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Safety issues with lithium-ion batteries prevent their widespread use in critical areas of technology. Various types of protective systems have been proposed to prevent thermal runaway and subsequent battery combustion. Among them, thermoresistive sy...

Due to the influence of the control strategy of the battery energy storage station (BESS), the degree of voltage sag, and the battery state of charge (SOC), the fault current characteristics of the BESS outlet line differ significantly. Traditional o...

Nowadays, thermal runaway accidents involving lithium batteries in new energy vehicles and energy storage power stations occur frequently, with battery deformation pressure as the core precursor signal. Traditional battery protection schemes suffer f...

Extracting renewable energy from solar and wind energy systems, fuel cells, and tidal power plants requires DC distribution and energy storage devices. In particular, a metal-insulator-transition (MIT) sensor can be applied to the over-temperature-pr...

The market for electric vehicles (EVs) has been growing in popularity, and by 2027, it is predicted that the market valuation will reach $869 billion. To support the growth of EVs in public road safety, advances in battery safety research for EV appl...

This paper addresses the challenge of thermal runaway propagation in lithium-ion battery modules and presents a safety protection design method based on a thermal propagation model. Firstly, it systematically analyzes the triggering mechanisms of the...

Direct current (dc) microgrids have gained significant interest in research due to dc generation/storage technologies—such as photovoltaics (PV) and batteries—increasing performance and reducing in cost. However, proper protection and con...

In 2021, the electric vehicles (EVs) market reached a record-breaking 6.5 million vehicles, and it will continuously grow to USD 31 million in 2030. However, the risk of battery damage should be reduced using a lightweight crashworthy protection syst...

With the rapid development of battery energy storage technology, the issue of thermal runaway (TR) in lithium-ion batteries has become a key challenge restricting their safe application. This study presents an innovative protection strategy that inte...

When an islanding condition caused by an unintentional single-line to ground fault occurs in an active distribution network with distributed generation, the frequency stability and protection issues remain challenging. Therefore, this paper presents...

Due to their high energy density, long calendar life, and environmental protection, lithium-ion batteries have found widespread use in a variety of areas of human life, including portable electronic devices, electric vehicles, and electric ships, amo...

Improvement in electric vehicle technology requires the lithium-ion battery system’s safe operations, protecting battery fire damage potential from road debris impact. In this research a design of sandwich panel construction with a lattice stru...

Recent advancements in lithium-metal-based battery technology have garnered significant attention, driven by the increasing demand for high-energy storage devices such as electric vehicles (EVs). Lithium (Li) metal has long been considered an ideal n...

A low cost battery charger is introduced in this paper. The charging feature meets the requirement of a Li-Ion rechargeable cell designed for electric vehicles and manufactured by E company. The charger is capable of constant current/constant voltage...

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) plays a pivotal role in the fire protection of Li-ion batteries, especially for the high-voltage (HV) battery systems in Electrical Vehicles (EVs). This study covers the application of TES in mitigating thermal runaway ri...

To solve the disadvantages of the low protection grade, high weight, and high cost of the existing locomotive power battery system, this study optimizes the existing scheme and introduces the design concept of two-stage protection. The purpose of the...

This paper proposes a modular battery management system for an electric motorcycle. The system not only can accurately measure battery voltage, charging current, discharging current, and temperature but also can transmit the data to the mixed-signal...

Severe volumetric expansion (~400%) limits practical application of silicon nanoparticles as anode materials for next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Here, we describe the fabrication and characterization of a conformal polydopamine carbon s...

A composite container for an electric vehicle (EV) battery module filled with a phase-change material (PCM) was experimentally tested at various discharge rates. The average cell temperatures at 1 C, 2 C, and 4 C discharge rates, respectively, might...

The rapid shift toward electric vehicles (EVs) has underscored the critical importance of battery pack crashworthiness, creating a demand for lightweight, energy-absorbing protective systems. This review systematically explores bio-inspired cellular...

The commercialization of rechargeable alkaline zinc–air batteries (ZAB) requires advanced approaches to improve secondary zinc anode performance, which is hindered by the high corrosion and dissolution rate of zinc in this medium. Modified (wit...

The fire safety of lithium-ion battery systems in electric vehicles is often examined through separate studies of thermal runaway, propagation, early warning, and fire suppression, making it difficult to translate fragmented evidence into system-leve...

A critical external interference that often appears to pose a safety issue in rechargeable energy storage systems (RESS) for electric vehicles (EV) is ground impact due to stone impingement. This study aims to propose the new concept of the sandwich...

With the widespread application of lithium-ion battery energy storage stations, thermal runaway (TR) of energy storage batteries has evolved into a safety issue that cannot be overlooked. To prevent the propagation of thermal runaway, this study prop...

The increasing electrification in aircraft propulsion and assistant systems necessitates innovative approaches in battery safety design. This work presents an investigation into a lightweight, fire-resistant composite battery housing tailored for mod...

As the market share of electric vehicles continues to expand, fire accidents due to impacts from the power battery located at the bottom of the electric vehicles are receiving increasing attention. Lithium-ion batteries, as the mainstream choice of p...

Currently, the Direct-Current (DC) microgrid has been gaining popularity because most electronics devices require a DC power input. A DC microgrid can significantly reduce the AC to DC energy conversion loss. However, a power grid may experience a li...

Silicon is the one of the most promising anode material alternatives for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. However, the low electronic conductivity, unstable formation of solid electrolyte interphase, and the extremely high volume expansion (up...

Due to the limited service life of new energy vehicle power batteries, a large number of waste power batteries are facing “retirement”, so it will soon be important to effectively improve the recycling and reprocessing of waste power batt...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are the fastest-growing type of transport. Battery packs are a key component in EVs. Modern lithium-ion battery cells are characterized by low self-discharge current, high power density, and durability. At the same time, the b...

Electric aircraft powered by lithium batteries (LIBs) have seen rapid development in recent years, making research into their thermal runaway (TR) characteristics crucial for ensuring flight safety. This study focused on the individual battery cells...

Metal-oxygen batteries (especially Li-O₂ battery) with ultrahigh theoretical energy density are of great promise for long-range vehicle electrification. However, the limited enduring stability and low-rate property further restricted the large-scale...

This research study involves designing and optimizing a sandwich structure based on an auxetic structure to protect the pouch battery system for electric vehicles undergoing ground impact load. The core of the sandwich structure is filled with the au...

A polyurea-coated carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) laminated structure is designed to enhance the impact resistance of lithium-ion batteries against ground impact. This paper presents a numerical simulation to investigate the influence of a pol...

In recent years, the demand for medium and large secondary batteries in EV (electric vehicle) and ESS (energy storage systems) applications has been rapidly increasing worldwide, and accordingly, the market size is increasing exponentially. However,...

The automotive industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the modern economy. Growing customer expectations, implementing solutions related to electromobility, and increasingly stringent legal restrictions in the field of environmental protect...

This paper discusses the potential of using lightweight nature-inspired cellular structured designs as energy absorbers in crashworthiness applications for electric vehicles (EV). As EVs are becoming popular with their increased battery capacity, the...

Outdoor Internet of Things (IoT) sensor nodes require battery systems for which their behaviour and implementation limits are characterized under low-temperature and variableload conditions. This study documents a LiFePO₄ battery-pack prototype integ...

DC microgrids are composed of loads, renewable sources, and storage devices that require control and protection to operate safely. The flyback converter is an alternative to connect paralleled batteries with nominal voltage DC buses; however, until n...

This paper discusses the lightning-induced voltage effect on a hybrid solar photovoltaic (PV)-battery energy storage system with the presence of surge protection devices (SPD). Solar PV functions by utilizing solar energy, in generating electricity,...

The electric vehicle (EV) market, together with photovoltaic (PV) installations continues to develop at a pace. However, there are concerns that EV and PV installation fires may create more harmful substances than other types of fire. PV modules and...

Lithium-oxygen batteries, with their very high energy density (3500 Wh kg⁻¹), could represent a real breakthrough in the envisioned strategies towards more efficient energy storage solutions for a less and less carbonated energy mix. However, t...

The rapidly growing production and usage of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) dramatically raises the number of harmful wastes. Consequently, the LIBs waste management processes, taking into account reliability, efficiency, and sustainability criteria, be...

The Li_1.17Ni_0.17Mn_0.50Co_0.17O₂ Li-rich NMC positive electrode (cathode) for lithium-ion batteries has been coated with nanocrystals of the LiMn_1.5Co_0.5O₄ high-voltage spinel cathode material. The coating was applied through a single-source precursor...

Despite features of cost-effectiveness, high safety, and superior capacity, aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have issues of uncontrolled dendritic cell failure and poor Zn utilization, resulting in inferior cycling reversibility. Herein, the environ...

This paper presents an integrated energy management and protection framework for sustainable renewable DC microgrids. The proposed system combines energy management, fault detection, selective isolation, and impedance-based fault-distance estimation...

The tantalum oxide thin films are promising materials for various applications: as coatings in optical devices, as dielectric layers for micro and nanoelectronics, and for thin-films solid-state lithium-ion batteries (SSLIBs). This article is dedicat...

With the continuous development of the new energy vehicle industry, in order to further improve the safety and range of electric vehicles, vehicle lightweighting has been a key focus of major car companies. However, research on lightweighting and the...

Manganese-based cathodes offer high capacity, low cost, and safety for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs), yet suffer from Mn dissolution, Jahn–Teller distortion, and sluggish Zn²⁺ kinetics. Herein, a Zn/Co co-doped MnO nanoporous carbon compos...

The protection of zinc anodes in zinc–air batteries (ZABs) is an efficient way to reduce corrosion and Zn dendrite formation and improve cyclability and battery efficiency. Anion-conducting poly(N-vinylbenzyl N,N,N-trimethylammonium)chloride (P...