[Red Badger]

The new double-walled silicon nanotube anode is made by a clever four-step process: Polymer nanofibers (green) are made, then heated (with, and then without, air) until they are reduced to carbon (black). Silicon (light blue) is coated over the outside of the carbon fibers. Finally, heating in air drives off the carbon and creates the tube as well as the clamping oxide layer (red). Credit: Hui Wu, Stanford, and Yi Cui

[frithguild]

Within just a few cycles, the strain of expansion and contraction, combined with the electrolyte attack, destroys the anode through a process called "decrepitation."

Am I an annode?

[Moltke]

Cui bono?

Yes!

[Sirius Lee]

Or to use Star Trek metaphorology:

Jordi: "Like a fat tritanium skinned snake that gets stuck in a boraxian gerbil hole and then Rigelian worms eat out it's innards!"

[QBFimi]

Quick, Watson - bring me some vortex generators!
AC or DC, sir?

Over the Alps in a kilocycle.

(At least there are no turbo encabulators involved in the new technology.)