However, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) is said to have developed a new battery material called «
Graphene Ball.»
Compared to the standard lithium - ion batteries, the new
graphene ball material will increase the capacity by 45 % and it can also charge 5 times faster.
Samsung's research team has published a long, very technical paper about how
the graphene ball works, and how it's produced.
If
a graphene ball can speed things up in the manner suggested by the research team, that will all change.
If your phone charges up in 90 minutes now, that number will tumble to just 18 minutes if the cell inside has been given
a graphene ball boost.
The company has filed patents in the United States and South Korea for
graphene ball technology, but there is no indication when or if it will reach a consumer product.
This new
graphene ball - driven technology could be Samsung's effort to muscle its way to the head of the long - last smartphone crowd.
Recently developed by a team of researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), this «
graphene ball» was utilized for both the anode protective layer and cathode materials in lithium - ion batteries and this ensured a 45 % increase in capacity and 5X faster charging speeds than standard lithium - ion batteries.
«Using crumpled
graphene balls to make better batteries: Approach avoids lithium dendrite growth.»
«Closely packed, the crumpled
graphene balls operate like a highly uniform, continuous solid,» said Jiayan Luo, the paper's co-corresponding author and professor of chemical engineering at Tianjin University in China.
With
the graphene balls based batteries, the device can be completely charged in just 12 minutes and will also maintain a highly stable 60 - degree Celsius temperature.
The press release also mentioned that the electric vehicles can be benefitted from
the graphene balls powered batteries.
Not exact matches
The UNIST team previously reported that dry
ball - milling can efficiently produce chemically modified
graphene particles in large quantities *.
Literally taking inspiration from a trashcan of scrunched up paper, the engineers came up with a way of crumpling
graphene sheets into
balls by first atomizing them into tiny water droplets.