John B. Goodenough

Background

An American physicist and materials scientist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2019).

Contribution

Showed that lithium cobalt oxide cathodes could roughly double a cell's voltage, a breakthrough that made high-energy lithium-ion batteries possible.

Associated inventions

• Lithium-Ion Battery

Collaborators & contemporaries

• M. Stanley Whittingham
• Akira Yoshino

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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