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.
Originally published by Cosmos as The science of stopping batteries exploding
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