{"id":7922,"date":"2017-02-05T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2017-02-05T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:58:06","slug":"packaging-the-solution-with-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/05\/packaging-the-solution-with-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Packaging The Solution With The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might save the phone even if the battery fails. Published on journal site <em><strong>Science Advances<\/strong><\/em>, an approach to the <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/1\/e1601978\" target=\"_blank\">lithium-ion battery fires<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although the energy densities of batteries continue to increase, safety problems (for example, fires and explosions) associated with the use of highly flammable liquid organic electrolytes remain a big issue, significantly hindering further practical applications of the next generation of high-energy batteries. We have fabricated a novel \u201csmart\u201d nonwoven electrospun separator with thermal-triggered flame-retardant properties for lithium-ion batteries. The encapsulation of a flame retardant inside a protective polymer shell has prevented direct dissolution of the retardant agent into the electrolyte, which would otherwise have negative effects on battery performance. During thermal runaway of the lithium-ion battery, the protective polymer shell would melt, triggered by the increased temperature, and the flame retardant would be released, thus effectively suppressing the combustion of the highly flammable electrolytes. [<cite>Science Advances\u00a0<\/cite> 13 Jan 2017: Vol. 3, no. 1, e1601978, DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.1601978]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They need a better editor, but it&#8217;s an interesting approach. Hopefully, your local phone technician will be able to tell that your battery didn&#8217;t burst into flame. (See, I can write as poorly as these folks.) (But my ideas aren&#8217;t nearly as good.) Of course, better to solve the problem <em>a priori;<\/em> this is more of a clean up after the problem has occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might save the phone even if the battery fails. Published on journal site Science Advances, an approach to the lithium-ion battery fires: Although the energy densities of batteries continue to increase, safety problems (for example, fires and explosions) associated with the use of highly flammable liquid organic electrolytes remain \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/05\/packaging-the-solution-with-the-problem\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}