The Battery That Breaks Its Own Rules

There's a quirk in physics that most engineers never have to worry about: the bigger a conventional battery gets, the longer it takes to charge. Obvious, really. More capacity, more time. It's one of those rules so intuitive you never bother to question it. Dr. James Quach questioned it. Quach, who leads quantum science research at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has spent years working on a class of energy storage devices that do something your phone battery would consider impossible. Add more storage units to a quantum battery…