Mya used gold nanowires and coated them with a very thin electrolyte gel layer and started to cycle it. “She discovered that just by using this gel, she could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any capacity.” Which is incredible because normally any battery dies after 5,000 or 6,000 or 7,000 cycles at most. Moreover, after numerous charge cycles, the nanowires didn’t have any unusual cracks and the battery capacity didn’t degrade.