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The battery is a betavoltaic cell using carbon-14 (14 C) in the form of diamond-like carbon (DLC) as the beta radiation source, and additional normal-carbon DLC to make the necessary semiconductor junction and encapsulate the carbon-14.
A battery converts chemical energy to electrical energy and is composed of three general parts: Anode (positive electrode); Cathode (negative electrode); Electrolyte; The anode and cathode have two different chemical potentials, which depend on the reactions that occur at either terminus.
In vitro studies exploring the dispersion of diamond nanoparticles in cells have revealed that most diamond nanoparticles exhibit fluorescence and are uniformly distributed. [21] Fluorescent nanodiamond particles can be mass produced through irradiating diamond nanocrystallites with helium ions. [ 22 ]
Nuclear batteries began in 1913, when Henry Moseley first demonstrated a current generated by charged-particle radiation. In the 1950s and 1960s, this field of research got much attention for applications requiring long-life power sources for spacecraft. In 1954, RCA researched a small atomic battery for small radio receivers and hearing aids. [4]
Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. is an American battery manufacturer that produces lithium–silicon batteries using nanoengineered silicon particles. [1] [2] The company creates battery materials to replace traditional graphite anodes with a silicon-dominant composite material to increase energy density. [3] [4] The company is based in California. [5]
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A prototype betavoltaic battery announced in early 2024 by the Betavolt company of China contains a thin wafer providing a source of beta particle electrons (either Carbon-14 or nickel-63) sandwiched between two thin crystallographic diamond semiconductor layers.
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