How to pronounce “yoshino” in English

Yoshino needed something more lightweight, compact, conductive, and crucially, something that could reversibly accept and release lithium-ions within its structure

And that got Yoshino thinking, what if polyacetylene could work as a battery anode?

But for months, Yoshino struggled.

Later, Yoshino would say, "That was the moment when the lithium-ion battery was born."

It worked safely and reliably, but Yoshino wasn't satisfied.

They reworked the design, swapping out Yoshino's carbon material for graphite that could better intercalate lithium-ions between its layers.

Now, normally plastic is an insulator, but the kind Yoshino was looking at is different.

In 2019, Whittingham, Goodenough and Yoshino finally received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for an invention that in the committee's words "Revolutionized our way of life."

While Goodenough's battery design was gathering dust, 10,000 kilometers away in Japan, a 34-year-old chemist named Akira Yoshino was trying to find a safer battery anode,