Converting Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Into Carbon Nanotubes for Use in Batteries
9th October 2016
The electric vehicle of the future will be carbon negative (reducing the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide) not just carbon neutral (not adding CO2 to the atmosphere), say researchers at Vanderbilt University and George Washington University (GWU).
The trick: replace graphite electrodes in lithium-ion batteries (used in electric vehicles) with carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers recovered from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The new technology could also be used in sodium-ion batteries, currently under development for large-scale applications, such as the electric grid.
October 9th, 2016 at 12:54
How many billions of tons of nanotubes do they expect to make?
Someone has confused their orders of magnitude.