Pakistan PM Imran Khan lauds US physicist; here's why

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Pakistan PM Imran Khan lauds US physicist; heres why

Islamabad - Khan's tweet was shared over 2,500 times and received over 12,000 likes.

By Web Report

Published: Mon 31 Dec 2018, 12:06 PM

Last updated: Mon 31 Dec 2018, 2:19 PM

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan took to Twitter to praise the services of 94-year-old John Bannister Goodenough, a German-born American professor and solid-state physicist.
Khan shared a report from February 2017 about Goodenough's development of the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer and faster-charging. Khan wrote on Twitter: 'These are special people whose existence has a purpose beyond the self'.
Goodenough is a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery. Goodenough and his team of engineers developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries for handheld mobile devices, electric cars and stationary energy storage.
Khan's tweet was shared over 2,500 times and received over 12,000 likes. Goodenough is widely credited for the identification and development of the Li-ion rechargeable battery and for developing the Goodenough-Kanamori rules for determining the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials.

These are special people whose existence has a purpose beyond the self https://t.co/glLj1p2NGA
- Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) December 30, 2018

Goodenough's breakthrough, completed with Cockrell School senior research fellow Maria Helena Braga, is a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible and has a long cycle life (battery life) with a high volumetric energy density and fast rates of charge and discharge.

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