mPhase Activates Green Tech Multi-Cell Smart NanoBattery

mPhase Technologies said that it has successfully triggered and activated its first functional multi-cell Smart NanoBattery.

The company used a technique called electrowetting to trigger and activate the cells of the battery. Company officials said that the technique provides the mPhase reserve battery one of its key attributes – programmable triggering.

Company officials said in a press release that triggering using this approach was accomplished by applying a brief pulse of electrical energy to a porous, smart surface membrane, located inside each cell in the battery. This caused the electrolyte to come in contact with the cell's electrodes and created the chemical reaction to produce voltage inside the cell of the multi-cell battery.

The mPhase multi-cell battery features a matrix of 12 individual cells populated with an electrode stack consisting of lithium and carbon monofluoride materials (Li/CFx), with each cells rated at 3.0 volts.

Company officials said that using a specially designed circuit board for testing and characterization studies, each of the cells in the battery were independently triggered and activated without affecting any of the non-activated cells in the multi-cell configuration.

Moreover, Each cell in the battery has very long shelf until it is triggered thanks to the unique design of the multi-cell battery, company officials said.

The development of the Smart NanoBattery has been undertaken with funding support from a Phase II STTR Army award.

Recently, mPhase Technologies (News - Alert) announced the completion of the technical testing of the mPower On Command Active Reserve Battery for the mPower Emergency Illuminator