The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Hugh D. Burrows
,
Richard M. Hartshorn
and
Ron D. Weir
Pure and Applied Chemistry warmly congratulates John B. Goodenough (University of Texas at Austin, USA), M. Stanley Whittingham (Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA) and Akira Yoshino (Asahi Kasei Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, and Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan) on the award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The citation from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences states that the award is “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”. Lithium ion batteries are versatile, light weight, rechargeable power storage devices, and are found in applications as diverse as laptop computers, tablets, mobile phones and electric vehicles, in addition to contributing to storage of renewable energy from solar, wind power and other sources. Current systems rely on a metal oxide cathode, with intercalated lithium ions diffusing from a negative electrode through an appropriate electrolyte to the positive electrode during discharge. Professor Goodenough published the highly relevant article “Solid electrolytes” in Pure and Applied Chemistry in 1995 [1], based on a presentation at the thirteenth IUPAC Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics, held in Clermont-Ferrand, France 17–22 July 1994. This is available with free access at https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199567060931.
Given the subject area of this Nobel Prize, it is timely that we are able to congratulate the awardees in this issue of the Journal devoted to papers from the 13th Conference on Solid State Chemistry.
Reference
[1] J. B. Goodenough. Pure Appl. Chem.67, 931 (1995).10.1351/pac199567060931Search in Google Scholar
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this issue
- Editorial
- The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Preface
- 13th Conference on Solid State Chemistry (SSC-2018)
- Conference papers
- Speciation and siting of divalent transition metal ions in silicon-rich zeolites. An FTIR study
- TiO2 microrods with stacked 3D nanovoids for photoelectrochemical water splitting
- High-temperature Raman spectroscopy
- 1.5 μm photoluminescence and upconversion photoluminescence in GeGaAsS:Er chalcogenide glass
- Investigation of the oxidation process in GeTe-based phase change alloy using Ge K-edge XANES spectroscopy
- Chalcogenide van der Waals superlattices: a case example of interfacial phase-change memory
- 2D GeSe2 amorphous monolayer
- Bonding character and ionic conduction in solid electrolytes
- Ionic transport and atomic structure of AgI-HgS-GeS2 glasses
- Kinetics of silver photodiffusion into amorphous S-rich germanium sulphide – neutron and optical reflectivity
- Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: “First Principles” analysis and simulations of electrical response in the classical range of frequencies below 1 THz and the resulting new role of Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy in electrical characterisation within Condensed Matter Physics
- High pressure impacts on meteorites
- IUPAC Technical Reports
- An inter-comparison of isotopic composition of neon via chemical assays and thermal analyses (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Critically evaluated propagation rate coefficients for radical polymerizations: acrylates and vinyl acetate in bulk (IUPAC Technical Report)
- IUPAC Recommendations
- Definition of the chalcogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this issue
- Editorial
- The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Preface
- 13th Conference on Solid State Chemistry (SSC-2018)
- Conference papers
- Speciation and siting of divalent transition metal ions in silicon-rich zeolites. An FTIR study
- TiO2 microrods with stacked 3D nanovoids for photoelectrochemical water splitting
- High-temperature Raman spectroscopy
- 1.5 μm photoluminescence and upconversion photoluminescence in GeGaAsS:Er chalcogenide glass
- Investigation of the oxidation process in GeTe-based phase change alloy using Ge K-edge XANES spectroscopy
- Chalcogenide van der Waals superlattices: a case example of interfacial phase-change memory
- 2D GeSe2 amorphous monolayer
- Bonding character and ionic conduction in solid electrolytes
- Ionic transport and atomic structure of AgI-HgS-GeS2 glasses
- Kinetics of silver photodiffusion into amorphous S-rich germanium sulphide – neutron and optical reflectivity
- Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: “First Principles” analysis and simulations of electrical response in the classical range of frequencies below 1 THz and the resulting new role of Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy in electrical characterisation within Condensed Matter Physics
- High pressure impacts on meteorites
- IUPAC Technical Reports
- An inter-comparison of isotopic composition of neon via chemical assays and thermal analyses (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Critically evaluated propagation rate coefficients for radical polymerizations: acrylates and vinyl acetate in bulk (IUPAC Technical Report)
- IUPAC Recommendations
- Definition of the chalcogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)
