MGX Minerals Announces Partnership with University of British Columbia to Develop Metallurgical Silicon Based Anode for High...
December 20 2018 - 8:00AM
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MGX Minerals Announces Partnership with University
of British Columbia to Develop Metallurgical Silicon Based Anode
for High-Energy Lithium-Ion
Batteries
Vancouver, BC -- December 20, 2018 -- InvestorsHub
NewsWire -- MGX
Minerals Inc. (“MGX” or the “Company”) (CSE:
XMG / FKT:
1MG / OTCQB:
MGXMF) is pleased to
report it is funding a research consortium with the University of
British Columbia (“UBC”) to develop a low-cost and scalable method
for fabricating Silicon based anode to improve the energy density
of Li-ion batteries. The two-year research program will focus on 1)
fabricating nanostructured silicon using low-cost metallurgical
silicon as a feedstock and 2) compositing nanostructured silicon
with commercial graphite to develop a high-performance silicon
anode. The purpose of the research is to replace the graphite anode
with silicon and complete a hybrid in the short-term which will not
require retooling. The ultimate goal is to enable next-generation
Li-ion batteries capable of quadrupling energy density from current
100 Wh/kg up to 400 Wh/kg for use in long-range electric vehicles
and grid storage.
Leading research and development will be Dr. Jian
Liu, Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at UBC
Okanagan. Dr. Liu is leading a research group focused on advanced
materials for energy storage. Dr. Liu was previously the technical
lead on the development of surface coating materials by atomic and
molecular layer deposition, and their applications in surface and
interface engineering on the anode and cathode of Li-ion batteries
and beyond, at Western University and Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory.
Table 1. Schedule of program
milestones
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Figure 1. Fabrication and evaluation of
Si-based anode for Li-ion
batteries
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MGX Silicon
Projects
MGX operates three silicon projects in southeastern British
Columbia- Koot, Wonah
and Gibraltar. A one-ton sample of quartzite from the Company’s
Gibraltar project was recent shipped to the independent lab Dorfner
Anzaplan (“Dorfner“) in Germany for mineralogical analyses. Dorfner
conducted X-ray diffraction analysis, chemical analyses through
X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, grain size distribution, mineral
processing analysis, automated optical sorting, and thermal
stability testing. Results indicate that the material, after
comminution and classification fraction, is of high initial purity
(99.5 wt.-%), making the fraction chemically suitable as medium
quality feedstock material for metallurgical-grade silicon
production.
About MGX Minerals
Inc.
MGX Minerals is a diversified Canadian resource and
technology company with interests in global advanced material,
energy and water assets.
Contact
Information
Jared Lazerson
President and CEO
Telephone: 1.604.681.7735
Web: www.mgxminerals.com
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