Graphene is 200 times harder than steel, it is flexible, and highly conductive, which makes it a material superior to gold and silicon for certain applications.
In a world where mobile devices are becoming thinner and thinner and wearables appear, graphene may be the material of the future due to its characteristics. This material could start a new wave of innovation in design and manufacturing of hardware that could lead to incredibly thin and flexible devices.
Graphene is graphite, the material that we find inside pencils, but arranged in a layer one atom thick. The arrangement of these carbon molecules makes the material stronger than steel and even diamond. It is also flexible, conductive, and so transparent that it is nearly invisible to the naked eye. It can be applied to the creation of flexible displays and devices that can be folded.
Apple, Samsung and Google are allegedly in a race to acquire patents and other intellectual properties that involve the design and use of this material in mobile and portable devices. With global mobile device sales expected to reach $ 847 billion in 2016 and the exploitation of wearable technology contributing to the business $ 19 billion in the next five years, the development of graphene can be essential for the competitiveness of a company in the electronics market.
The biggest obstacle to the widespread adoption of graphene is the high cost of production, so studies are also being carried out in this direction.
«Global technology companies are facing the limits of innovation in hardware and design, and in order to move to the next level, new materials such as graphene need to be embraced."Said Seoul National University professor Hong Byung Hee in an interview. «Our technology for the mass production of graphene is receiving considerable interest from companies like Apple, Samsung and even Google.«
Stuffed article bullshit in which nothing is said.
Apple is 9 years late
http://www.yankodesign.com/2005/09/30/nokia-888-mobile-phone-by-tamer-nakisci/
If for that same reason. Apple is still Apple and Nokia is no longer Nokia, it is now Microsoft. If the former Nokia executives had not sold it, they would be bankrupt. So Nokia's innovation didn't do much good.
Nokia stopped being nokia because it had a very hard head with symbian instead of adapting to the new times, just as it will happen to apple.
10 years ago, Nokia was the leading brand in smartphones, for its quality, resistance and, above all, for Symbian, which crushed the other proprietary OSs.
Carmen Rodríguez, what an article
Samsung has 400 times more patents on graphene than Apple
You should change the title of the "blog"
It costs you nothing, it works for another brand even
Friend innovation is created by mixing what already exists, to create something new. But everything has always come from a base. Just as I happen with the iPhone a mixture of a common cell phone and an iPod. Samsung is not the only one with patents on that. It is useless to say who has more and who has less. The important thing here is that we all win with better Smartphone's and we do not get stuck in technology! 😄
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