• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Isn’t it just a capacitor at that point if it’s rapid charge and discharge?

    I’ve been seeing these hopes and dreams fly and fail since all the hubbub about graphene batteries. Will believe it when I see it in my devices.

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      5 months ago

      A capacitor stores energy in a different way than an electrochemical cell does

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, like my laptop battery chargers in zero seconds, because it lost the ability to hold its charge, checkmate

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    5 months ago

    Anyone can make a battery that charges in one minute. Tell me when it also has the same capacity as my phone’s battery and will last thousands of charge/discharge cycles.

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      5 months ago

      No, they don’t provide any specifics about the capabilities of individual layers, but I would guess that they can customize the energy density of a solid-state battery by adjusting the manufacturing process.

      They do say that they are only currently the size of a pinhead, so they are still in the proof of concept phase.

      • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I see. It would be nice to at least hear a hypothetical energy density so we can get a feeling as to how good these new batteries would be.

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          5 months ago

          I agree with you, but it sounds like the technique is an advantage because it works at higher and lower temps than standard batteries.

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    5 months ago

    I look forward to hearing about this again in 20 years, or never again