Nanowire Lithium Batteries One Step Closer

Lithium-ion batteries have over the past few years became the best choice for most consumer applications such as laptop and mobile phone batteries. The rate at which they are constantly improved has started to decline, mostly because the existing manufacturing technology has reached its limit... [ read more >> ]

Carbon nanowires coated with silicon (bottom) produces a material that can store six times as much charge as the graphite used in today’s lithium battery electrodes. (Bare carbon nanowires shown at top

Image comment: Carbon nanowires coated with silicon (bottom) produces a material that can store six times as much charge as the graphite used in today’s lithium battery electrodes. (Bare carbon nanowires shown at top
Image credits: Yi Cui / Stanford University

Carbon nanowires coated with silicon (bottom) produces a material that can store six times as much charge as the graphite used in today’s lithium battery electrodes. (Bare carbon nanowires shown at top
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