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Nothing is currently more essential in enabling our mobile world than lithium-ion batteries. If you can carry it around and it requires a source of electricity, a fair bet is it contains at least one lithium-ion battery. These creations of human ingenuity—requiring a detailed understanding of how materials interact at the atomic scale—power the ubiquitous smart devices that allow us to communicate with each other wherever we are in the world. Lithium-ion batteries are irreplaceable partners living in our pockets, handbags, and backpacks, until the point when we need to charge them so that they can continue their essential work—converting a reversible chemical process into electrical energy.
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Norton, M.G. (2023). The Future of Mobility. In: A Modern History of Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23990-8_6
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