Crushed Silicon Could Triple Your Battery Life

GPS · Nov 3, 2012

We worry about battery life a lot these days, and while having to top up your phone at work might not deter you from using it, concern over an electric vehicle’s range certainly will. Batteries rule everything around us, which makes breakthroughs a big deal. A research team at Rice says they have produced a nice jump: By using a crushed silicon anode in a lithium-ion battery, they claim to have nearly tripled the energy density of current li-ion designs.

Engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal and research scientist Madhuri Thakur reported in Nature’s Scientific Reports (it has yet to be published online) that by taking porous silicon and crushing it, they were able to dramatically decrease the volume required for anode material. Silicon has long been looked at as an anode material because it holds up to ten times more lithium ions than graphite, which is most commonly used commercially.

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Source:
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/11/2/crushed-silicon-could-triple-your-battery-life--2

RICE University:
http://news.rice.edu/2012/11/01/rice-team-boosts-silicon-based-batteries/

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