Recycling silicon for batteries

Electronic waste is slowly becoming a large-scale problem for our technologically advanced society. Rice University researchers have developed a new way of recycling silicon into flexible components for lithium-ion batteries. Silicon, despite its ubiquitous usage in modern electronics, is notoriously difficult to recycle. Silicon also happens to be a more effective cathode that the currently prevalent carbon, but is not commonly used because it is inflexible and breaks down quickly. Rice...