What Are Nickel-Metal-Hydride Batteries?
Stanford Ovshinsky of Energy Conversion Devices invented the science that resulted in the NiMH battery, while Dr. Masahiko Oshitani from Yuasa Company is credited with developing positive electrodes that appeared in the first consumer NiMH batteries. The company also is credited with creating the first high-energy paste electrode technology. It was the connection between high-energy electrode and high-energy hydride alloys for the negative electrode (found by Philips Laboratories and French CNRS labs) that led to the implementation of today’s environmentally friendly NiMH battery.
