New batteries help to avoid any risk of fire

Lithium-ion battery technology, despite its advantages (light weight, high capacity), has an undeveloped disadvantage: it contains flammable chemical components and causes fire. incident.

A team of researchers at the University of Northern California in Chapel Hill has recently announced that they are working to find an alternative ingredient (for the current chemical composition of the battery) to help prevent potential battery damage. fires which cause these great consequences.

Accordingly, they discovered a component called fluoride polymer (also known as PFPE ), which can be used to produce non-flammable, flammable batteries such as lithium batteries. PFPE is also a chemical ingredient used in the marine industry to help prevent marine organisms from sticking to the bottom of the vessel. Specifically, the team used PFPE to dissolve lithium salts, and could be used to replace the electrolyte (used in Lithium batteries today) but much safer because it does not ignite.

The research team is looking for improvements to help keep the battery charged and discharged continuously. It is hoped that these studies will be successful and that in the future we will have new batteries that will eliminate any potential fire hazard.