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9 years ago, PC Pitstop first sponsored research<\/a> regarding the volatility of lithium ion batteries found in laptop batteries. Unfortunately, the need for this research continues in 2015 and Nature Communications has published a lengthy study including a fascinating look inside an exploding battery (see video below).<\/p>\n This is what a lithium ion battery looks like when it\u2019s purposely heated to the point of explosion\u2014for science. Sorry to dash any young pyromaniacs\u2019 hopes, but it\u2019s not something to try at home: Aside from the obvious dangers of exploding white-hot metal and chemicals, you\u2019d need a synchrotron particle accelerator and a heat gun to pull off a vid like this.<\/p>\n For \u200ba new pap\u200ber in Nature Communications<\/a>, a group of UK and European researchers pushed two different commercial lithium ion batteries\u2014which are commonly used in everything from smartphones to electric cars\u2014to their breaking point, so they could observe what happens on the inside when they fatally overheat.<\/p>\n \u201cIncreasingly we\u2019re pushing lithium ion batteries into a greater and greater range of applications,\u201d said Paul Shearing, a chemical engineer at University College London and one of the paper\u2019s authors, in a phone call. \u201cBut actually, the kind of underlying chemistry and the underlying engineering design of these things hasn\u2019t changed enormously from when they were commercialised in the late 80s and early 90s.\u201d
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