This battery was stable, lightweight, and as powerful as Goodenough's.
Goodenough doubled the lithium battery's potential, creating the
right conditions for a vastly more powerful and useful battery.
The committee hadn't yet reached Goodenough, Hansson said,
who at 97 years old becomes the oldest living Nobel laureate.
John B. Goodenough was born in Germany in 1922
and is currently at the University of Texas in the US.
Goodenough had moved to Oxford University as a professor of inorganic chemistry
and he set to work on improving Whittingham's battery.
Goodenough's major insight was that batteries did
not have to be manufactured in their charged state, as had been done previously.
Whittingham developed the first functional lithium-ion battery in 1976, Goodenough brought in a major improvement in 1980,
while Yoshino made the first practical-use lithium-ion battery in 1985.
In August 2014, Gene Goodenough, an American national whom Zinta married in February 2016,
had sent his statement to the police through email in connection with the case.
Goodenough, born in 1922 in Germany's Jena, predicted that the cathode would
have even greater potential if it was made using a metal oxide instead of a metal sulphide.
An addition of aluminium, and a change of electrolyte, made it safer,
but the big breakthrough was made by Goodenough who changed the cathode to a metal oxide instead of metal sulphide(titanium disulphide)
that Whittingham had been using.