A few weeks ago, a building was reduced to ashes after a power bank had exploded to emit fire, this had hadly followed several cases of Samsung Note 7 releases that had their batteries exploding on serial cases.
This did not come as such a shock because on several occasions, batteries had been exploding. But the hype was different.
The researchers have cracked their brains against the exploding battery material- Lithium-ion.
“Smartphones and other electronic gadgets that use lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries — used in billions of mobile devices — and charged to 100 per cent are more likely to release toxic gases and explode than a half-charged battery when the batteries overheat or explode,” the report posted on Nano Energy noted.
The research also noted that gases from these batteries cause irritations to the skin, eyes and nasal passageswhich are fatal.
“If leaked inside a small, sealed environment, such as the interior of a car or an aeroplane, carbon monoxide can cause serious harm within a short period of time”, according to Dr Jie Sun from the Institute of NBC Defence and Tsinghua University in China, who conducted the research.
