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Lithium-Ion Battery
Also Known As Li-ion Battery
Energy Storage
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A rechargeable battery that stores energy by shuttling lithium ions between electrodes, first commercialized by Sony in 1991 on foundations laid by Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it. Lithium-ion cells power phones, laptops and electric vehicles and, in grid-scale banks, have become the fastest-growing form of electricity storage.
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Technology Type Invented Year1991 is the first commercial cell from Sony; the underlying chemistry was developed across the 1970s and 1980s. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Every electrochemical cell descends from the voltaic pile of 1800; the lithium-ion battery is its most consequential modern descendant.
Developed By
Goodenough shared the underlying Nobel-winning research with M. Stanley Whittingham (who demonstrated the first working lithium rechargeable cell in the 1970s) and Akira Yoshino (who built the first commercially viable lithium-ion cell in 1985); Goodenough's own specific, well documented contribution is the lithium cobalt oxide cathode.
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
United States Energy Information Administration Official Site
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Most of the BESS power capacity that was operational in 2022 was installed after 2014, and about 4,807 MW was installed in 2022 alone.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Site
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By attaching a wire to the end of the pile, electricity could be supplied steadily.
Hornsdale Power Reserve Official Site
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The first 100 MW/129 MWh was completed in November 2017.
Wikipedia: John Goodenough
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Goodenough is credited with significant research essential to the development of commercial lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.
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