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RE: Why Your Smartphone Battery Won’t Suck Anymore

in #technology9 years ago

You can make graphene at home including your own super capacitors. The real problem here is that it's not stable outside the lab. You hear "tensile strength x steel!", you think OMG this stuff must be the most impressive thing ever.

It's really, really thin flakes of carbon. Take a piece of scotchtape to the shiny side of a piece of coal rub it on smooth and pull it off. Instant graphene! But if you flex it at all it's going to crack. It's not particularly flexible stuff.

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Graphene is really strong but only in the nano and micro scale. Researchers are trying to replicate this to the larger scale for applications out of lab.