Overheating, badly designed batteries and poorly installed lithium-ion batteries are the reasons behind battery explosions. This has been the problem of Samsung's newest product, the Galaxy Note 7.
Customers have experienced Samsung Galaxy Note complications following the explosions of Samsung lithium-ion batteries while being charged. Following the incidences, Samsung has recalled the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 models containing lithium ion batteries, according to the report of Emirates 24/7.
The latest Samsung lithium battery explosions place tech companies into a conundrum when in fact they have been looking for more lightweight, more powerful, and easily charged batteries in order to power multiple electronic gadgets.
In the early part of the '90s, lithium-ion batteries were introduced as they were used in portable video cameras that are hand-held. Lithium-ion batteries power everything from the electrical engines of the jets to the motor vehicles, to hoverboards to the phones that are used by billions.
Last year, the grounding of the Boeing 787 and the flameout of the hoverboard has been over the news as the lithium batteries have been known to have caused the fire flames. These lead to the massive recalls of hoverboard products.
According to Physicist Jason Croy of Electrochemical Energy Storage department in Argonne National Labs in Lemont, Ill, device manufacturers are attracted to lithium-ion batteries because though they are small and compact, they can load huge amounts of power and energy, USA Today reported.
Overall, lithium-ion batteries are very safe but with the use of billions and billions of devices containing lithium batteries, there have been several noteworthy failures that have come to play.
About a hundred hoverboard fire and explosion incidences are the result of the poorly-installed and poorly-designed lithium-ion batteries. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has then recalled the 500 thousand units of hoverboards. As experts profess, the main cause of the explosions of lithium-ion batteries is overheating, with 100 degrees centigrade as its breaking point.
The lithium-ion batteries operate through the movement of the lithium particles in between the positive and negative electrode to discharge and charge, and this causes the heat. If the lithium-ion batteries are poorly and badly designed or not properly installed or used, the heat could combust the chemicals which could cause explosions or flames.