On June 26 th, 2019, a vehicle exploded while parked in its owner's garage in Montreal without warning. 1 This phenomenon was the result of a thermal runaway process affecting the car's lithium-ion ...

While a typical 18650 commercial, rechargeable lithium-ion battery has an energy capacity of around 2,800 milliampere hours (mAh), the miniature cylindrical pouch-type cells have a capacity of just 20 ...

Several lithium-ion (Li-ion) cells undergo thermal runaway each year. Thermal runway refers to a catastrophic failure wherein all electrical and chemical energy in the cell is rapidly released as heat ...

Thermal runaway in a semiconductor device is a mysterious and scary phenomenon. A device can cross a magic threshold and burn up in an instant — something you'll never see coming. What makes thermal ...

Overheating batteries are a serious risk, in the worst cases leading to fires and explosion. A team has now developed a simple, cost-effective method to test the safety of lithium-ion batteries, which ...