{"id":33466,"date":"2018-10-30T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33466"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T07:00:55","slug":"new-graphene-battery-charges-5-times-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-graphene-battery-charges-5-times-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"New graphene battery charges 5 times faster\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/new-graphene-based-battery-charges-five-times-faster\/article21266242.ece\"><strong>New graphene battery charges 5 times faster<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a new Graphene-based battery material with charging speed five times faster than today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who has done it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in\u00a0South Korea<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides promise for the next generation mobile batteries and electric vehicles<\/li>\n<li>The latest research will enable mass synthesis of Graphene at an affordable price<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Problem with Li-ion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Standard lithium batteries require charging time of at least an hour to fully charge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphene<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the materials looked at, Graphene, a material with high strength and conductivity, has widely become the primary source of interest<\/p>\n<p><strong>Study done<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the study published in the journal\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em>, researchers used Graphene and mass synthesized it into a 3D form using silica (SiO2)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This \u201cGraphene ball\u201d was utilized for both the anode protective layer and cathode materials. This ensured an increase of charging capacity, decrease of charging time as well as stable temperatures<\/li>\n<li>In theory, a battery based on the \u201cGraphene ball\u201d material requires only 12 minutes to fully charge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Graphene\u2019s properties<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is ultra-light yet immensely tough<\/li>\n<li>It is 200 times stronger than steel, but it is incredibly flexible.<\/li>\n<li>It is the thinnest material possible as well as being transparent.<\/li>\n<li>It is a superb conductor and can act as a perfect barrier &#8211; not even helium can pass through it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New graphene battery charges 5 times faster\u00a0 What has happened? Scientists have developed a new Graphene-based battery material with charging speed five times faster than today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries Who has done it? Researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in\u00a0South Korea Significance Provides promise for the next generation mobile batteries and electric vehicles&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-graphene-battery-charges-5-times-faster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New graphene battery charges 5 times faster\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702987851},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}