Akira Yoshino
30 January 1948 – present
Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist who spent his career at the Asahi Kasei Corporation and developed the first safe, commercially viable prototype of the lithium-ion rechargeable battery in 1985. His cell paired a lithium cobalt oxide cathode with a carbon-based anode, a configuration that underpins batteries used in portable electronics and electric vehicles. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John B. Goodenough and M. Stanley Whittingham.
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Life events
Completed a bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Engineering.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBegan the industrial research career he pursued for decades.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCombined a lithium cobalt oxide cathode with a carbonaceous anode to make a safe rechargeable cell.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCells based on his design were first sold for consumer electronics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShared with other pioneers of lithium-ion battery technology.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShared with John B. Goodenough and M. Stanley Whittingham for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
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