{"id":20680,"date":"2016-01-12T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/scientists-develop-a-lithium-ion-battery-that-shuts-down-at-high-temperatures-to-avoid-explosions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:11","slug":"scientists-develop-a-lithium-ion-battery-that-shuts-down-at-high-temperatures-to-avoid-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/scientists-develop-a-lithium-ion-battery-that-shuts-down-at-high-temperatures-to-avoid-explosions","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop a lithium-ion battery that shuts down at high temperatures to avoid explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-a-lithium-ion-battery-that-shuts-down-at-high-temperatures-to-avoid-explosions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The primary reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-why-hoverboards-are-so-dangerous\">hoverboards have become public enemy #1<\/a> in recent times is due to their unfortunate tendency to catch fire and explode due to their lithium-ion batteries overheating.<\/p>\n<p>But a new lithium-ion battery developed by scientists in the US could put an end to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-get-first-x-ray-of-exploding-lithium-ion-battery\">such dramas<\/a>. Researchers at Stanford University have made the world\u2019s first lithium-ion battery that shuts off before it overheats, then restarts immediately when its temperature has cooled.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional lithium-ion batteries comprise a pair of electrodes and a liquid or gel electrolyte that carries charged particles between them. However, if the battery\u2019s temperature reaches around 150 degrees Celsius (300 degrees Fahrenheit) as a result of a defect or overcharging, the electrolyte can catch fire and trigger an explosion, <a href=\"http:\/\/wgno.com\/2015\/11\/29\/exploding-hoverboard-blamed-for-destroying-lafitte-familys-home\/\">as we\u2019ve seen in many sad cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-develop-a-lithium-ion-battery-that-shuts-down-at-high-temperatures-to-avoid-explosions\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary reason hoverboards have become public enemy #1 in recent times is due to their unfortunate tendency to catch fire and explode due to their lithium-ion batteries overheating. But a new lithium-ion battery developed by scientists in the US could put an end to such dramas. Researchers at Stanford University have made the world\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68867,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680\/revisions\/68867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}