Old Tires Lead To Better Anodes In Lithium-Ion Batteries

In the 1970s, Florida environmentalists who had invented the notion that landfills were going to overrun America came up with the idea of making coral reefs out of tires. A few short decades later, the clean-up costs when those all came loose were 100X the supposed savings and tires have fallen out of favor as clever quick fixes since then. Leave it to people in Tennessee to find a new use for old tires.  Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have found a way to use them to make better lithium-ion batteries. read more

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