Samsung just might have the holy grail of batteries on their hands. The company, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has figured out a way to make batteries last 'indefinitely'.
How do they perform magical feat, you ask? Batteries usually use a liquid as the electrolyte - the solution through which electricity is conducted - but Samsung and MIT believe that replacing this with a solid could increase the life of a battery exponentially.
Usually, when a battery is charged, it gradually starts degrading and this is why you need replace the battery in most electronics after a few years. By changing the electrolyte to a solid, however, this degradation is stemmed and would allow the battery to potentially undergo "hundreds of thousands of cycles" of recharging and discharging.
Source:Neowin
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