Michael M. Thackeray

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Michael Makepeace Thackeray {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} (born in 1949) is a South African chemist and battery materials researcher. He is mainly known for his work on electrochemically active cathode materials. In the mid-1980s he co-discovered the manganese oxide spinel family of cathodes for lithium ion batteries while working in the lab of John Goodenough at the University of Oxford.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0025-5408(83)90138-1| title = Lithium insertion into manganese spinels| journal = Materials Research Bulletin| volume = 18| issue = 4| page = 461| year = 1983| last1 =Thackeray | first1 = M.| last2 = David | first2 = W.I.F.| last3 = Bruce | first3 = P. | last4 = Goodenough | first4 = J.B.}}. In 1998, while at Argonne National Laboratory, he led a team that first reported the NMC cathode technology.C. S. Johnson, J. T. Vaughey, M. M. Thackeray, T. E. Bofinger, and S. A. Hackney "Layered Lithium-Manganese Oxide Electrodes Derived from Rock-Salt LixMnyOz (x+y=z) Precursors" 194th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Boston, MA, Nov.1-6, (1998){{Cite journal | doi = 10.1039/B702425H| title = Li2MnO3-stabilized LiMO2 (M = Mn, Ni, Co) electrodes for lithium-ion batteries| journal = Journal of Materials Chemistry| volume = 17| page = 3112| year = 2007| last1 =Thackeray | first1 = M.| last2 = Kang | first2 = S.H.| last3 = Johnson | first3 = C. | last4 = Vaughey | first4 = J.| last5 = Benedek | first5 = Roy.| last6 = Hackney | first6 = S.| issue=30 }}. Patent protection around the concept and materials were first issued in 2005 to Argonne National Laboratory to a team with Thackeray, Khalil Amine, Jaekook Kim, and Christopher Johnson. The reported invention is now widely used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.energy.gov/articles/argonne-lab-s-breakthrough-cathode-technology-powers-electric-vehicles-today|title=Argonne Lab's Breakthrough Cathode Technology Powers Electric Vehicles of Today|website=www.energy.gov|language=en|access-date=2011-02-14}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/argonnes-battery-tech-a-government-licensing-success-story/|title=Argonne's Battery Tech: A Government Licensing Success Story|website=www.greentechmedia.com|language=en|access-date=2011-02-25}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.anl.gov/article/argonnes-lithiumion-battery-technology-to-be-commercialized-by-japans-toda-kogyo|title=Argonne's lithium-ion battery technology to be commercialized by Japan's Toda Kogyo|website=www.access.anl.gov/|date=13 March 2008 |language=en|access-date=2008-03-13}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.anl.gov/article/argonnes-lithiumion-battery-technology-to-be-commercialized-by-basf|title=Argonne's lithium-ion battery technology to be commercialized by BASF|website=www.access.anl.gov/|date=3 June 2009 |language=en|access-date=2009-06-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://access.anl.gov/projects/nmc/|title=Argonne's NMC Cathode|website=www.access.anl.gov/|language=en|access-date=2020-03-29}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-01/gm%E2%80%99s-new-battery-chemistry-it%E2%80%99s-already-chevy-volt/?con=gm|title=GM's New Battery Chemistry? It's Already In the Chevy Volt|website=www.popsci.com/|date=7 January 2011 |language=en|access-date=2011-01-11}}