Sila Nanotechnologies

Sila Nanotechnologies — the American component manufacturer (silicon anode materials) for rechargeable batteries. They can save energy longer, than analogs which are actively used in production of accumulators. The powder component from Sila is much more effective than graphite because silicon holds much more lithium ions. In addition, silicon is cheaper. However, when silicon incorporates ions, it is quadrupled in sizes. Similar scope change sharply reduces accumulator service life.

To avoid it, engineers of Sila created a special microscopic cage from nanocomposite material on a silicon basis. Such structure holds silicon in certain sizes and does not allow material to extend or be reduced too strongly. It allows ions of lithium to go out of the anode and to come back, without destroying an accumulator body.

The company was founded by natives of the CIS Gene Berdichevsky (was born in Sevastopol) and Gleb Yushin in the past the Petersburger.

History

2021: Attraction of $590 million investments, assessment in $3.3 billion

At the end of January, 2021 Sila Nanotechnologies announced attraction of $590 million investments and receiving assessment of the company in $3.3 billion. As the main investors within a round of financing Coatue Management and T. Rowe Price Associates acted, however amounts of their investments are not concretized.

The component manufacturer attracted $590 million to the Sila Nanotechnologies accumulators

The means received from investors the startup intends to spend construction of the new plant on production of materials. As the founder Gene Berdichevsky noted, investors should come to the industry of production of accumulators and materials to help business to scale the technologies similar to developments of Sila Nanotechnologies.

By the end of January, 2021 of Sila delivers the technologies to several producers of electronics, but the company intends to enter the market of batteries for electric vehicles by 2025. According to plans of a startup, the new factory at peak of power will be able to release components more than for 1 million electrovehicles a year, The Wall Street Journal tells.^[1]

Electric vehicles

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