Dutch battery startup LeydenJar’s silicon anode tech could pose a challenge to China

Startup of battery materials Ledeenzer The Silicon Anode technology has stopped $ 13 million ($ 15.2 million) rounds for an unnamed “US -led customer electronics company”.

The Netherlands-based startup will use funds with $ 10 million promises from the US customer, the first episode of its convenience, in the Indhoveven of Plantone, Netherlands, which will be opened in 2027.

Today, most lithium-ion batteries in the world and graphite anode among them are made in China.

Silicone anodees could This relationship is upen The effectiveness of the lithium-ion battery is dramatically improved. Slowly and stable progress has doubled their energy density Over the past decadeLedenzer says that its authentic silicone anode can increase their traditional taid graphite anode by 50%.

Battery makers know this for a long time, but the fine nature of silicon has stopped them from incorporating abundance. Silicon lithium ions swell when preserving and it will be constantly crushed with the charging cycle without any structure to support it.

To compensate, silicone anode startups have created different scaffolds to break the things. The spongy silicone columns on the thin sheet of the ladener tobat use the plasma vapor to increase. These sponge columns may swell and shrink, filling the space between them while loading with lithium.

The company says that silicon structures enables quick charging and a low carbon footprint. It can prevent more than 450 charges before losing more than 5% of its capacity, a figure that shows progress, but automackers are usually less than 1000 cycles that shoot.

And EVs are on the roadmap of Lideenzer, the company is starting with Customer Electronics, it’s a path that is a contestant They are Its silicone unode material has been followed to introduce.

In order to enter EVS, there is a long road in front of the Ledenzer. Automakers usually need a few years of data before qualifying new battery, and it may take several years to create large -scale factories to meet the demand. Nevertheless, nothing is settled in the battery industry, and if the agency can prove its material, a step in the performance without leaving durability or production, it will find a lot of interested buyers.