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Applied Nanotech Holdings Receives Contract to Improve Lithium-Ion Batteries

Awarded a $100,000 Phase I contract by the US Army

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (announced that it has been awarded a Phase I contract by the US Army under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a battery anode using a novel silicon nanostructure material for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The amount of the contract is $100,000. Lithium-ion batteries, which make up more than 75 percent of the multi-billion dollar rechargeable battery marketplace, currently use carbon anodes. The innovative technology that ANI...

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