Postdoc at Northwestern working on energy technologies. PhD at Cambridge on new battery materials. Solid-state, inorganic, structure and mechanisms.
Jul 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"It would be great if batteries could improve exponentially, à la Moore’s Law. But it’ll never happen. Gordon Moore himself told us so in his seminal 1965 magazine article, in which he predicted that we would be able to double the number of components in a digital..." (1/4)
"integrated circuit every year for the next 10 years (turns out he was a pessimist). He also said that the same sort of performance increase would not happen for devices that needed to store energy.
In digital electronics, all you need to do is detect a voltage—or not—..." (2/4)
