18 September 2017
Cosmos
Curated content from the editorial staff at Cosmos Magazine.
Headlines keep on popping up in the news about exploding cellphones, laptops, and hover-boards. This is due to a phenomenon called thermal runaway, and it has a lot to do with those lithium ion batteries that are inside most of our household tech.
This video takes you through the chemistry on why batteries go boom, then takes a look at the lithium ion battery of the future.