Samsung claims it can double Li-ion battery life using graphene

[HEXUS]

Firm also announced withdrawal from the hard disk drive motor business today.

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[MrRockliffe]

Not sure if good or bad. I'm thinking, great, extra battery capacity, Samsung are probably thinking WE CAN MAKE PHONES SO THIN THEY CAN'T EVEN SEE IT.

[zsde]

mmmm...... wondering if this may be Tesla's new wonder battery technology being employed and we may see another Patent war? just thinking out loud

[outwar6010]

I'm not confident that it's happening anytime soon. Graphene is the thing is the thing they want to replace silicon with too(I remember seeing projected figures like 1000ghz for graphene based tech) but its supposedly incredibly hard to mass produce.

[Xlucine]

Interesting - applying graphene to the cathode has been tried before as far back as 2013 (doi:10.1038/ncomms2705), but they didn't see improvements of anywhere near double

[mikerr]

Graphene the wonder material across many areas .... but has it actually been used for anything in production yet ?

[Jasp]

Light bulbs should be on the shelves by the end of the year, made in the UK too.

[McEwin]

Another month another mega-battery claim with no information on commercial availability. NEXT!