IT HAPPENED! Nuclear Diamond Battery Finally Going to Launch

IT HAPPENED! Nuclear Diamond Battery Finally Going to Launch

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The success of a company in the electric vehicle industry today completely depends on the introduction of a new , power efficient battery that does not cost much to produce. The purchase price of a electric car will drastically reduce if a more cost efficient battery is manufactured. Tesla , the leading EV maker is in a fierce competition to develop a new battery that can change the EV game forever. Lets take a look at a new battery material that can prove to be a game changer in the EV market.

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A new battery technology that can change the way we charge our electric devices is on the way. This new battery simply called the nuclear diamond battery has a capacity to run for 28000 years. You heard that right. This game changer power source can be the future of battery technology. But what exactly is a nuclear power battery?
Today, most of our devices are powered by lithium ion batteries. While these batteries are great, they are nothing compared to the nuclear diamond batteries that can spoon replace our current battery technology. Lithium ion batteries have no doubt played a massive role in the proliferation of electronic devices, however they have their drawbacks which are serious enough to make scientists continue searching for better batteries. The limitations of lithium ion batteries are no more apparent than in electric cars. Thanks to their low energy density lithium ion batteries have to be heavy to provide decent driving ranges. However they fall behind their gas powered counterparts in the distance they can cover in a full tank. This makes some people hesitant about embracing electric cars. These batteries also take a long time to charge. Above all however, lithium ion batteries are expensive and are the single most component that brings up the cost of manufacturing an electric car. Today electric cars are out of reach for many purely because the lithium ion battery costs so much. Then there's the cost of degradation of these batteries. They lose capacity over time. This is experienced best with smartphones whose batteries get out of charge pretty quickly after a few years use.

Scientists have been experimenting with a wide range of battery materials and compositions to arrive at the perfect battery. For instance the solid state battery is an advanced form of the lithium ion battery and has certain benefits like higher safety and longer energy density. Over the years we've heard of different kinds of batteries such as graphene and more. However none of these batteries have had the longevity as a nuclear diamond battery.

So, how did the nuclear diamond battery come to be and how do they work?

Back in 2016, a research team came together at the University of Bristol and began working on what they called a beta Voltaic device. This battery was powered by the beta decay from nuclear waste. These batteries came to be known as radioactive diamond batteries. Beta decay happens when an atom's nucleus has an excess of particles and releases some of them to obtain a more stable ratio of protons to neutrons. This produces a kind of ionizing radiation called beta radiation.

A typical beta Voltaic cell consists of thin layers of radioactive materials placed between semiconductors. As the nuclear materials decay it emits beta particles that knock electrons loose in the semiconductor creating an electric current. However the power density of the radioactive source is lower the further it is from the semiconductor. This means the nuclear battery is less efficient than other kinds of batteries. However there is a fix for this. Polycrystalline diamond or PCD.

Radioactive batteries are made through a process called chemical vapor deposition, a process that is also widely used for making artificial diamonds. However researchers have modified the process to grow radioactive diamonds by using radioactive methane containing the radioactive isotope carbon 14 which can be harvested from a radiated reactor graphite block. These diamonds can act as a radioactive source and a semiconductor when exposed to beta radiation. You'll get a long-duration battery that doesn't need to be recharged. The nuclear waste in its interior fuels it over and over again allowing it to charge itself for ages with very little to no measurable degradation over hundreds of years

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