Lithium-ion battery boost could come from "caging" silicon in graphene

A team at Stanford claims to have made a battery breakthrough that could boost the performance of lithium-ion batteries and also make them smaller and lighter. The researchers managed to remove two long-standing barriers to these improvements by putting silicon particles in graphene "cages."

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Category: Electronics

Tags:

• Batteries
• Lithium-ion
• Graphene
• Silicon

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