Lithium-ion battery
Batería de ion-litio
- Date
- 1980-1991 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Oxford, United Kingdom (cathode, 1980); Asahi Kasei, Kawasaki, and Sony, Japan (commercialisation, 1991)
- Credited to
- Stanley Whittingham (Exxon), John Goodenough (Oxford), Akira Yoshino (Asahi Kasei); Sony (1991); Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
- People
- 👤 Akira Yoshino1948–👤 M Stanley Whittingham1941–
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A lightweight rechargeable battery with high energy density, using a cobalt oxide cathode and a carbon anode. It made the mobile phone, the laptop and the electric car possible.
What it led to
- Portable electronics and the smartphone
- The electric vehicle and grid-scale storage for renewables
- The geopolitics of lithium, cobalt and Chinese dominance (CATL, BYD)