Moroccan researcher Khalil Amin has received the award «Global Energy» for 2019 for his «contribution to the development of technologies that provide new opportunities in energy development», Free News reported on Thursday. Khalil Amin shared the prize with Danish professor Frede Blaabjerg, who received the award in the category «Alternative Energy». Morocco's Khalil Amin is one of the world's most cited researcher in publications on batteries. Amin who is head of the Technology Development group in the Electrochemical Energy Storage Department within Argonne's Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division in Chicago is «related to the creation of new cathodes and anodes for lithium-ion batteries, the development of liquid-polymer electrolyte systems, as well as lithium-oxygen, lithium-sulfur, sodium-ion batteries», the same source said. He invented cathode NMC, which is now used in domestic electrical engineering and electric vehicles. According to the Argonne National Laboratory, Amin received a PhD in material science from the University of Bordeaux (France) in 1989. He joined the American laboratory in the 1990s after leading several research projects in the research arms of several organizations, including the Japan Storage Battery Company, the Osaka National Research Institute, and Kyoto University, the same source added. The Moroccan researcher received several international awards in the past, including the US Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Japanese Science and Technology Agency Award and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Award.
