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by walter_bishop 3527 days ago
'Dendrites and Pits: Untangling the Complex Behavior of Lithium Metal Anodes through Operando Video Microscopy'

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.6b00260

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Anything specific you'd like to highlight?
I'm not knowledgeable enough to say, but there are problems with these kind of batteries overheating, especially on recharging. Pumping electricity through a material produces heat. If it has nowhere to go then you end up with a fire and toxic fumes. The solution on airplanes being to put the battery in a sealed metal box with a pipe to vent any toxic fumes to the outside of the hull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...