Edited and compressed frfom the New York Times:
John B. Goodenough, Oldest Nobel-Prize Winner, Cr eator of the Lithium-Ion Battery, dies at age 100, Sunday, June 26th… He won the prize in 2019 at age 97. Dr. Goodenough was relatively unknown until he won the prize. In 1980 at the University of Oxford, where he created the battery that is powering smartphones, laptop and tablet computers, lifesaving medical devices, and plug-in vehicles, including Teslas. The powerful, lightweight, rechargeable lithium-ion battery was developed by the efforts of scientists, lab technicians and commercial interests over decades, but Dr. Goodenough’s contribution is regarded as the crucial link in its development, a combination of molecular chemistry, physics and engineering.
In 2019, He shared the $900,000 Nobel Prize award with two others who made major contributions to the battery’s development: M. Stanley Whittingham,
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John Goodenough was one of the great treasures at UT.
I believe the ‘superbattery’ mentioned is the construction using Braga’s glass electrolyte, which permits the anode to be metallic lithium (the direction of electron flow appearing to preclude dendrite formation from metallic lithium).
Keep in mind that Goodenough is responsible not only for intercalated LiCoO2, but for LiMn2O4 and LiFePO4. If anyone had a leg up on a suitable cathode construction, it would either be he or someone known to him…
I still think sodium/sulfur with multiple shields and nanoinsulation, using appropriate NaK for both process heating and cooling, is going to be a major ‘player’ in dedicated batteries for locomotive propulsion. But RPS (among others) thinks a major part of the ‘solution’ involves rebuilt BEV cells and assemblies, and a suitable cathode is apparently the only bar to much better low-temperature-tolerant high-energy-density frequently-reversible chemical storage.
The initial poosting has been repaired. Thanks for your patience, And apokloigies.
Now all that has to be done is to keep them from exploding and setting fire to the surrounding areas.