Editors’ Choice—Review—John Goodenough’s Impact on Electrochemistry in Oxford’s Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

Abstract

This paper covers the period following the appointment of John Goodenough to the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford University and the development of the electrochemistry group in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory under his leadership. The paper details the studies he initiated into semiconductor electrochemistry and photoelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, fuel-cell development and battery research, and the way in which these studies complemented each other. A brief account of some of the later developments in electrochemical research at Oxford is given, showing how these developments grew out of Goodenough’s earlier ideas and ambitions.