John Goodenough, the father of lithium batteries and winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, recently revealed that he has developed a sodium-glass battery with a storage capacity that is 3 times that of current lithium batteries. times.
Introduced in papers and patents, sodium-glass batteries use glass doped with alkali metals such as sodium or lithium as the electrolyte (during charging and discharging, ions pass through the medium of the anode and cathode), and its storage capacity It is three times more powerful than current lithium batteries, and when used in electric vehicles, it can be fully charged in minutes instead of hours. The new battery also features safety, long life, and low cost, and no longer needs to rely strictly on lithium for development.
John Goodenough was born in Germany on July 25, 1922. He is a professor of mechanical engineering and solid state physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a lithium cobalt oxide, lithium manganate and iron phosphate. The inventor of lithium cathode materials and one of the founders of lithium-ion batteries.
At the age of 90, he is still working on the front line of scientific research, dedicated to developing high-density, high-safety solid-state batteries to solve humankind’s potential energy problems. In a recent interview, he said: "I don't need money, I don't want to do business, I just want to simply solve problems."
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