More research and development are needed to use soy-carbons to fabricate high energy capacity batteries (advanced batteries) to meet the current demand for portable energy in automobile and electronic industries.

* Fabricate highly porous carbons using soybean hulls/meals (soy-carbon)
* Incorporate sulfur in the pores of soy-carbon for lithium-sulfur batteries
* Fabricate and test the lithium-sulfur batteries containing sulfur loaded soy-carbon
* Optimize the process to fabricate soy-carbon based electrodes for metal-air batteries
* Fabricate and analyze the metal-air batteries
* File a second patent on the soy-carbon for advanced batteries and work towards the commercialization in partnership with MSMC

* High-performance soy-carbon from low-cost starting materials (soybean hulls/meals) for battery industries
* Soy-carbon with tunable porosity and nitrogen content for commercial applications (could be used in other applications such as water purification, catalysts, etc.)
* Advanced batteries with high energy and power densities using soy-carbon
* Create a new demand for value-added applications of low-cost soybean by-products for electronic industries
* File a patent on the new technology/products and works towards commercialization in partnership with MSMC
* New skilled workforce within the United States

Supplying raw materials for such a huge industry using soybean hulls/meals will provide significant financial benefits to soybean growers as this project provides value-added applications of low-cost soybean by-products.