@Bajabeacher: No beef but you are very uninformedI am working in the chemical engineering industry, so those are my credentials for my statements.
First of all, you do not need nano-sized silicon and perfectly uniform structures for the silicon to work as anode materials. If you can control the volume expansion problem with micro silicon, and this is what NEO claims with the coating, you can have a perfectly working silicon anode. If NEO can get micro silicon working, then the energy intensive step to make nano silicon is unnecessary --> More cost savings
NEO is focused on enabling the silicon powders to anode materials not mining the cap-intensive silica, and low on scientific data?? Management is from former LG and Samsung, and your statement just tells that you haven't done your research. They've also gotten plenty of interest from third parties, and this just tells you are a shorty and basher, which is not needed on this channel.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6348/279
This is a research paper that highlights elastic binders for controlling the expansion problem in micro silicon, and this is done by well-known silicon scientists in today's field.