Here is what he said Names. Your'e always asking questions but...

Here is what he said Names. Your'e always asking questions but never willing to do the research. Did you like the cheetah free presentation?

In short? In response to several SH questions at various points about the risk of ‘new technologies’ blindsiding the Company’s LIB strategy, MSW summed up the situation with regard to Magnis Resource’s current technical positioning (status and focus of R&D, and IP) in this way: ‘It will take all these new companies, with their new concepts and engineering approaches you see popping up, at least ten years to accumulate the equivalent battery technology corporate knowledge that we have now, of our LIB’s’.
What, then, does MSW think will keep closing that 60-70-80% performance gap in the intervening years? Here he gave us a brief potted survey of the work that will characterise the continued improvement in LIB’s. This will include the sourcing ofbetter quality graphite ore, and more efficient anode manufacturingprocesses; the ongoing refinement of silicon and tin additions to graphite for improved anodes (energy density, cycling capacity, stability); enhancements in coating to improve Solid-Electrolyte Interface (SEI) performance (stability, charge/capacity, life); a variety of approaches to improving electrolytes (salts, sulphides, gels, additives); improvements in battery package/regulation/design/engineering (electrode packing, separators, electronic and nanotechnological regulation); and, as MSW sees it, the particularly fertile area of improving cathode performance. He thinks that graphite’s weight and volume limitations will mean we’ll eventually do away with it as an anode material altogether, but notes that for now additives are still extracting plenty more grunt, so that won’t be for at least a decade. Where he sees the greater LIB performance advances of the next 5-10 years arising is from the other electrochemical side.