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Researchers have a unique opportunity to work together to make a difference. Energy storage is critical in enabling the electric economy. Lithium batteries have played the key role to date, but electrochemistry is also essential to the success of a clean hydrogen economy and to the attainment of a cleaner mining industry, one that would be based on electro-reduction rather than carbothermal processes.

At this seminar, Professor M. Stanley Whittingham, one of three receipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will discuss a little history of battery storage, the present status of storage, and the status for lithium batteries in particular, and the challenges facing researchers in inventing the next generation.

Professor Whittingham will be joined by co-recipients professors John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino, who will provide additional commentary.

In awarding the Nobel Prize, the Nobel committee said of professors Goodenough, Yoshino, and Whittingham, “They have laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil fuel-free society, and are of the greatest benefit to humankind.” 

Host: Jie Xiao | Administrative support: Katelyn Harvey | Battery500 Director: Jun Liu