On October 2019, 10, Dr. Akira Yoshino, Honorary Fellow of Asahi Kasei, will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Lithium-ion secondary batteries * produced by Dr. Yoshino are now indispensable to our lives, including smartphones and personal computers.In the return of that falcon, the key player in the shadow is the lithium-ion secondary battery.
To Professor Akira Yoshino, the creator of this great invention from Japan, in October 2011, in the university journal, "Innovation was caused by one's own hands, and it is indispensable for the background, future prospects, inventions and discoveries. What you don't have. "
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It comes suddenly
Looking back on my life so far, it's a bit exaggerated, but wasn't there something that suddenly disappeared around me?For your generation, it might be a light bulb.And while this may be offensive to automakers, it may be gasoline cars that will follow a similar fate in the near future.
It is said that Edison's invention opened the curtain on a modern industrialized society, but these two are symbolic as they have been used since that time * 1.There are other similar ones, and the ones that have disappeared recently are records (gramophones), film photographs (silver lead photographs), and NiCd batteries * 2, which are miso in the foreground.
When it runs out, it comes suddenly.For example, film photography.People from a major film maker said this.Even if a digital camera comes out, it does not mean that the film camera suddenly stopped selling.And I thought that film cameras wouldn't go away forever because they have many advantages such as price and beauty of images.
However, as soon as the sha-mail was sent, sales dropped sharply at a pace of what percentage a year.Many people now have no petrol cars soon
You may not expect it to be.But not too far away, the day when the gasoline engine suddenly disappears may not come.
* 2: Nickel-cadmium storage battery: Water-based secondary battery
