"Research doubles electric car range" claim #4,381 - but who's counting?

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4. They published in the ACS journal Nano Letters in February

You have to pay for the article, but here's more info:

"Researchers from the University of Wollongong, Australia and the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, have developed a germanium oxide/germanium nanocomposite (GeO2/Ge/C) anode material for Li-ion batteries that shows a high capacity of up to 1860 mAh/g at 1 C (2.1 A/g) rate and 1680 mAh/g at 10 C rate. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

They attributed the good electrochemical performance to the increase in reversibility of the conversion reaction of GeO2 by the presence of the elemental germanium nanoparticles present in the composite."

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2013/02/seng-20130210.html