Battery Research Notes
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Charging: lithium ions leave the cathode and settle in the anode. Schematic, not to scale.

Battery Research Notes

Weekly notes on papers, start-ups, reports and industry needs in battery research.

First note: silicon anodes, dry coating and AI-guided electrodes

A first round-up for this blog: a UK silicon anode funding round, dry-coating activity in Dresden, and a paper on AI-guided anode optimization.

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Each dot is a note, placed by publication date on a typical lithium-ion discharge curve. The dashed part is capacity still to come.