Getting the Juice: How About Silicon-Nanotube Electrodes?
Getting the Juice: How About Silicon-Nanotube Electrodes?
It’s just another research initiative … a fond hope, … but it might work yet. Researchers at Stanford University in California, USA and Hanyang University in Ansan, Korea are working to develop silicon nanotube electrodes that might hold more mobile lithium ions in a lithium battery. The result might be a tenfold increase in battery capability per unit of mass.
That could upgrade electric cars from 40-mile range to 400-mile range. The reason Henry Ford politely declined to work for Thomas Alva Edison on the electric car would disappear
The development program was described in the journal Nano Letters, and Technology Review summarized it at http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23516/
and it has great possibilities.
However, there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. Theoretical possibilities cannot be produced in mass, or the mass production does not drop down to a practical price. Many “inventions” fail during the 80% of the cost phase when the researchers assay to transform them into innovations.
Still, the good news is that nanotube anodes are just part of a robust effort to vastly improve battery capabilities. Some of those efforts—not necessarily this one—must succeed in developing a real product.
It’s just another research initiative … a fond hope, … but it might work yet. Researchers at Stanford University in California, USA and Hanyang University in Ansan, Korea are working to develop silicon nanotube electrodes that might hold more mobile lithium ions in a lithium battery. The result might be a tenfold increase in battery capability per unit of mass.
That could upgrade electric cars from 40-mile range to 400-mile range. The reason Henry Ford politely declined to work for Thomas Alva Edison on the electric car would disappear
The development program was described in the journal Nano Letters, and Technology Review summarized it at http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23516/
and it has great possibilities.
However, there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. Theoretical possibilities cannot be produced in mass, or the mass production does not drop down to a practical price. Many “inventions” fail during the 80% of the cost phase when the researchers assay to transform them into innovations.
Still, the good news is that nanotube anodes are just part of a robust effort to vastly improve battery capabilities. Some of those efforts—not necessarily this one—must succeed in developing a real product.
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