Thanks to This New Tech, No More Battery Fires or Explosions
These last days we saw much news about overheating hover-boards. Some of them even hurt their owners seriously or burned their houses. Airlines banned them, some retailers stop selling them.
These last days we saw much news about overheating hover-boards. Some of them even hurt their owners seriously or burned their houses. Airlines banned them, some retailers stop selling them. Not only these hoverboards, a couple of days we made a news about a Tesla, which got overheat during the charge in a supercharge station and almost melted because of the fire.
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So avoiding this accident and extend the life of the batteries, the researchers from Stanford University created an elastic film that. The film contains spiky nickel particles that surround the battery. When the battery starts to overheat, it begins to expand. When this expand happens, the conductive metal particles begin to move away from each other, and this shuts down the battery, and it starts to cool down. When the cooling down happens enough, the nickel particles touch each other and battery starts working again. This shutting off also extend the life if the battery If this technology starts the used by battery producers, we can see a less deadly accident that cause by batteries. This technology will make people trust the devices which use batteries.
Original Article: news.stanford.edu
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Helena Marsh
Helena Marsh is the Editor-in-Chief at TrendinTech, where she leads editorial strategy and oversees coverage across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise technology. With more than a decade in technology journalism on both sides of the Atlantic, she previously served as a senior editor at Wired UK and covered the technology sector for The Guardian, following the rise of the big platforms, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the regulatory push from Brussels and Washington. Helena holds an MA in Journalism from City, University of London and is a regular speaker at Web Summit in Lisbon and CES in Las Vegas. She believes technology reporting should be rigorous and plainly written, so readers understand what actually changes for them rather than what a company's announcement promises.
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