Stanford reports 10x Li-Ion capacity incresee

They inadvertently omitted the mandatory nanotube statements "five to ten years from commercial products" and "may lead to a cure for cancer and diabetes."

PR breakthroughs like this have happened approximately daily for the last eight years or so. So far, I know of no successful nanotube based products, except maybe selling nanotubes themselves.

John

Nanotubes or nanotechnology? The supercapacitors are enabled by nanotechnology...

"Cui said that a patent application has been filed. He is considering formation of a company or an agreement with a battery manufacturer. Manufacturing the nanowire batteries would require "one or two different steps, but the process can certainly be scaled up," he added. "It's a well understood process.""

and...

"Given the mature infrastructure behind silicon, this new technology can be pushed to real life quickly," Cui said.

The very same VC parasites who gave us the dot.com/fiberoptics boom (I could name names) tried hard to start a nanotech boom [1]. They had nanotech conferences at $400-a-night Peninsula hotels, churned press releases, started Small Times magazine, and started buying up (stealing, actually) arguably-nanotech companies. They defined "nanotech" as "anything small", which allowed them to take credit for everything from soot to IC's, and somehow managed to get MEMS included.

The academics cooperated and went crazy for buckyballs and nanotubes.

It didn't work for them, so the VCs have moved on to Web 2.0 or something.

John

[1] well, I got sucked in, too. That puts me about negative one year of work, one lawsuit with the Sand Hill vultures, and positive 100,000 shares of worthless stock. Parts were fun.

Reminds me of a German science ministry head, da big guy, who proclaimed that all TVs will be flat screens within two years. I laughed so hard. This was IIRC around 1975 ...

Ouch. But I guess we all have to go through something that blows up in our face at some point. No risk - no success.

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It can be hard to tell what new ideas will fly, and when. I remember seeing reports of data storage by burning pits in tellurium thin films deposited on glass platters back around the early 80's IIRC, and thinking "no way is that going to evolve into an under $30 DVD/CD-RW drive that will put an entire 4.5G digital movie on 10 cent media from the local office supply store in 10 minutes" - or something like that.

Since this one makes enough sense to me that I think it will turn into a real battery within 10 years enough to bet a beer on it, it probably has some fundamental flaw yet to be revealed :-).

Cool stuff! I could end up in a decent Electric Motorcycle before I die after all!

Looks like my hair cut.

So too have solar cells.

But you laughed so hard a couple of years ago and it's happened now. ;=)

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You forgot to mention a few articles that indicate nanotubes and nanoparticles *aggrivate* cancers and pollution.

All you need is a patent and a slick tongue to get a few million dollars for a start-up - and then quietly drain the money and let it die...

I think you made my point.

No, IDIOT!

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You do not know anything close to what you think you know. Your "guess as you go" style sticks out like a sore thumb in so many of your posts.

And you wonder why, as I take note of your IDIO-syncracies... why I do not like your spew.

Hey, TURD! We both know how they re-assign ;-) TURD!

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A "COUPLE"? Sounds like THIRTY years to me! I suspect Joerg knew it was going to take a LOT longer than 2 years to get that technology working and affordable.

Jon

IBM will be making nano-wire memory chips that will have hard drive capacities. Magnetic domains by the billions on a chip!

Check this week's EE Times for the article.

Two years ago I owned a flat screen :-)

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It would also be the time to take a step back and think a bit about the density of the packaged energy. There comes a point where that gradually turns dangerous, as evidenced by a few Li-Ion batteries that went "exotherm".

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