{"id":210690,"date":"2025-04-06T06:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dangerous-by-design-runaway-miniature-battery-makes-safety-testing-more-accessible-and-affordable"},"modified":"2025-04-06T06:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:08:57","slug":"dangerous-by-design-runaway-miniature-battery-makes-safety-testing-more-accessible-and-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dangerous-by-design-runaway-miniature-battery-makes-safety-testing-more-accessible-and-affordable","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous by design: Runaway miniature battery makes safety testing more accessible and affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dangerous-by-design-runaway-miniature-battery-makes-safety-testing-more-accessible-and-affordable2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overheating batteries are a serious risk, in the worst cases leading to fires and explosion. A team including researchers from the University of Tokyo has developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-025-01751-7\" target=\"_blank\">simple, cost-effective method<\/a> to test the safety of lithium-ion batteries, which opens up opportunities for research into new and safer batteries for the future. The work is publishedNature Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers created an intentionally unstable battery which is more sensitive to changes that could cause overheating. The battery is one-50th the size of conventional batteries, so it is less resource-intensive and tests can be carried out in a smaller lab environment.<\/p>\n<p>News stories abound of lithium-ion batteries overheating, smoking or even exploding. This makes <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/safety\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">safety<\/a> testing a top priority for both manufacturers and consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overheating batteries are a serious risk, in the worst cases leading to fires and explosion. A team including researchers from the University of Tokyo has developed a simple, cost-effective method to test the safety of lithium-ion batteries, which opens up opportunities for research into new and safer batteries for the future. The work is publishedNature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210690","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}