They are omnipresent and essential to navigating modern life. Small, light, and rechargeable, lithium ion batteries have revolutionised our world in less than three decades.
On Oct 9, John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, the inventors of a technology taken for granted by most, got the most prestigious chemistry nod of all: a Nobel Prize.
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