John Goodenough, co-creator of lithium-ion battery, dies at 100

John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers, and pacemakers to electric cars, has died at 100, the University of Texas announced Monday.. Goodenough died Sunday at an assisted living facility in Austin, the university announced..

Goodenough was the oldest person to receive a Nobel Prize when he shared the award with British-born American scientist M..

Lithium-ion batteries were the first truly portable and rechargeable batteries, and they took more than a decade to develop. Whittingham said in 2019 that he had no inkling that his work decades ago would have such a profound impact on the world...

Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino each had unique breakthroughs that laid the foundation for developing a commercial rechargeable battery and the three shared the $900,000 Nobel Prize...

By 1980, Goodenough had built on Whittinghams work and doubled the batterys capacity to four volts by using cobalt oxide in the cathode, one of the two electrodes that make up the ends of a battery...

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