silicon can make lithium ion batteries ten times better at energy storage

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-silicon-strategy-batteries.html
With Mahduri Thakur, a post-doctoral researcher in Rice’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, and Mark Isaacson of Lockheed Martin, Biswal, Wong and Sinsabaugh found that putting micron-sized pores into the surface of a silicon wafer gives the material sufficient room to expand. While common lithium-ion batteries hold about 300 milliamp hours per gram of carbon-based anode material, they determined the treated silicon could theoretically store more than 10 times that amount.

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