The object
Yet-Ming Chiang developed high-power lithium-iron-phosphate battery materials and helped translate them into rechargeable-cell products. These physical electrode materials improved the power, safety and durability available to electric-transport and grid-storage batteries, expanding the practical use of lithium-ion hardware beyond small electronics.
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What Yet-Ming did
Developed and commercialized high-power lithium-iron-phosphate battery materials and related battery-manufacturing processes.
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Why it matters
MIT identifies high-power lithium-iron-phosphate batteries among Chiang laboratory discoveries brought to commercialization.
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Living-status check
MIT’s current faculty profile lists Chiang as Kyocera Professor and its Energy Initiative page records his 2024-25 clean-energy activity.