Scientific integrity
Targets are labelled as targets. Estimates are labelled as estimates. The distinction is not negotiable.
Company
Built at the point where the science meets the factory.
Silic Tech was created on a specific conviction: a breakthrough material is not commercially meaningful until it can be manufactured reliably, integrated into real production systems, and deployed economically at scale.
Mission and vision
Mission
Accelerate the global transition toward high-energy-density energy storage by making silicon anodes commercially viable, reliable, cost-effective, and scalable.
Vision
A world powered by silicon — where electric vehicles travel farther, devices operate longer, aircraft carry more energy, and renewable electricity can be stored more efficiently.
Philosophy
Eight perspectives on the same material.
Battery innovation fails in the gap between disciplines. A material can be electrochemically excellent and mechanically hopeless; mechanically sound and impossible to synthesise at tonnage; perfectly manufacturable and dependent on a raw material nobody can source.
We evaluate every decision against all of these at once:
- Electrochemical performance
- Mechanical stability
- Materials architecture
- Interface engineering
- Manufacturing compatibility
- Raw-material availability
- Process scalability
- Commercial viability
Founder
Ebrahim Feyzi
A battery researcher and materials engineer working at the point where electrochemistry meets manufacturing reality.
- Role
- Founder
- Based in
- Montreal, Canada
Background
- PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering, Concordia University
- Research focus on lithium-ion batteries and next-generation anode materials
- Direct experience with silicon/graphite composite anodes
- Electrochemistry, electrode formulation, coin-cell assembly, cycling, and materials characterisation
- Research interest in machine learning and AI for advanced battery materials
- Double Master's in materials engineering and chemistry, European institutions
- Academic publication experience in battery technology and advanced materials
- Professional background in quality control, quality assurance, manufacturing inspection, and industrial project environments
Values
What we hold ourselves to.
Innovation
Material architecture is the lever. We work at the length scale where the problem actually lives.
Performance
Capacity that does not survive cycling is not capacity. We optimise for what remains after hundreds of cycles.
Scalability
A material that cannot be made at tonnage is a publication, not a product.
Execution
Research discipline paired with the quality and process thinking that industrial manufacturing demands.
Collaboration
Cell manufacturers, OEMs, and material partners hold knowledge we need. We build with them, not around them.
Sustainability
The climate case for this material is energy density.
Batteries are how electrification and renewable generation actually get delivered. Storing more energy in less material is the contribution we can credibly make — so that is the one we claim.
More energy in less material
A higher-capacity anode stores more energy per unit of mass and volume. That can mean fewer cells, less inactive material, and a lighter pack for the same delivered energy.
An abundant material base
Silicon and carbon are among the most abundant elements available to industry, and are less exposed to the concentrated supply chains that constrain some battery materials.
Built for existing factories
Designing for conventional electrode coating and roll-to-roll lines means adoption need not require building new plant — avoided capital is avoided embodied impact.
Supporting electrification
Transport electrification and renewable integration are both constrained by storage. Improving the anode is one lever on that constraint.
Scalable, not laboratory-only
A material that only works at gram scale changes nothing. Process scalability is treated as a design requirement from the start, not a later problem.
Leadership & advisors
This section is intentionally empty.
Silic Tech has not yet appointed a leadership team or advisory board. Rather than fill this space with placeholder portraits or aspirational titles, we are leaving it as it is until there are real people to name.
If you are a battery scientist, manufacturing leader, or operator who wants to help build this, we would like to hear from you.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Montreal sits inside one of the more deliberate battery-materials ecosystems in North America — hydroelectric power, an established research base in electrochemistry, and active public investment in the battery supply chain.