NOVELTY - The anode has an electrode substrate, and a paste comprising silicon, germanium, or silicon germanium alloy nano-crystals (NCs) intercalated with lithium ions, where the paste is distributed on the electrode substrate. A binder is mixed with the paste to make the paste adhere to the electrode substrate, where the paste is nonreactive with air and water, and the binder is electrically conductive. The silicon, germanium, or silicon germanium alloy NCs are formed with a deviation in size distribution of less than 10 nm between respective NC types, or a multimodal size distribution.    USE - Pre-lithiated anode for use in a lithium ion battery e.g. high-power and energy-dense lithium-ion batteries utilized in portable electronics, electric vehicles, and peak power storage.    ADVANTAGE - The anode can be utilized to enable high-yield production of nano-particles e.g. 85 percentages or greater yield, and especially NCs and metal nano-particles, with narrow size distributions, thus providing relatively high-production rates and enabling industrial-scale production of highly uniform nano-particles, including NCs and metal nano-particles. The anode enables aerosolizing the precursor solution forms droplets that causes a volatile solvent to evaporate from the droplet and the nano-particle pre-cursors droplets to coalesce and react when heated above the boiling point of the volatile solvent, thus providing greater yield of nano-particles, and NCs.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a method for manufacturing pre-lithiated anodes for use in a lithium ion battery.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The drawing shows a flow diagram illustrating a process for manufacturing a high energy capacity anode for lithium ion batteries via electrolytic super saturation of lithium into silicon, germanium or silicon-germanium alloy NCs.    Step for mixing the NCs into a solution of an ionic fluid, and/or a non-aqueous solvent, plus a lithium electrolyte, to form a colloidal suspension of the NCs (1002)    Step for connecting a first piece of lithium metal ribbon to a positive electrode (1004)    Step for connecting a second piece of lithium metal ribbon to a negative electrode (1006)    Step for positioning each of the first and second pieces of lithium metal in the colloidal mixture (1008)    Step for ensuring physical separation of the lithium metal electrodes (1010)