many of the foundational
technologies that underpin information and communications networks
and all digital devices and systems. This research has resulted in
9 Nobel Prizes, three Turing Awards, three Japan Prizes, a plethora
of National Medals of Science and Engineering, as well as an Oscar,
two Grammy awards and an Emmy award for technical innovation. For
more information, visit www.bell-labs.com.
About AMBERAMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering
Research) is a world-leading SFI Research Centre funded by Science
Foundation Ireland, hosted by Trinity College Dublin which provides
a partnership between leading researchers in materials science and
industry to develop new materials and devices for a range of
sectors, particularly the ICT, medical devices and industrial
technology sectors. Working in collaboration with CRANN (Trinity's
Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices),
the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering and with University College
Cork and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
ENDS
For further information, please contact:For
Nokia:Phone: +358 (0) 10 448
4900E-mail: press.services@nokia.com or
Eric.Mangan@Nokia.com
For AMBER:Aoife Van Wolvelaere,
EdelmanAoife.VanWolvelaere@edelman.com
Caption for photo: Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs and
AMBER have created a new, innovative formula for battery
composition that packs 2.5 times the battery life than anything
currently on the market. As the world transitions to 5G, ushering
in a new era of consumer and industrial IoT, the new battery design
will help power the connected world of the future.
- Photo of researchers at Nokia Bell Labs and AMBER.jpg
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