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Making Safer Lithium-Ion Batteries
itwbennett writes "Exploding iPhones may be a thing of the past. Researchers at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute have developed a new polymer, STOBA (that's self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture to you and me), that is added to the cathode material inside a lithium-ion battery to keep them from overheating. 'Fires or explosions in these batteries are caused by short circuits,' said Wu Hung-chun, a researcher at ITRI, explaining that even minor mishandling such as dropping the handset could result in damage causing a short circuit. 'The technology is ready for lithium-ion batteries used in electronic devices, mobile phones, laptops,' said Wu. And ITRI has started testing STOBA on electric car batteries."
"Horse and buggies may now be a thing of the past due to the new honda civic comeing out this year"
You got that right! I'm finally ready to trade in ol' Bessie.
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dude... you're harshing my buzz... and I've already got my laptop's battery in pieces....
Anybody want my mod points?
Preach it, bro'. They don't explode because they're full of shitty batteries, they explode because they're full of extreme awesomeness.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
...they're full of extreme awesomeness.
And when that comes into contact with the anti-particle of awesomeness, the average iPhone user, they annihilate each other, releasing enormous amounts of energy.
Have gnu, will travel.
I'll post this preemptively since usually when battery fires are discussed some people insist this is unavoidable if you want a high energy density
Too late. You posted emptively.
Can't be, because there is no charge for awesomeness.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Yeah but most meth cooks are also high school chemistry teachers. You do your cooking on the side and keep your reagents at work with the kids.
No worries. These new, Safer Li-ion batteries will implode instead.
Is that the "short life" of the battery, or the "short life" of the person who had the battery explode in their pocket?