The speed at which batteries can be charged is now a huge field of innovation, as electric cars become more and more popular.
Quick Charge for phones has been around for a good long while now, but new advances by Samsung could make Quick Charge look, well… like old charge, as it promises to charge a phone from dead to full inside 12 minutes.
Dumping power inside a battery cell is the new gold-rush in the technology arena. Doing it as fast as possible is the goal. And Samsung reckons it has something very compelling in the works that could solve a lot of battery-related issues in the near-future.
Miracle Material “Graphene”
Samsung will do this using Graphene, according to reports, whereby an ultra-thin layer – just one atom thick – is applied to batteries. This infinitesimal layer is also 200 times stronger than steel.
Samsung has now made balls of this stuff, which can be added to a battery, and, once they are, it boosts the capacity of traditional Lithium-ion batteries by 45% and dramatically reduces charging times.
What Is Graphene?
Simple: it is the building blocks of the future. The technology will have an impact on pretty much everything from buildings to smart cars inside the next decade.
Here’s a brief description of the new materials via the Mail: “Graphene is a single atomic layer of carbon atoms bound in a hexagonal network. It not only promises to revolutionise semiconductor, sensor, and display technology but could also lead to breakthroughs in fundamental quantum physics research.
It added: "It is often depicted as an atomic-scale chicken wire made of carbon atoms and their bonds. Scientists believe it could one day be used to make transparent conducting materials, biomedical sensors and even extremely light, yet strong, aircraft."
Its inclusion inside phones, however, is just the tip of the iceberg. Expect to be hearing A LOT more about this technology in the coming months and years, as it proliferates inside the automotive and aerospace industries.
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