Copying my comment from reddit the other day: Wow, this might be one of those rare instances where new research is gonna proceed rapidly into industry. The pa

Copying my comment from reddit the other day: Wow, this might be one of those rare instances where new research is gonna proceed rapidly into industry. The paper[1] isn't shy about it either. This is great on all fronts: increases cycle life, charge speed, and even marginally increases capacity. They're very optimistic about integrating it into production lines and it seems cost-effective. Cheap, even. The inputs are methane and fumed silica into a 1000 C furnace- you can practically buy those at a hardware store and then it just gets mixed into the r2r slurry. I think it's pretty likely that charge speeds are about to increase handily. Fig. 4 shows the battery with additives charging at 5 C compared to virgin chemistry at 1 C. That's about 5 minutes to charge the middle 50% of a battery- incredible. Still remains to be seen if this is compatible with standard additives and SEI conditioning, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work out fine. I feel the same about the CVD but it looks like it was fast and easy from the paper (as much as I recall right now). Certainly way less exotic than most CVD. [1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01823-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01823-7