Can nanotechnology solve our battery production problem?

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[KP-sgfm]

Never imagined that one day Macklemore would be teaching me about lithium production and nanotubes. 2021 is starting off great.

[lpt]

man i love these topics
keep going with this these fantastic video's

[oxbowtwo]

Glad to see my area of research being brought to the lime light! I study the structural aspects of MOFs (how the geometry of the organic linkers and metal nodes influence the overall structure) and it really is true that the number of possible combinations is basically infinite. You could run a whole series on just the different applications that MOFs have the potential/are used for !

[williamclark]

I'm so thankful that curious people are happy to devote their lives to the difficult work of research and development and that sometimes we can all benefit from it.

[orphidian]

a reverse idea: partner this tech with desalination plants for retrieving lithium? since they produce huge amounts of brine as waste product?

[emmanuelr]

Desalination plants produce fresh water and leaves half brine. The brine produces lithium and cools the area around it. Win-win.

[gobl-analienabductedbyhuma]

I guess everyone was waiting for the question "and when do you think you will be to market and with what quantities? "

[geoffgodwin]

Just found this channel yesterday and I've binged ten videos already. The quality of your breakdown and analysis along with the editing is perfect. If this channel isn't over a million subs by next year I'll be both surprised and disappointed in the world.

[theseeker]

The more I’m exposed to such technologies, the more I see a coming golden age! I hope these guys can pull it off!

[AnkitChauhan-rtzg]

If John B. Goodenough is involved, it sure will be "Goodenough" 🙏😁

[alaneasthope]

Alchemy for the 21st century! Awesome.

[keenan]

when i watch these videos i feel like im watching a better version of what my science teahcer was showing me in in highschool. thanks matt, keep me on that learning cuuurve.

[zachariahstovall]

I love you matt. I don't get out much lately. I look forward to your videos to brighten my day.

[PatricioHondagneuRoig]

Man, your channel is an underrated treasure!

[firdaushbhadha]

When is his company going to give us their IPO?

[jeremychristensen]

Fascinating, I a world that seems to be doom and gloom, your channel brings some light and optimism to the world.
Thx

[thtiger]

In home storage batteries are not under the same strictures as an in a car battery. A standard very large lead acid battery, such as they use in forklifts, would make a great back up storage medium for a single home, at a fraction of the cost. Install them on an outdoor cement pad like heat pumps, easily replaced, easily recycled.

[KaDaJxClonE]

Actually really amazed the Mike "The Situation" knows so much about Lithium mining. Dudes come a long way.

[InVIism]

As a Ph.D. student (I work on membrane processes for water treatment) I realize how incredibly far from practical and real use is what you do in lab. There are millions of great ideas, but only really a few are scalable. In the end, everything is about economy. It's similar to creating a car prototype vs building mass production (as Elon often emphasises), but sometimes with even wider gap. During my Master's study (of a programme actually called Nanomaterials) I met MOFs several times. It is very cool to see somebody taking it so far with it! There is much more to them, hydrogen storage being one of it's sexiest potential applications.

[sonofclayton]

You mention water purification at the end - IIRC they already use something like this in SoCal. To avoid using chemicals for water filtration, they have filters which filter water physically, letting only molecules the size of H2O or smaller through a membrane. They look like straws which get increasingly narrow, arranged in bundles of thousands. Can't remember the name of the documentary, but it was years ago so hopefully its tech that's further along now!