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According to Yonhap News,

(ULSAN=Yonhap News) Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) will commence research on how to make safer lithium-ion batteries, in collaboration with the Japanese research equipment company JEOL Ltd.

Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in everyday products such as smartphones and electric vehicles, but at times lead to problems of heating up or catching fire after repeated cycles of charging and discharging.

The two organizations will study how the materials change when problems occur in lithium-ion batteries, and thereby find out why some batteries heat up or catch fire.

For this research, UNIST and JEOL signed a business agreement on Feb. 9, and opened a secondary cell analysis center inside the UNIST campus, making it the second university (after the University of Tokyo) JEOL has partnered up to open an analysis center.

The new center at UNIST will be supplied with its own transmission electron microscope (TEM) solely for research purposes, with funding from the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the City of Ulsan.



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