Most people may think that a 94 yr old can’t possibly have new ideas, especially when it comes to technology. But John Bannister Goodenough is poised to change the world – again. Goodenough who is a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin invented the lithium-ion battery with his team back in the 1980’s. Without him, the device that you’re probably using to read this article would be a lot bigger and clunkier.
Now he and his team at the University of Texas at Austin are set to shake up the tech industry with a breakthrough battery that is made of glass, has three times the power capacity of a similarly sized lithium-ion battery, charges in minutes and won’t go up in flames.
This can mean that a future of phones that last days instead of hours and all electric vehicles that drive further and charge faster could come much sooner than we hoped.
If you’d like more technical info about this Goodenough’s new battery tech, check out this article a ExtremeTech.com
Filed in categories: Cables, Batteries and Chargers, News
Tagged: science
The 94 yr old physicist who invented the lithium-ion battery just invented something even better originally appeared on on March 13, 2017 at 11:01 am.
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