the nobel prize for chemistry to a tame of 3 scientists john goodenough stanley wishing him and akira your she. developed lithium ion batteries the committee says the battery is a lightweight and can be used in devices from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles. well joining me now to dissect all of that for the unscientific of us like me is derrick williams from our scientific desk derek tell us a bit more about these batteries well the trees are a fairly simple idea they've been they've been around in one form or another since the 1900 centuries you have a positive everybody knows to more or less how they work you have a positive pole and you have a negative pole and you connect those 2 with the bridge and electrons flow from the positive pole to the negative old voila you have electricity now the thing about lithium what special about lithium is that it's a particular material that is both able to give up an electron very easily and it's happy to accept one back and so it's kind of the perfect material to use in a battery that where you want to charge and recharge over and over

prize with britain's m stanley women who developed an early patents for the batteries and japan's akira your shino whose work made them safer more efficient and less expensive well helen payne is the deputy chief executive of the royal society of chemistry and she says without the lithium battery lots of other technologies wouldn't be possible. i think the lithium battery is such a phenomenal thing for us in today's society but obviously as we move into an era where we need to look at more fossil fuel free technology the increase in mobile technology the increase in wireless technology the lithium batteries are all around us and i think it's because of the widespread use and also looking forward to electric cars and all the other things that we're going to need to use the trees for in the future i think is such a fantastic time for these 3 phenomenal scientists we recognize every time you pick up your mobile phone every time you want to make a phone call or in a cage with any form of wireless technology in a fight anything technology driven when you are using some form of lithium ion battery