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Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰?, Yoshino Akira; Suita, 30 gennaio 1948) è un chimico giapponese. È membro della Asahi Kasei Corporation e professore all'Università Meijo di Nagoya.
Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰, Yoshino Akira, born 30 January 1948) is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery, [1] which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers.
Akira Yoshino. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019. Born: 30 January 1948, Suita, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Asahi Kasei Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. Prize motivation: “for the development of lithium-ion batteries” Prize share: 1/3. Life. Akira Yoshino was born in Suita, Japan.
My major was quantum organic chemistry. At the time, the Department of Petrochemistry was a very prestigious one at Kyoto University. The faculty included Professor Kenichi Fukui, who would go on to receive the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- What Motivated You to Take Up Chemistry?
- And How Did You Come to Work on Lithium-Ion Batteries?
- How Did Your Research Evolve Following This Breakthrough?
- How Did You Learn About The Importance of Miniaturization?
- What Has Been The Impact of Lithium-Ion Batteries?
- As The Holder of Multiple Patents, What Are Your Views on The Patent System?
- How Do You Think The Intellectual Property System Needs to improve?
- Did The Patent System Help You to Win The 2019 Nobel Prize For Chemistry?
- What Message Do You Have For Young Scientists?
I have always been interested in the natural world. And when I was in elementary school one of my teachers suggested that I read The Chemical History of a Candleby Michael Faraday. And that stirred up a lot of questions for me. I hadn’t been interested in chemistry until then. That’s how it all started. I then went on to study quantum organic chemi...
In the early 1970s, I joined the Exploratory Research Team at Asahi Kasei Corporation to explore new general-purpose materials. The projects I worked on initially didn’t work out, so I was looking for a new research focus. At the time, there was great interest in polyacetylene, a fascinating electro-conductive polymer that had been predicted by Dr....
All went well for a while. The prototype was one-third lighter than a standard nickel-cadmium battery, which was good, but we only achieved a slight weight reduction and were unable to reduce the size of the battery. This put the whole venture into question because miniaturization was a priority for the electronics industry. The problem was the sma...
As we were not battery specialists at Asahi Kasei, in-house discussions about what industry needed led nowhere. And of course, you can’t just go to a battery manufacturer and expect them to share their confidential early stage research with you. But I met a former classmate of Asahi Kasei’s executive officer who was a battery company executive and ...
Lithium-ion batteries have made today’s mobile IT society a reality. And in the future, they will play a central role in building a sustainable society. A rechargeable battery with the ability to store electricity is a key device for solving environmental problems. This became more widely recognized around 2010, when electric vehicles (EVs) came on...
The fundamental spirit of patent law is to encourage technological development for the benefit of all. In return for acquiring exclusive patent rights, you reveal [disclose] a new technology to the world, and thereby support its broad dissemination. That is what happened with lithium-ion batteries. Asahi Kasei was good at developing battery technol...
In today’s globalized world, it has become difficult to exercise exclusive patent rights on patents. Even if you tell people not to imitate, they do! Moreover, patent rights are time limited so it is very difficult to take advantage of their economic value through licensing alone. I think it is important to think about other ways to get a payback o...
Researchers from industry differ from academic researchers in the way they announce their results. Academic researchers publish their work, whereas the work of industrial researchers is embedded in patent literature, which is hard to understand and, until recently, was not highly considered in academic circles. However, the Nobel Committee’s citati...
The time frame for taking on new challenges is limited to a certain age; around 35. That’s when successive generations of Nobel Prize winners started their research. I started basic research on lithium-ion batteries at 33. At that age, you understand the workings of a company and of society and have the confidence and authority to start a new ventu...
Akira Yoshino delivered his Nobel Lecture on Sunday 8 December 2019, at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Olof Ramström, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.
Yoshino, who was at the Asahi Kasei Corporation in Japan, was the first to eliminate metallic lithium from the battery entirely. In 1981, he began experimenting with new electroconductive material polyacetylene, discovered by 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Hideki Shirakawa.
