{"id":30414,"date":"2022-12-13T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=30414"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:38:26","slug":"energy-dept-invests-100m-in-gleb-yushins-ev-battery-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2022\/12\/13\/energy-dept-invests-100m-in-gleb-yushins-ev-battery-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Dept Invests $100M in Gleb Yushin\u2019s EV Battery Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.gatech.edu\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n                    The company is ramping up production on anode technology Yushin developed at Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the decade since <a href=\"https:\/\/mse.gatech.edu\/people\/gleb-yushin\">Professor Gleb Yushin\u2019s<\/a> battery materials startup <a href=\"https:\/\/atdc.org\/atdc-news\/georgia-tech-entrepreneur-pursuing-greener-energy\/\">participated in Georgia Tech\u2019s Advanced Technology Development Center<\/a>, investments in the company have rolled in \u2014 along with the first customers.<\/p>\n<p>Now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/mesc\/bipartisan-infrastructure-law-battery-materials-processing-and-battery-manufacturing-recycling\">U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is getting on board<\/a> with Yushin\u2019s Georgia Tech startup as part of federal efforts to reinvigorate tech manufacturing in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silanano.com\/press\/press-releases\/u-s-department-of-energy-awards-sila-100-million-to-scale-manufacturing-of-its-next-generation-anode-materials\">DOE awarded Sila Nanotechnologies $100 million<\/a> this fall to support the company\u2019s new factory in Moses Lake, Washington, and help Sila hire and train up to 300 workers for the facility. It was one of 21 projects funded in domestic battery materials processing and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our mission to help move America away from being energy dependent and become a leader in the energy transformation,\u201d said Yushin, the company\u2019s chief technology officer and a faculty member in the Georgia Tech <a href=\"https:\/\/mse.gatech.edu\/\">School of Materials Science and Engineering<\/a>. \u201cWith this funding, Sila will deliver proven, clean energy technology and world-scale manufacturing to revitalize the industry and gain independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birthed from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/battery-powers-future\">Yushin\u2019s research on lithium-ion batteries<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/silanano.com\/\">Sila<\/a> manufactures next-generation materials and a silicon anode technology that boosts battery energy density by 20%. The silicon anodes are a drop-in replacement for graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries. The new facility is projected to produce enough capacity to power 200,000 electric vehicles by 2026. Sila has inked a deal with Mercedes-Benz to use the company\u2019s technology, starting with G-Class vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/energy-dept-invests-100m-gleb-yushins-ev-battery-startup\">Read the full story on the College of Engineering website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company is ramping up production on anode technology Yushin developed at Georgia Tech. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30415,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414\/revisions\/30415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}