Electrochemist brings energy research to LI
Photo credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas | Esther Takeuchi holds a sample of electrode material that could be used in new batteries for applications such as biomedical devices, power grid storage and transportation. (Aug. 1, 2012)
Esther Takeuchi has spent decades inventing better ways to bottle up electricity, saving it for later like summer tomatoes squeezed into a jar.
She is among the world's leading experts on the complex batteries that give life to pacemakers, defibrillators and other medical devices implanted inside patients' bodies. She tinkers with metals that burst into flames if exposed to humidity. And with...
