Michael M. Thackeray

Michael Makepeace Thackeray is a chemist and battery researcher who has been working since 1994 at the Argonne National Laboratory. He has made the right because of his contributions to the use of spinel lithium- ion batteries deserves.

Thackeray was educated at the University of Cape Town in South Africa for chemists. Several times he worked for the South African research organization CSIR: 1973-1977 as a researcher at the National Physics Laboratory in Pretoria, from 1983 to 1987 as a group leader in the ceramics department, from 1988 to 1994 in a senior position in battery research. 1981-82, he worked at John Goodenough as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford; in 1985 he was back as a scientific guest in Oxford.

Since 1994 he works in the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, USA. He heads a group for electrochemical energy storage.

Work and honors

Thackeray has published over 180 works, which are also often cited. He has received more than 25 patents. He has received many awards, including a Research Award of the Battery Division of the Electrochemical Society.

Among the discovered and studied by Thackeray materials include lithium manganese oxides with spinel structure. A variant of this type of material is, for example, used on the positive-pole ( cathode during discharge ) the battery in the Opel Ampera.

Hydro-Québec is working on the use of a Lithiumtitanatspinells as an anode material that was patented by Thackeray in 1994.

Sources and links

• Biography of Michael M. Thackeray, PDF (English, called on 17 May 2012)
• Side of the Argonne employee, Michael Thackeray (English, called on 17 May 2012)
• Communication of Hydro-Québec and Technifin (online) (English, called on 17 May 2012)

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