One of the earliest examples of research into lithium-ion batteries is a CuF 2/Li battery developed by in 1965. The breakthrough that produced the earliest form of the modern Li-ion battery was made by British chemist in 1974, who first used (TiS 2) as a cathode material, which has a layered structure that can without significant changes to its . tried to commercialize this battery in the late 1970s, but found the synthesis ex.
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