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Muslim Scientist Developed A Smart Chip That Will Change The World
2-23-2016
The French Moroccan scientist and the director of battery programs at NTU’s Energy Research Institute, Professor Rachid Yazami, developed a chip which is able to charge a smartphone within 10 minutes. This chip can charge anything expectedly, even the electric cars. The chip is too small that it can be fixed into all types of batteries.
The charging process in lithium-ion batteries takes a long time when electrical energy slowly and gradually fed into it in little quantity to avoid overheating. But the battery would charge at full speed if the sensor was fixed in it as an algorithm in the chip can measure the battery’s voltage and temperature in order to know the charge left in the battery. And then the time to charge the battery would lessen when that sensor pass the information to the other sensor fixed in the AC charger.
For his great invention of lithium-ion batteries in 1980’s, Rachid Yazami received the 2014 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering along with two other founders. He was also awarded a Royal Medal by King Mohammad VI of Morocco in 2014.
Yazami, made a great contribution by making the lithium-ion batteries recharge safely and he is still working to make them safer because there is a little possibility that one can explode. Yes, it is dangerous if you are driving an electric car rather than charging your smartphone.
In an interview he said; “My vision for the future is that every battery will have this chip, which will in turn reduce the risk of battery fires in electronic devices and electric vehicles while extending their life span.”
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