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Discarded glass bottles to fuel next-generation batteries

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'Even with today's recycling programmes, billions of glass bottles end up in landfills every year,' note researchers at the University of California. But they have made an exciting discovery; silicon dioxide present in post-consumer beverage bottles can provide high purity silicon nanoparticles for lithium-ion batteries.

To create the battery anodes, the team used a three-step low-cost chemical reaction process.

This involves crushing and grinding the glass bottles into a fine white power, a magnesiothermic reduction to transform the silicon dioxide into nanostructured silicon, and coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

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