Battery-technology startup NanoGraf has raised $65 million to ramp up production at a West Side factory that will open later this year. Warrenville-based Volta Energy Technologies and CC Industries, the Crown family's holding company, led the investment. TechNexus and five other investors also joined the round, with existing backers, including Hyde Park Angels and Evergreen Climate Innovations.

Start-ups hoping to commercialize silicon materials for battery anodes raised nearly half a billion dollars in the final quarter of 2022. The money is intended to help them build factories and incorporate their materials into mass-market electric vehicles in the next few years.

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Markham interviews Connor Hund, chief operating officer at NanoGraf, an advanced battery material company located in Chicago, Illinois.

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NanoGraf CEO Francis Wang explains the silicon-anode advantages that made it possible and its implications for the US military and others.

“If you told me this is a 10-year play, I would say, yeah, that makes total sense,” Chip Breitenkamp, president of battery materials company NanoGraf, told TechCrunch. “I think 2024, 2025 is really aggressive for what they’re trying to do and the stipulations they put on the tax credit.”

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“I’m a huge bull on recycling,” Breitenkamp said.

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Our CEO, Francis Wang, talked to Wall Street Journal technology reporter Christopher Mims last week about battery market supply chain challenges (including the graphite shortage), and their impact on the “other electric vehicle” – E-bikes. We were excited to see his comments run in this weekend’s edition of the WSJ.

NanoGraf Corporation shares its insights on the lithium shortage and the prospects for non-lithium alternatives.

Dr. Francis Wang, CEO of battery material startup NanoGraf Corp., shared his thoughts about the electric vehicle market and what battery technologies can lead the way.

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“We certainly welcome President Biden’s effort to invoke the Defense Production Act Title III to help secure the domestic production of batteries that is clearly in our national interest,” Dr Francis Wang, CEO of Nanograf told Energy-Storage.news.

Nanograf is a US startup which is developing silicon anodes for lithium batteries which could be a higher energy density replacement for graphite which is typically used today. The company is working to perfect its technology, which it claims could overcome challenges limiting the use of silicon that have prevented others from commercialising it.

Tech company NanoGraf has been developing an advanced material for lithium-ion batteries that they say could help EVs improve their range and performance by upward of 40 percent while significantly reducing manufacturing costs.

NanoGraf President Chip Breitenkamp talks about the new technology and why the U.S. needs to become self-reliant when developing electric vehicle components.