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Good article

Michael Wong is still busy


Rice team boosts silicon-based batteries

'Crushed' porous silicon anodes show dramatic increase in charge-discharge cycles

HOUSTON – (Nov. 1, 2012) – Researchers at Rice University have refined silicon-based lithium-ion technology by literally crushing their previous work to make a high-capacity, long-lived and low-cost anode material with serious commercial potential for rechargeable lithium batteries.


http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-11/ru-rtb102912.php
........worth a slow read and a thought or two, imo



Looking a little deeper....

"For example, we use lipid molecules to control the placement of CdSe tetrapods for solar cell applications."

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~biswalab/Biswal_Research_Group/Research.html


LANCER

Projects and Collaborators 2011

http://lancer.rice.edu/pdfs/Website_Projects.pdf


Smalley Institute
http://nano.rice.edu/nano_at_rice/ ........ : )