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Graphite which can be mined or manmade looks like it will be the ultimate game changer for batteries, providing much more battery capacity. Any thoughts or information on this subject from making manmade graphite to the potential of graphite batteries would be appreciated. Could this be the ultimate game changer for everything electrical from storing solar power to powering transportation? Any thoughts or information appreciated.
Graphite has been the standard material for anodes almost as long as lithium batteries have existed. When people are talking about silicon anode or solid state (lithium metal), they are talking about replacing the graphite with something else.
Graphite has been the standard material for anodes almost as long as lithium batteries have existed. When people are talking about silicon anode or solid state (lithium metal), they are talking about replacing the graphite with something else.
There is some potential in improving the molecular structure of the anode material, especially when it comes to charge/discharge speed and overall life of the battery. However it's more of an incremental change, and won't really improve energy density.
These kinds of incremental improvements are great, but moving to a lithium metal anode will be a much bigger step change. (Solid state is one of several paths to lithium metal anode)