About Rachid Yazami Rachid Yazami is a graduate from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1978, where he took a Ph. D. degree in 1985. His research project included a study of graphite intercalation compounds for lithium battery application. The same year he joined le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a research associate. He eventually was promoted a Research Director (Professor)in 1998. In 1980 Dr. Yazami discovered the reversible intercalation of lithium into graphite in an electrochemical cell using a polymer electrolyte. Later this discovery led to the lithium-graphite anode nowdays used in commercial lithium ion batteries an over 7B$/year business. Dr. Yazami also worked on other forms of graphite materials for cathode application in lithium batteries, including graphite oxide and graphite fluoride. Since 2000 Dr. Yazami served as a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, Pasadena) where he conducted a cooperative research on electrode materials including nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes, nano-silicon and nano-germanium anodes. His research on cathode materials included thermodynamics of phase transitions in lithiated transition metal oxides and phosphates. Dr. Yazami is the co-author involved in over 200 published papers and the co-inventor of over 30 patents related to lithium primary and rechargeable batteries and on new battery chemistry based on fluoride ion. He is the co-founder of CFX Battery, Inc. a Caltech-CNRS start up in Azusa, California.