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Is XNRGI one of the Argonne lab's unnamed few

Both Companies Enevate and Xnrgi are Gold Sponors with DOW and 123 Systems


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The Battery Boost We’ve Been Waiting for Is Only a Few Years Out
Date: March 19, 2018
Source: Wall Street Journal
The batteries that power our modern world -- from phones to drones to electric cars -- will soon experience something not heard of in years: Their capacity to store electricity will jump by double-digit percentages, according to researchers, developers and manufacturers.

The next wave of batteries, long in the pipeline, is ready for commercialization.

https://www.mema.org/battery-boost-we%E2%80%99ve-been-waiting-only-few-years-out

The trick is, silicon brings with it countless technical challenges. For instance, a pure silicon anode will soak up so many lithium ions that it gets “pulverized” after a single charge, says George Crabtree, Ph.D., director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, established by the U.S. Department of Energy at the University of Chicago Argonne lab to accelerate battery research.

Current battery anodes can have small amounts of silicon, boosting their performance slightly. The amount of silicon in a company’s battery is a closely held trade secret, but Dr. Crabtree estimates that in any battery, silicon is at most 10 percent of the anode. In 2015, Tesla founder Elon Musk revealed that silicon in the Panasonic-made batteries of the auto maker’s Model S helped boost the car’s range by 6 percent.

Now, some startups say they are developing production-ready batteries with anodes that are mostly silicon. Sila Nanotechnologies, Angstron Materials, Enovix and Enevate, to name a few, offer materials for so-called lithium-silicon batteries, which are being tested by the world’s largest battery manufacturers, car companies and consumer-electronics companies.