The “Backbone” of All Tech Innovations This Decade

Take a moment and look around your home. I will guess you have at least one smartphone, a laptop computer, and probably an e-reader or two. I’m sure there are remote controls, smoke detectors, clocks and watches, small appliances, flashlights, maybe children’s toys, and your car outside your window. On some level, our daily lives all run on batteries. And a lot of them still use the lithium-ion technology introduced in 1980 by John Goodenough. Just last year, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for it. There have been improvements in size and density, but no revolutionary breakthroughs for the last 40 years… Until now. At the age of 97, John Goodenough continues to work on the next battery technology.