The first thing that came to my mind when seeing the picture to the left was that of a magnetically-suspended piece of metal, tested for freezing durability or something like that. Actually, that should be the size of a new development made by chemistry professor Choong-Shik Yoo, in Washington State, that comes to bring the world even more-portable power.

As Gizmodo informs us, the researcher combined xenon and fluoride with a pressure equivalent to that found in the center of the Earth, and designed the ultra-battery, which is said to be capable of packing condensed energy like no other available today.

The engineer used xenon difluoride, crammed inside a diamond anvil cell, which is a small device measuring just two by three inches. The cell packs two diamond anvil to offer the outrageously high pressure in such a small and contained space. Otherwise, the xenon difluoride would stay far apart, but it is the squeezing process that forces them closer and closer.

Surpassing the point where the molecules formed a 2D semiconductor, by the point of 1 million atmospheres, the molecules actually took shape of 3D metallic network structures, that made the mechanical energy be stored as chemical energy. So far, as the professor tells us, this is “is the most condensed form of energy storage outside of nuclear energy."




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