Michael M. Thackeray

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Michael Makepeace Thackeray is a chemist and battery materials researcher. He is known for his work on electrochemically active materials. His early work included the co-discovery of manganese spinel oxides for lithium ion batteries while working with John Goodenough at the University of Oxford. In 2005 while at Argonne National Laboratory he led a team that included Khalil Amine, Jaekook Kim, and Christopher Johnson that reported the invention of NMC cathode technology, now widely used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Career[]

Thackeray obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. After University, he worked for the South African research organization CSIR from 1973 to 1977 as a researcher in the National Physical Research Laboratory in Pretoria. From 1981-82, as well as in 1985, he worked with John Goodenough at the University of Oxford. Thackeray returned to CSIR in 1983 as Group Leader of the Ceramics Division and in 1988 was named as a Research Manager in the Battery Technology Unit. In 1994, Thackeray moved to the Chemical Technology Division at Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, where he was named Group Leader of the Battery Materials Group within the Electrochemical Energy Storage Department. He was the founding director of the Center for Electrochemical Energy Science (CEES), a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, where he oversaw research to understand lithium-air storage chemistry, polymerized cathode coatings, and cathode surface stability. He retired in 2019.

Thackeray has more than 180 publications, and he holds more than 25 patents.

References[]

  1. ^ "Argonne Lab's Breakthrough Cathode Technology Powers Electric Vehicles of Today". www.energy.gov. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
  2. ^ "Argonne's Battery Tech: A Government Licensing Success Story". www.greentechmedia.com. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
  3. ^ "Argonne's lithium-ion battery technology to be commercialized by Japan's Toda Kogyo". www.access.anl.gov/. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  4. ^ "Argonne's lithium-ion battery technology to be commercialized by BASF". www.access.anl.gov/. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
  5. ^ "Argonne's NMC Cathode". www.access.anl.gov/. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  6. ^ "GM's New Battery Chemistry? It's Already In the Chevy Volt". www.popsci.com/. Retrieved 2011-01-11.

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