Anode

A promising new anode material enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely recharged within minutes for thousands of cycles
Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan, both professors in the Bourns College of Engineering.
Charging Portable Electronics in 10 Minutes
By precisely controlling the process used to make them, Stanford and SLAC researchers can produce pomegranate clusters of a specific size for silicon battery anodes. Left: Microscopic clusters form a fine black powder that can be coated on foil to create an anode. Middle: A single cluster. Right: In this close-up of a cluster, a silicon nanoparticle can be seen inside its yolk shell, with space to swell during battery charging. Credit: Nian Liu, Zhenda Lu and Yi Cui/Stanford
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