{"id":33635,"date":"2017-01-19T23:43:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T07:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-smart-fibers-curb-fires-in-lithium-ion-batteries"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:56:37","slug":"new-smart-fibers-curb-fires-in-lithium-ion-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-smart-fibers-curb-fires-in-lithium-ion-batteries","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018smart\u2019 fibers curb fires in lithium-ion batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-smart-fibers-curb-fires-in-lithium-ion-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hoverboards and certain cell phones powered by lithium-ion batteries occasionally go up in flames. Scientists now have a new plan for squelching these fires before they flare out of control: incorporating a flame retardant in the battery that\u2019s released if temperatures get too toasty.<\/p>\n<p>Within lithium-ion batteries, ions travel between positive and negative electrodes through a liquid called an electrolyte. But commonly used electrolytes are highly flammable. And if a short circuit in the battery produces enough heat, the electrolyte can ignite.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/new-smart-fibers-curb-fires-lithium-ion-batteries\">New \u2018smart\u2019 fibers curb fires in lithium-ion batteries | Science News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofx.com\/2017\/01\/19\/new-smart-fibers-curb-fires-lithium-ion-batteries-science-news\/\">https:\/\/www.sofx.com\/2017\/01\/19\/new-smart-fibers-curb-fires-...ence-news\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoverboards and certain cell phones powered by lithium-ion batteries occasionally go up in flames. Scientists now have a new plan for squelching these fires before they flare out of control: incorporating a flame retardant in the battery that\u2019s released if temperatures get too toasty. Within lithium-ion batteries, ions travel between positive and negative electrodes through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33635","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59072,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33635\/revisions\/59072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}