Akira Yoshino

Background

A Japanese chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2019).

Contribution

Built the first safe, commercially viable lithium-ion battery (mid-1980s) by pairing a carbon anode with Goodenough's cathode, enabling portable electronics.

Associated inventions

• Lithium-Ion Battery

Collaborators & contemporaries

• M. Stanley Whittingham
• John B. Goodenough

Sources & further reading

Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 — Goodenough, Whittingham & Yoshino (lithium-ion)The Nobel Prize · Professional body

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