Northwestern Startup: NanoGraf

Founded: 2012

Northwestern Inventor:
Harold Kung
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Jiaxing Huang
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Materials Science

Formerly SiNode Systems, NanoGraf pursues advances in Lithium-ion battery anodes to transform a wide range of industries from consumer electronics to electric vehicles. NanoGraf’s anode technology utilizes a composite of silicon nano-particles within a patent-pending graphene scaffolding system that increases a battery's energy density (5-7 times) and reduces the charging time of a lithium-ion battery up to a factor of 10.

NanoGraf Website