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Giant smartphone maker Samsung is planning to develop the latest technology that will boost the lithium-ion battery battery life. The new technology is based on Graphene that will enhance the battery life by 1.8 times.
By doubling the battery life, Samsung claimed that most of the smartphones will finally have units which will be adept to carry charge of more than 6000mAh, which should be adequate even for people with high usage to sail through an entire day despite the battery draining out, Pierce Pioneer reported.
Samsung has reportedly found the fix through a new Graphene Technology that aims to boost the energy density of the lithium-ion batteries by 1.8 times than the current ones. The technology would help replace the graphite anode which makes way for the energy into the battery. The graphite anodes would be replaced with silicon batteries coated with graphene.
In a recent reaserch paper published in Nature, Samsung researchers stated that the graphene coating on the silicon base helps the silicon to expand in volume with the help of a sliding procedure among the two conjoining graphene sheets.
According to the researchers, when the silicon is combined with lithium cobalt oxide cathode (commercial), the entire battery with the help of the silicone coated graphene (carbide-free) reaches a figure of 972 and 700 Whl-1 (volumetric energy density) in the beginning and at the 200th cycle. This energy development is said to be 1.8 and 1.5 times higher than those of the prevailing lithium-ion cells in the market.
