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Oh thank you very much for that. Wow, that "Bioorganic nanodots for non-volatile Memory Devices"[1] is a pretty quick read. I'd bet money they have used their material to build what is effectively a high internal resistance capacitor, storing charge rather than a chemical process. That makes much more sense as charge storage is limited only by dielectric constant and the internal resistance.

To make their video compelling they need to then start a program on the phone, and show it and a clock before the 'low battery' alert goes off. That will give a sense of how many watt-seconds they can hold in that volume.

[1] PDF: http://scitation.aip.org/deliver/fulltext/aip/journal/aplmat...




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