Why are we still not all driving electric cars? Actually, we will be soon, when silicon anodes will be in all EV batteries. Silicon anodes are the battery technology that can break the limitations of existing batteries in terms of energy density, thus providing electric vehicles with a higher range and faster charging.

The transition to silicon anodes has already been started by global car manufacturers, including Tesla.

In this video, you’ll discover why silicon anodes are the breakthrough battery technology that will change electric cars forever, and how graphene nanotubes (also known as single wall carbon nanotubes) help this technology to finally replace liquid fuels with batteries and begin the real EV revolution!

Sections:
0:00 How soon will we move to electric drive?
0:33 What kind of batteries can finally replace fuel in cars?
0:51 Why are silicon anodes the technology of choice of Tesla and Volkswagen?
1:24 Why hasn't silicon been widely used in batteries until now?
1:34 What does the silicon expansion problem look like?
2:36 How can graphene nanotubes solve the silicon anode problem?
4:03 See microscopic images showing silicon bonded by graphene nanotubes in the anode

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Research links:
Nature Energy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-019-0398-y
Dalhousie University
https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/xmlui/handle/10222/80137
Advanced Energy Materials
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aenm.202002364
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aenm.202100601
Energy & Fuels
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c01084
ACS Applied Energy Materials
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.0c00034
Energy & Environmental Materials
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eem2.12252
Journal of Power Sources https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378775321008533
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378775320300148

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