Nobel prize honors breakthroughs on lithium-ion batteries

Stanley Whittingham, a British-American chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, laughs during the Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Applications (ABAA) conference in Ulm, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Whittingham is one of three scientists who have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an increasingly portable and electronic world. (Courtesy photo by Sebastian Gollnow)