The carbonaceous anode was the final important piece of the jigsaw for the first commercialized rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Its original inventor recounts how the search for a research subject led to the breakthrough.
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Yoshino, A. From polyacetylene to carbonaceous anodes. Nat Energy 6, 449 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00801-0
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