Silicon products supplier Paraclete Energy has been selected to join the US Office of Vehicle Technology’s next generation anodes consortium project.
US-based Paraclete said its silicon metal nanoparticle, with a silicon oxide coating and a particle size of ~150nm, has been selected for the consortium, which includes Argonne National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The arrangement gives the consortium “a source of material where the process for producing the material is known and can be reproduced over multiple batches”, Paraclete said. “Having this process knowledge and consistent material provides a good baseline material to evaluate the performance of the nano-silicon particles in lithium-ion battery applications.”
Paraclete Energy CEO Jeff Norris said the consortium “will be publishing many credible studies that will include Paraclete Energy’s silicon, which will help the industry move the science closer to enabling both next generation anodes and the role of high capacity silicon in accomplishing that objective”.
Paraclete is a production volume manufacturer of various high capacity silicon products to include its cycle stable Surface Modified nanoparticle silicon metal for the battery industry known as SM-Silicon.
