Nobel-winning lithium battery inventor John Goodenough dies at 100

Nobel-winning lithium battery inventor John Goodenough dies at 100

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Category : Obituaries Published on: June 29 2023

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Nobel laureate, John B. Goodenough, the pioneer of the development of lithium-ion batteries that are used in millions of electric vehicles all around the world, has died at the age of 100.
The lithium-ion battery is one of the most important inventions in the world of science and technology.
Goodenough received the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry- along with Britain’s Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino, for their respective research into lithium-ion batteries - making him the oldest recipient of a Nobel Prize.
He also played a significant role in the development of Random Access Memory (RAM) for computers.
He also was an early developer of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes as an alternative to nickel- and cobalt-based cathodes. LFP is rapidly overtaking more-expensive nickel cobalt manganese in electric vehicle batteries as it uses materials that are sustainable at much lower cost.
He also served the US Army during the Second World War as a meteorologist.
In 2008, he wrote his autobiography, Witness to Grace, which he called “my personal history".

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