Lithium-ion battery chemistry (intercalation cathodes and anodes)
Química de intercalación para baterías de ion litio (LiCoO2, grafito)
- Date
- 1976-1985 · confidence high
- Place
- Exxon (Whittingham); University of Oxford (Goodenough); Asahi Kasei, Tokyo (Yoshino)
- Credited to
- Stanley Whittingham (TiS2, 1976), John Goodenough (LiCoO2, 1980), Akira Yoshino (carbon anode, 1985)
- People
- 👤 Akira Yoshino1948–👤 M Stanley Whittingham1941–
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Lithium reversibly intercalates into layered oxides and carbons, enabling a rechargeable battery of high voltage and energy without metallic lithium. The basis of portable electronics and the electric vehicle.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019.
What it led to
- Portable electronics
- Electric vehicles
- Renewable energy storage
- Electrode chemistry (LFP, NMC, sodium)
Built on
- Nernst equation1889
- Nernst's electrochemistry
- intercalation chemistry in chalcogenides
Made possible
- Lithium-ion battery1980-1991
- commercial lithium-ion battery (Sony, 1991)