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Interview with Akira Yoshino: 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize Winner (2019x28)

Exibido em:: Out 18, 2019

We welcome as our guest Akira Yoshino, a co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yoshino greatly contributed to the development of lithium-ion batteries that are used in smartphones, personal computers, electric cars, and even on the International Space Station. He shares with us his struggles developing the batteries as well as his hopes for their future use in solving environmental problems.