2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Announced: Lithium Battery Developer Awards

Beijing time on October 9th news, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced: American scientist John B. Goodenough, American scientist M. Stanley Whittingham and Japanese scientist Akira Yoshino won the award, the reason for the award: due to the development of lithium-ion batteries.

Winner profile:

John B. Goodenough: American solid physicist, an important scholar in the secondary battery industry. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin.

M. Stanley Whittingham: Anglo-American chemist, currently a professor of chemistry and materials research at the State University of New York at Binghamton University and director of materials science and engineering.

Yoshino Akira: Japanese chemist, currently a researcher at Asahi Kasei and a professor at Mingcheng University. Zi Yanzhang commendation. Yoshino is the inventor of modern lithium-ion batteries (LIB) and has received the highest honor in the engineering world for the Global Energy Award [1] and the Charles Stark Draper Award.

Previously, the American Chemical Society's weekly Chemical and Chemical News (C&EN) made quite accurate predictions. At the time, the journal said that this year's chemistry award is likely to be produced in three major areas of life, such as battery research, gene editing technology, and metal organic framework materials, and it is estimated that this year's winners may be 97 years old. "The father of lithium batteries," John B. Goodenough, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

In the early 1970s, Stanley Whittingham used the enormous power of lithium to release its outer electrons when developing the first functional lithium battery.