Silicon Energy Storage Gets $10 Million Love Letter From US Military
“The grant from the DoD is meant to develop silicon anode-based lithium-ion technology that is,” NanoGraf explained. “The goal is to increase equipment runtime by 50-100% when compared to traditional graphite anode lithium-ion cells, and allow batteries to have a shelf life of more than two years and operate across a wide temperature range from -4° F to 131° F.”
Initial work on NanoGraf’s silicon anode began more than 10 years ago, at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University in Illinois. NanoGraf started up in 2012 under the name SiNode Systems.with the Lawrence Berkeley, Renewable Energy, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Sandia national laboratories to “surmount the barriers associated with development of an advanced anode based on silicon-carbon electrodes.
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