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https://www.designnews.com/battery-...4f219cc56621ee22729063140d5484f945258d810421d
Whittingham’s work at Exxon moved rapidly. He joined the company in September of 1972, and within a few weeks began working on a concept he had studied at Stanford. The concept involved inserting ions into the atomic lattice of certain metals, and then extracting those ions. It was called intercalation (pronounced “in-TURK-a-lay-shun”). “I said, ‘Hey, we can store energy here,” he recalled in the book, Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car. “And that’s when we got into electrochemical studies, and then batteries.”
https://www.designnews.com/battery-...4f219cc56621ee22729063140d5484f945258d810421d
Whittingham’s work at Exxon moved rapidly. He joined the company in September of 1972, and within a few weeks began working on a concept he had studied at Stanford. The concept involved inserting ions into the atomic lattice of certain metals, and then extracting those ions. It was called intercalation (pronounced “in-TURK-a-lay-shun”). “I said, ‘Hey, we can store energy here,” he recalled in the book, Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car. “And that’s when we got into electrochemical studies, and then batteries.”
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