Inventor John Goodenough, Nobel-winning co-creator of the lithium battery, dies at 100 in Austin

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Receiving this message may not have been possible without the work of inventor John Goodenough, who died Sunday in Austin at the age of 100, three years after winning the Nobel Prize.

Lithium-ion batteries were the first truly portable and rechargeable batteries, and they took more than a decade to develop. Whittingham said in 2019 that he had no inkling that his work decades ago would have such a profound impact on the world.

Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino each had unique breakthroughs that laid the foundation for developing a commercial rechargeable battery and the three shared the $900,000 Nobel Prize.Nobel Prize Chemistry Laureates Akira Yoshino, John B Goodenough and M Stanley Whittingham pose after their Nobel Lectures at Stockholms University in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 8, 2019.

By 1980, Goodenough had built on Whittingham's work and doubled the battery's capacity to four volts by using cobalt oxide in the cathode, one of the two electrodes that make up the ends of a battery.

 

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