Lithium batteries, which are usedfor everything from electronics tovehicles, take time to recharge, usually in the realm of hours. But researchers at University of Southern California have developed a new lithium-ion battery that can recharge within 10 minutes and hold three times the amount of energy as other batteries. The research comes from Chongwu Zhou, professor at USC’sViterbi School of Engineering. Last year, Zhou’s team experimented with porous siliconnano-wires that helped improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries.