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From the BBC, October 9:
Professor Goodenough has some interesting ideas for the evolution of his baby that he's currently working on, back with that if we can find it under the dust in the link-vault.Three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries.John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the prize for their work on these rechargeable devices, which are used for portable electronics.
At the age of 97, Prof Goodenough is the oldest ever Nobel laureate.
Professor of chemistry Olof Ramström said lithium-ion batteries had "enabled the mobile world".
The trio will share the prize money of nine million kronor (£738,000).
The lithium-ion battery is a lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery that is used in everything from mobile phones to laptops to electric cars.
The Nobel Committee said: "Lithium-ion batteries are used globally to power the portable electronics that we use to communicate, work, study, listen to music and search for knowledge."
Committee member Sara Snogerup Linse, from Lund University, said: "We have gained access to a technical revolution. The laureates developed lightweight batteries of high enough [electrical] potential to be useful in many applications....MUCH MORE
UPDATE: The Guy Who Just Won The Nobel for the Lithium-ion Battery Has An Idea For the Next Generation of Batteries
