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Oldest Nobel laureate reveals hopes for his discoveries

Image: Niklas Elmehed, Nobel Media

Former Oxford scientist John Goodenough hopes lithium-ion batteries will be used for “good over evil”

One of the three winners of this year’s Nobel prize for chemistry has said that he hopes the lithium-ion battery he helped to develop will be used for “good and not for evil” as the world prepares for a greener future based on renewable energy.

John Goodenough, a 97-year-old professor, was head of the University of Oxford’s Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in the 1970s and 1980s.

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