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DOE awards Georgia Tech and help Sila hire and train up to 300
battery startup $100 million workers for the facility. It was one of 21
projects funded in domestic battery mate-
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the decade rials processing and manufacturing.
since Professor Gleb Yushin’s battery
materials startup participated in Geor- “It’s our mission to help move
gia Tech’s Advanced Technology De- America away from being en-
velopment Center, investments in the ergy dependent and become a
company have rolled in — along with leader in the energy transfor-
the fi rst customers. mation,” said Yushin, the com-
pany’s chief technology offi cer
Gleb Yushin
DOE is now onboard and a faculty member in the
Now the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Georgia Tech School of Materials Science
is getting on board with Yushin’s Georgia and Engineering.
Tech startup as part of federal eff orts to
reinvigorate tech manufacturing in the Sila was developed from Yushin’s research
United States. on Li-Ion batteries. The company makes
next-generation materials and a silicon an-

DOE awarded Sila Nanotechnologies $100 ode technology that boosts battery energy
million this fall to support the company’s density by 20%. The anodes are a drop-in
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