Bruno Scrosati studied chemistry at La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, before undertaking research training in electrochemistry with Prof. Filippo Accascina and winning research fellowships at SINTEF – NTNU (Stiftelsen for Industriell og TEknisk Forskning – Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway, and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA (1964–1966).
In the 1970s, when research on rechargeable lithium batteries began, Bruno Scrosati, already affiliated with the Department of Chemistry of La Sapienza University of Rome, began to distinguish himself for his contributions in this area. His most outstanding achievement was the practical demonstration that, in a rechargeable non-aqueous battery system, the unstable and potentially dangerous lithium-metal negative electrode could be replaced by an insertion-type negative electrode active material1, thus inventing the first lithium-ion cell prototype, which was named a ‘rocking chair cell’, confirming Michel Armand’s intuition2.
