2019 Nobel Prize In Chemistry Awarded To Father Of Lithium Battery And Three Scientists

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Professor John B. Goodenough, Professor Stanley Whittingham, and Professor Yoshino Akira. : Contributions to the development of lithium batteries.

Goodinoff first discovered lithium cobaltate as a suitable cathode material, and later discovered manganese-based spinels and lithium iron phosphate. After establishing the basic framework of lithium-ion batteries, Yoshino continued to improve its performance and safety. In 1979, Goodinev found that lithium cobaltate was suitable as a cathode material, reducing the safety hazards of existing lithium-ion batteries (made of metal lithium as a cathode material). Yoshino adopted this discovery, using polyacetylene followed by carbon-based materials as the anode, eliminating metallic lithium in the battery, and using lithium-containing compounds to establish the basic framework of modern lithium-ion batteries. In 1991, Sony Corporation introduced the lithium-ion battery jointly developed by the two to the market, marking the widespread application of lithium-ion batteries. Today, lithium-ion batteries are widely used in mobile electronic equipment, electric vehicles, and solar energy. With his achievements in the field of lithium-ion batteries, Yoshino Akira became the 8th Japanese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the 22nd Japanese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in natural sciences.

Winner Profile-

John Benningster Goodinuff

On July 25, 1922, Professor Gudinav was born in the United States and is now 97 years old. In 1943, he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University. After World War II, Goodinav received a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1952. From 1952 to 1976, Goodenough worked at the Lincoln Laboratory at MIT, where he mainly conducted material physics research on memory. In 1976, Goodinav joined Oxford University as a professor and head of inorganic chemistry research. Since 1986, Goodinoff has been a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and has continued his research in energy materials.

Yoshino Akira

Professor Yoshino Akira was born in Osaka, Japan on January 30, 1948. He is 71 years old. Professor Yoshino graduated from the Petrochemical Department of the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1970, obtained a master's degree in engineering in 1972, and a doctorate in engineering from Osaka University in 2005. In 1972, Akira Yoshino joined Asahi Kasei Industrial Co., Ltd., served as the head of AT & T's technology development in 1994, and served as the head of the ion secondary battery business promotion room of Asahi Kasei Industrial in 1997. Since 2005, Professor Yoshino has served as the head of the Yoshino Laboratory of Asahi Kasei Corporation.

Whitingham

Professor Whittingham is currently working at the Northeast Chemical Energy Storage Center (NECCES) and the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) at Binghamton University. He and John B. Goodenough have achieved pioneering research in the field of lithium batteries and were predicted by Thomson Reuters in 2015 as candidates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Professor Whittingham received the Young Scholar Award from the ECS Electrochemical Society in 1971, the Battery Research Award from the ECS Electrochemical Society in 2004, and was elected to the ECS Electrochemical Society in 2006 for his contributions to the science and technology of lithium batteries member.