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Developers of lithium-ion batteries win Nobel Prize in chemistry

Ted Spiegel | Corbis Documentary | Getty The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to the scientists John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for “the development of lithium-ion batteries.” Used in everything from laptops and smartphones to Elon Musk’s Tesla vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, which are rechargeable, play an incredibly important role… Read More »