John B. Goodenough: The credit for the smartphone that we are running all the time today goes to John B. Goodenough because John discovered the Lithium-ion battery. For this he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2019. Due to John, today we are able to use lithium-ion batteries in smartphones, cars, laptops, tablets etc. In 1980, John B. Goodenough, while working at the University of Oxford, made a major breakthrough by developing a battery with a lithium-cobalt-oxide cathode. He improved upon the design of the battery developed by Dr. Whittingham,…
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