Li-ion battery gets the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry.
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I am writing this post using one Li-ion battery and you are reading them with one Li-ion battery in your Mobile or Laptop. Elon Musk drives his Electric Car with another Li-ion battery.
The future of earth depends on Li-ion battery.
Surprisingly, the Li-ion cells were invented a good 40 years back in the 1980.
Nobel prize took 40 years to recognize, what a common man asks every day to his mobile shop, ” What is the back-up period of this phone ?”
He is actually asking what is the capacity of the Li-ion cell inside this gazette.
The inventor John Goodenough is 97 years old today and still works as Professor at UTA, Texas.
He still wears his tie every day as he prepares to go to his University chair at the UT at Austin and says he is grateful he was not forced to retire at age 65.
“So I’ve had an extra 33 years to keep working,”
In US teachers have no retirement age. They can work as long as they are fit.
John Goodenough seems to be fit enough to invent a later generation Battery cell: the Glass Battery.
Only 2 years back in 2016, he developed the glass battery, a battery with glass as electrolyte that is claimed to exceed current lithium-ion batteries in energy density, operating range, and safety.
On this day, I Wish he should continue working beyond 100.
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