Cell phone batteries keep catching fire, but researchers are working on a solution.
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A Samsung Galaxy A21 smartphone was the latest to make headlines after it burst into flames and forced a plane to land. No one was seriously injured in the crash at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, but experts say the dangers of gadget batteries are growing.
“Lithium-ion batteries are becoming ubiquitous in everyday life in a range of applications at different scales, from small electronic devices, to electric vehicles, to large grid-scale storage installations,” Gavin Harper, a battery researcher at the University of Birmingham, told Lifewire in an email interview. “Any technology that stores a huge amount of energy in a dense medium is going to have intrinsic safety issues if that energy is released uncontrollably.”
As the recent event in Seattle demonstrated, despite decades of efforts to improve safety, batteries can still ignite.
