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Samsung rumored to launch phone with graphene battery next year
Graphene Info ^ | August 19, 2019 | CNet

Posted on 08/20/2019 7:29:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Samsung may be in the race to develop a graphene-based alternative to lithium-ion batteries for its phones. Rumors are going around claiming that the Company hopes to have at least one phone with a graphene battery ready next year or by 2021.

The word is that these graphene-based batteries will be capable of a full charge in under a half-hour, but they still need to raise capacities while lowering costs. In 2017, Samsung said its researchers developed a "graphene ball" material that enables five times faster charging speeds than standard lithium-ion batteries.

Samsung may be looking into battery alternatives following past problems with its Note 7 phones, when users started reporting overheating problems. Samsung tied the issues to a battery design flaw and recalled all the Note 7 phones on the market. That didn't seem to fix the problem, though, with the replacement devices also overheating. Samsung launched a second recall and stopped manufacturing the Note 7. Following the problems, Samsung changed its testing process for key mobile components and instituted an eight-point inspection process for batteries.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Science
KEYWORDS: carbon; graphene; grapheneoxide; graphyne; samsung; science
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To: SoCal Pubbie
I have graphite in my palm since freshman year in high school. Had a pencil in my back pocket, jumped off the bleachers, and impaled my right hand!

I can beat that story. I had the pencil in my front pocket when I jumped off the bleachers in my freshman year. Impaled my scrotum and I've had a hard on for the last 40 years.
21 posted on 08/21/2019 1:46:26 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Bayard

Which comes first, graphene batteries or thorium reactors?


22 posted on 08/21/2019 3:10:14 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
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To: Old Yeller

I’m sure you beat it regularly.


23 posted on 08/21/2019 3:51:19 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie (Ca)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Cold fusion via Kevmo’s boy Andrea Rossi...


24 posted on 08/21/2019 3:52:42 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: akalinin

Thanks a ton for the tips!


25 posted on 08/21/2019 4:02:48 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: akalinin

I have had a piece of pencil lead in my left pinky since June 1978. I got it while running to the school bus on the last day of 7th grade.


26 posted on 08/21/2019 4:10:10 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: Bayard
"Have they finally found a way to mass produce that stuff yet? Its been this matador cape of click bait and hopey dreams for a long time now."

Apparently so. Products using graphene are starting to show up on Amazon.

27 posted on 08/21/2019 4:15:15 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I got bit by a squirel once.


28 posted on 08/21/2019 5:48:33 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t care how fast it charges - how long does it take to run down a full charge?

I can charge the dang thing overnight, long as the charge lasts me all day. I’m not one of those that lives on my phone.


29 posted on 08/21/2019 7:47:07 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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