M. Stanley Whittingham

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Michael Stanley Whittingham (born December 22, 1941 in Nottingham , England ) is a British-American chemist (solid-state chemistry, electrochemistry) and Nobel Prize winner.

Life

M. Stanley Whittingham studied chemistry at the University of Oxford (BA 1964, MA 1967, D.Phil. 1968). From 1965 to 1967 he was an instructor in the inorganic chemistry department at Oxford. From 1968 to 1972 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University . From 1972 to 1984 he worked for Exxon Research & Engineering Company, from 1975 to 1978 as head of the Chemical Physics group, 1978 to 1980 as director of the Solid State and Catalytic Science Lab and 1980 to 1984 as manager of the Chemical Engineering Technology Division. From 1984 to 1988 he was director of physical science at Schlumberger . He has been a chemistry professor and director of the Institute for Materials Research at Binghamton University in New York State since 1988 . Whittingham made decisive contributions to the research of lithium batteries and developed new inorganic oxide materials and materials for batteries with high energy storage capacity.

A breakthrough was his use of titanium disulfide as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries in the 1970s, which was able to hold lithium ions in the atomic gaps. He still used metallic lithium for the anode, but it was too reactive for commercial applications (risk of explosion). In 1980, John B. Goodenough replaced the metal sulfide of the cathode with a metal oxide in the next step on the way to the lithium-ion battery and Akira Yoshino took the step towards commercial applications in the mid-1980s in Japan, with Yoshino also using the too reactive metallic lithium Replaced anode with carbonaceous material in which the lithium ions were absorbed.

In 2018 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering . Thomson Reuters has listed him as a favorite for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry since 2015 . In 2019 Whittingham was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

He was the editor of J. Solid State Ionics.

Fonts (selection)

  • Electrical energy storage and intercalation chemistry, Science, Volume 192, 1976, pp. 1126-1127
  • The role of ternary phases in cathode reactions, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Volume 123, 1976, pp. 315-320
  • Chemistry of intercalation compounds: Metal guests in chalcogenide hosts, Progress in Solid State Chemistry, Volume 12, 1978, pp. 41-99
  • with S. Yang, PY Zavalij: Hydrothermal synthesis of lithium iron phosphate cathodes, Electrochemistry Communications, Volume 3, 2001, pp. 505-508
  • Lithium batteries and cathode materials, Chemical Reviews, Volume 104, 2004, pp. 4271-4302
  • History, Evolution, and Future Status of Energy Storage, IEEE Proceedings, Volume 100, 2012, pp. 1518-1534

Web links

  • Homepage at Binghamton University (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates for American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 , official website
  3. ↑ The 2015 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ( Memento from February 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Whittingham, M. Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whittingham, Michael Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham