Eesha Khare- The 2013 Innovatory Girl
Every year Intel runs the International Science and Engineering Fair, and as part of that event the chip giant awards high school students prize money for the best science projects. The winner this year was 19-year-old Ionut Budisteanu for his low cost, self-driving car model. But it’s 18-year-old runner up Eesha Khare that caught our attention. Intel awarded her the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award and a $50,000 scholarship for a tiny device that fits inside a phone battery. Khare’s invention could potentially have a major impact on smartphones because it holds the promise of 20-30 second battery charges. So no more hooking your phone up to an outlet for a few hours, you just wait no more than 30 seconds for a full battery. What Khare has designed and created is a supercapacitor with a “special nanostructure” allowing it to store significantly more energy while charging incredibly quickly. It also remains viable for 10,000 charges compared to the more typical 1,000 char...

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