Battery drain, be gone. The days of shoddy smartphone staying power could be short lived, with science boffins working on ways to dramatically extend your battery's life span, Digital Spy said.

While most of you will be cursing your smartphone's battery life come your evening commute, a team at the HZB Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials - part of the science community's rock star crew at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France - have come up with a way to keep things chugging not just a little, but a whole lot longer.

Essentially, the science folks have been testing replacing the graphite element of traditional batteries - the part that stores those all-important ions - with other materials, namely silicon.

While silicon is just as affordable and readily available as graphite, it possesses the ability to store six times the power. The only trouble is, early tests resulted in issues of expanding batteries, which isn't very helpful.

The HZB Institute has claimed to have counteracted these issues, however. While this doesn't mean near week-long smartphone charges will be dropping on the iPhone 7, give it a couple of years and those moans of the one-day hump could be a long forgotten memory, Digital Spy said.