the royal Swedish academy of sciences has awarded in chemistry this year’s Nobel prize lithium-ion batteries developers. Award are John Goodenough , Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino .

Lithium-ion, or li-ion batteries are lightweight, rechargeable and powerful batteries, which are now used as phones and computers like electronic vehicles.

These batteries is the arrival on the market in 1991, created the basis for the wireless, fossil fuel independent society, and mankind has benefited from them greatly, the Nobel jury thank.

the British Stanley Whittingham began the 1970s oil crisis, research how fossil fuels are expendable to the new changing energy sources. Lithium-ion batteries capable of storing a large amount of solar or wind energy.

the Whittingham ended up in superconductors investigation of lithium battery cathode, in which the titanium disulfide is capable of on a molecular level to deposit lithium ions. The invention, however, was the battery of the use of too much explosive.

the American John Goodenough came to the conclusion that the cathode potential would be even greater if it made the metal oxide of the metal sulphides instead. He said the best cobalt oxide, which proved to be the breakthrough of powerful batteries to develop.

Japanese Akira Yoshino made these findings the first commercially operated application in 1985. Reactive lithium, instead she used anodissa carbon-based material. The result was a lightweight and durable battery that can be recharged hundreds of times.

All the awards criteria are available on the Nobel foundation web page (go to another service) Swedish and English.

the beam the way the trio is the oldest Nobel winner: Goodenough’s 97-year-old.

Grabs four more Nobel prize

the Nobel week started Monday cell research which granted the medical award. The winners are the american Gregg Semenza and William Kaelin and the british Peter Ratcliffe , who have studied how cells detect available the vital amount of oxygen and react to it.

on Tuesday, was published in physics prize. It was the origin of the universe and exoplanets, scientists, the canadian-american James Peebles and swiss Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz .

on Thursday among the winners is associated with one of the two authors, and the week culminated on Friday in Oslo, the disclosure of a peace prize. Next Monday we still have the economics prize.

the literary prizes awarded this year two, because last year the prize was postponed to the Swedish academy in the unfolding of the scandal.

the Awards are worth nine million Swedish crowns, i.e. over eur 830 000. The money came from a foundation from whom the dynamite invented by the rich to the chemist-engineer Alfred Nobel established in his will. Economics award of funding from the Swedish central bank.

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