Father of Lithium Batteries developed a new type of battery with three times the capacity of lithium batteries.

"Father of Lithium Batteries" developed a new type of battery with three times the capacity of lithium batteries.

John Goodenough, the father of lithium batteries and winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, recently revealed that a sodium-glass battery has been developed, which has three times the storage capacity of current lithium batteries.

"Father of Lithium Batteries" developed a new type of battery with three times the capacity of lithium batteries.

　　According to the paper and patent, the sodium-glass battery uses glass doped with alkali metals such as sodium or lithium as the electrolyte (the medium through which ions pass through the anode and cathode during charging and discharging), and its storage capacity is three times that of current lithium batteries. Moreover, after being used to configure an electric vehicle, it can be fully charged in minutes, and no longer need to be counted in hours. New batteries also have the characteristics of safety, long life, and low cost, and no longer need to rely strictly on lithium for development.

John Goodenough was born in Germany on July 25, 1922. He is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, a solid-state physicist, and the inventor of lithium cobalt oxide, lithium manganate and lithium iron phosphate cathode materials. One of the founders of lithium-ion batteries.

In his nineties, he is still struggling in the front line of scientific research, dedicated to the research and development of high-density, high-safety solid-state batteries to solve human potential energy problems. In an interview recently, he said: "I don't need money, I don't want to do business, I just want to simply solve the problem."