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Graphene Meets Lithium One of the major potential uses for graphene is in lithium batteries.
Lithium batteries currently use graphite anodes, which are not the most efficient.
And silicon, a more efficient option, is known to expand when introduced to lithium, which makes for a possibly explosive battery design.
However, graphene can also be grown directly onto silicon layers, which allows for more energy-dense silicon to replace the graphite anodes.
Lithium metal anodes have a capacity 10 times higher than traditional graphite-lithium ion batteries.
Graphene enables this by allowing the silicon to expand, but it also induces a sliding effect across adjacent layers of graphene.
In other words, rather than expanding and exploding, the silicon would expand and redistribute itself safely within the confines of the battery, held securely by a graphene net.
Thankfully, Rice University developed an adhesive into a silicon oxide film that replaces the hiccups lithium metal batteries tend to face.
Led by professor James Tour, the protective silicon oxide layer demonstrated the film soaking up and releasing lithium without the short-circuiting and exploding.
From there, the improved battery design could grow from small devices to larger electric vehicles.
What Rice University is whipping up in terms of electric cars is a supercapacitor film made with two layers of graphene sandwiching an electrolyte layer.
This supercapacitor is intended to cut car charging times down from a couple of hours to a couple of minutes.
They’re also eco-friendly since the supercapacitor’s film is one atom thick.
Supply Lines Graphene isn't like our usual commodities. No one country has the most reserves; no company can dig a mine or a well and find a surefire supply of graphene within the ground.
The sheets of graphene have to be produced bit by bit. And this has been historically difficult.
The market was worth $78.7 million in 2019 and, according to Grand View Research, is expected to rise drastically to $1.08 billion by 2027.
North America currently has the bulk of market share, but the Asia-Pacific area is expected to have the quickest growth in adoption of graphene uses in coming years.
North America and Europe are also expected to have above-market average growth.
The biggest driver of all this growth is expected to be the push for cleaner, more efficient energy sources and the global reduction of emissions in the air.
Demand for this versatile material is expected to boom in relation to its scalability:
When the problem of mass production is out of the way, there will be no stopping graphene's growth.