STOCKHOLM — If you’re reading this on a cellphone or laptop computer, you might thank the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on lithium-ion batteries. The success and failure of so many new technologies depends on the batteries,” said Alexej Jerschow, a chemist at New York University, whose research focuses on the lithium-ion battery. …
STOCKHOLM — The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes : 5:45 p.m. Nobel chemistry prize winner M. Stanley Whittingham says he hopes the award for work on lithium-ion batteries will “push the field further and faster.” The 77-year-old British-American chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton is one of three scientists who won this …
