18-year-old, Eesha Khare creates supercapacitor to replace conventional batteries and enables mobile phones and other batteries to be charged within seconds rather than hours.
”It is also flexible, so it can be used in rollup displays and clothing and fabric. It has a lot of different applications and advantages over batteries in that sense,” Khare added. Khare’s was inspired because she states “My cellphone battery always dies” and her invention won her $50,000 in prize money at the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award Science and Engineering Fair.
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