Inventor of lithium-ion battery dies at 100

On June 27 (Vietnam time), The New York Times reported that Dr. John Goodenough, widely credited with creating the lithium-ion battery, passed away at the age of 100.

Dr. John Goodenough.

Although he is not often mentioned in the media, Dr. John Goodenough has made great contributions to the popularization of smartphones, laptops, and electric cars/motorbikes as they are today. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 and the US National Medal of Science in 2011, along with many other prestigious awards.

Many researchers had explored lithium-based battery technology before, such as Stanley Whittingham’s discovery of combining lithium with titanium disulfide. However, it was Dr. John Goodenough who took the lithium battery to the next level in 1980 while he was at Oxford University. Goodenough was the one who came up with the idea of using multiple layers of lithium and cobalt oxide as the cathode, which allowed for higher voltages and significantly improved safety. The new design also allowed for much higher battery capacity than before.

While working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1950s and 1960s, he was also a pioneer in the research behind RAM, the random access memory found in every modern electronic product.

Throughout his career, Dr. John Goodenough has regularly shared his patents with his colleagues. At the age of 90, he has not stopped researching. Just a few years ago, he was in the process of researching next-generation battery technology with significantly improved performance.

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