History of lithium battery development

History of lithium battery development
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was given to the field of lithium batteries. The official website of the Nobel Prize stated that "they (the winners) created a rechargeable world." Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in mobile phones, laptop computers, electric vehicles and other fields, all over every corner of our lives, and the development history of lithium batteries can be traced back to the 1970s.
In 1970, American chemist Whittingham used lithium metal to make the first lithium battery. However, the lithium battery at this time had higher requirements on the working environment and was larger in size, so it could only be used at room temperature.
In 1980, based on Whittingham's research, American chemist Goodenough found that lithium cobalt oxide could be used as a cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. This discovery has doubled the potential of lithium-ion batteries, and at the same time reduced the size a lot, and the commercial use of lithium batteries is one step closer.
In 1981, Japanese scientist Yoshino Akira began research on lithium batteries, and in the late 1880s, he developed a safer commercially available lithium-ion battery using petroleum coke and Goodenough's lithium cobalt oxide.
In 1991, a Chinese company officially put lithium-ion batteries into the market. In this year, lithium-ion batteries, which had been stuck in the laboratory stage, officially opened the commercial era, and lithium-ion batteries revolutionized the appearance of consumer electronics.
Lithium batteries have fundamentally improved the way we store and use energy, not only for our daily lives, but also for storing solar and wind energy, enabling a world free of fossil fuels. .The above three scientists also jointly won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 for lithium batteries.