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      "text": "“Anyone in this area knows this is just a little R&D test. Their conclusion that 'material entitlement exists for full charge in less than 5 minutes.' I don't know that I buy that. You've got a 25C rate there, and they're saying; we did this, and dendrites didn't form. Yeah but, you only did that test that one time. And normally, what happens is dendrites grow a little bit on every cycle, and you maybe even reverse them a little bit as you discharge, and then you grow a little more as you charge, but generally, it doesn't go all the way back. So, you do this a number of times, and then failure occurs.” — Solid-state materials expert #1; “One of the reasons why is because you have an aging effect. If they just said, we can do 100 mA/cm2, and we're just going to 100mA /cm2 50 times and if they charged, even if they stripped lower, but let's say they charged at 100mA/cm2, then they discharged at a low current and then they did that again and again and again, that is one thing that would convince me, like, okay, this is real, and it's really impressive. The way they've shown it, it's kind of a gimmick.” — Solid-state materials expert #2",
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