RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:New Press Release - 18650 Type Batteries Produced With First Gen Engineered SiOx Material Deliver Strong Performance at 25 Cycles NEO is about to do testing on graphite-silicon anodes. If 100% silicon anodes got 1000 cycles adding some graphite should do even more cycles.
Jan 9/2024 - In the upcoming 2024 year, NEO will initiate testing with graphite anode materials to replicate actual lithium-ion battery anode compositions. As today’s EV and electronics batteries employ silicon-graphite composite anodes, NBMSiDE® will be combined with graphite anode materials to target a formidable performance range of 1000+ charging cycles.
Mostlyserious wrote: The pertinent point about the example that you posted is that incorporation of some type of silicon material into graphite anode batteries is not a novel idea and there are countless outfits out there fiddling with it probably including the biggest auto manufacturers who have no shortage of resources to continue development.
So, HPQ, welcome to that big crowd, likely explaining the lack of enthusiasm.
The interesting point about this specific example is that they are working with Si versus SiOx. I believe when HPQ was trying to work with Si, their experience was a "complete failure" and that is why working with Purevap NSiR reactor was discontinued and written off the books. So, it is interesting that it sounds like this other company had a different experience working with pure Si...but who cares, they are another one of countless players doing R&D in this space as well and are likely not getting earthshattering reaction to their NRs either.