{"id":332,"date":"2013-01-31T20:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2013-02-02T18:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:15:37","slug":"sci-tech-vorbeck-graphene-speeds-up-li-ion-battery-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Vorbeck graphene speeds up Li-ion battery charging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vorbeck Materials<\/a> has used its graphene<\/a> based material to improve lithium batteries for significantly faster charging: License will lead to faster-charging batteries for phones, electric vehicles – PNL\/Phys.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s encouraging is that this is already getting out of the lab:<\/p>\n

Prototypes of Vorbeck’s battery technologies were already on display earlier this month at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vorbeck Materials has used its graphene based material to improve lithium batteries for significantly faster charging: License will lead to faster-charging batteries for phones, electric vehicles – PNL\/Phys.Org. What’s encouraging is that this is already getting out of the lab: Prototypes of Vorbeck’s battery technologies were already on display earlier this month at the 2013 … Continue reading Sci-Tech: Vorbeck graphene speeds up Li-ion battery charging<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-5m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10305,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10305","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Aluminum battery from Stanford group is low cost, fast charging, and long-lasting","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A low cost battery developed at Stanford using\u00a0an aluminum anode and a graphite cathode displays very fast charging and long life:\u00a0Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries: The new aluminum-ion battery could replace many of the lithium-ion and alkaline batteries in wide use today - Stanford Univ.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Science and Technology"","block_context":{"text":"Science and Technology","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ZKIcYk7E9lU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24785,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=24785","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":1},"title":"Video: Update on graphene development and applications","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"While it probably exaggerates its near-term importance to tell 2022 graduates that \"The future is graphene\" (as The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock, was told in the 60s about plastics) , the future is nevertheless very bright for applications of the amazing one-atom-thick material. 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