Power struggle

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3096, 2016, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Marks talks about Samsung's exploding phones that show how risky lithium-ion batteries can be. Expectations were high as the latest lightweight model hit the market--and initially all was fine. Users raved about its sleek curves, capacity and power. But then the lithium battery fires began and the brand took a knock. No, not Samsung's Galaxy Note7 smartphone, whose blazing power cells saw the product withdrawn worldwide last week. Rather, this was the Boeing 787, the carbon-fibre airliner whose launch was also dogged by burning batteries