An American materials scientist and solid-state physicist who identified the lithium cobalt oxide cathode that made the modern rechargeable lithium-ion battery commercially practical, roughly doubling its energy density over earlier cathode materials. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries, receiving it at age 97, the oldest Nobel laureate in history at the time. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionIdentified the lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) cathode that doubled the capacity of lithium-ion batteries and made the commercial rechargeable cell practical; shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. 1 Connections
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John B. Goodenough research group reported sodium ion cathode materials (NaFe2(PO4)(SO4)2) at the University of Texas at Austin.
Technologies Developed
Goodenough shared the underlying Nobel-winning research with M. Stanley Whittingham (who demonstrated the first working lithium rechargeable cell in the 1970s) and Akira Yoshino (who built the first commercially viable lithium-ion cell in 1985); Goodenough's own specific, well documented contribution is the lithium cobalt oxide cathode.
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John Bannister Goodenough (July 25, 1922 - June 25, 2023)
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by using LixCoO2 as a lightweight, high energy density cathode material, he could double the capacity of lithium-ion batteries
Technologies Developed: Lithium-Ion Battery, John Goodenough, University of Oxford section
Goodenough is credited with significant research essential to the development of commercial lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.
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