crushed porous silicon anode Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:46:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Crushed Porous Silicon Anode Batteries Overcome Classic Limitations https://www.greenoptimistic.com/crushed-porous-silicon-anode-batteries-overcome-classic-limitations-20121102/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/crushed-porous-silicon-anode-batteries-overcome-classic-limitations-20121102/#respond Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:46:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27558 Researchers from Rice University, led by Lisa Biswali, have developed a cost-effective silicon anode (negative electrode) for rechargeable batteries that easily attains 600 charge-discharge cycles at 1,000 milliamp-hours per gram (mAh/g), which is only a third of its theoretical capacity, but almost thrice the current capacity of graphite anodes. In search of a better replacement […]

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