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UCR team finds adding even small amounts of tin to Si-based anode greatly improves charge capacity and cycling stability

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It is well-known that the conductivity of silicon-based active layers can be improved by increasing the weight fraction of conductive carbon-based additives such as nanotubes or carbon black, but this approach inevitably “dilutes” the active layer, i.e. decreases its average gravimetric and volumetric capacity. Resources. Beaudette, J.

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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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My co-founder Chad Vecitis, who’s now our VP of R&D, was a full-time professor at Harvard and actually developed this technology over 10 years ago. O’Connor: That’s part of the innovation—using a carbon-based filter in our system, instead of using traditional filters you’d see in filter presses.

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Yissum offering novel high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries; antimony sulphide nanoparticle-coated graphene

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The material provides more than two times the capacity of hard carbon, retains its charge capacity even at high current rates, and exhibits a charge and discharge time of 10 minutes. Prikhodchenko, Chad W. This would allow fast charging of NIBs in the future, which could enable utilization in applications such as electric vehicles.

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