Chemistry Nobel prize ‘finally’ goes to developers of lithium-ion batteries
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Katrina Krämer2019-10-09T13:43:00
John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino rewarded for revolutionising the storage of energy and helping to usher in the microelectronics age
The 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry has gone to the three scientists behind a discovery without which neither mobile phones nor electric vehicles might ever have become reality: lithium-ion batteries.