Battery is something everybody would understand, our lifestyle has been influenced more or less by it, but what is quantum battery, how does it work, what would be the difference between quantum batteries and lithium-ion battery, today I am going to show you guys the answer to these questions and maybe some of them can be a good candidate for you to switch to quantum battery in the future.
The principles of quantum batteries and lithium-ion batteries are completely different, Lithium-ion batteries works based on its chemical reaction and quantum batteries work based on quantum mechanics principles, which means “The Nano-Structured Solid State of matter in which electrons absorb photons and become stable. In this state, particles can hold the energy and remain in the device for an indefinite time.” (2022, Manish Kumar), a downside about quantum batteries is it must be placed in the dark, so it may hold quantum charge, and it must be placed in a close state, so it won’t give up its quantum charge to surrounding environment, and once it is satisfied, it will be no-loss batteries.
Another good reason to switch to quantum batteries in the future is it can be a superabsorption, it is unlike lithium-ion batteries, the bigger the battery is, the quicker it charges, and frankly, it can be charge just by exposing itself under the ambient light in a room, and the charging speed is “related to the square root of the number of batteries lined up together” (2022, Ellen Phiddian).
Here is What You Need to Know About Quantum Batteries. | by Manish Kumar | Predict | Medium
Quantum batteries closer with superabsorption breakthrough (cosmosmagazine.com)
Quantum batteries are something that I have heard about but don’t know the specifics of them but after reading this post and other articles on this topic, I am much more informed on what they do and how they are supposedly better than lithium-ion batteries despite how different they may be. I do believe it will take years upon years for quantum batteries to actually overtake lithium-ion batteries just because of their simplicity and world-wide recognition and use but they may eventually get to that point sometime in the future, just not as soon as many think they will.
It is interesting how different the two are that do the same function, but just one does it a bit more efficiently. I think of the two like electric cars and normal gas powered vehicles. The lithium ion batteries worked off a chemical reaction while the quantum battery works off quantum mechanical principles. A major downside to quantum batteries, as you mentioned is that they have to be placed in the dark to hold quantum charge. That being said, I think an argument could be made for both but it is definitely interesting to learn about these new and interesting technologies which may become our new normal sometime in the future.
Source: https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/quantum-batteries-breakthrough-superabsorption/