{"id":3344,"date":"2026-04-27T04:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:56:18","slug":"chinese-team-unveils-smart-firewall-electrolyte-for-battery-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"<div>Chinese team unveils &#8216;smart firewall&#8217; electrolyte for battery safety<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-04-07\/Chinese-team-unveils-smart-firewall-electrolyte-for-battery-safety-1M979LcfjiM\/img\/7e985bd3ab7144f08be35232b9fed542\/7e985bd3ab7144f08be35232b9fed542.png\" alt=\"Technicians assemble sodium-ion battery units at a production facility in central China\" s henan province on february><\/p>\n<p>A research team from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a self-protecting, non-flammable electrolyte that physically blocks &#8220;thermal runaway&#8221; in sodium-ion batteries \u2013 the first time this level of safety has been achieved in high-capacity cells.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;smart firewall&#8221; technology, which automatically solidifies when temperatures exceed 150\u00b0C, was detailed in a study published in Nature Energy on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the industry has equated &#8220;flame-retardant electrolytes&#8221; with safety. Led by Hu Yongsheng, the team has developed Polymerizable Non-flammable Electrolyte (PNE) that acts as a multi-layered defense system.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a single line of defense, the liquid PNE can undergo a rapid phase change and solidify into a dense, physical barrier, effectively cut off the propagation of heat, and prevent the catastrophic fires or explosions typically associated with battery failure.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough is expected to fast-track the adoption of sodium-ion batteries in sectors where safety is non-negotiable, such as Electric Vehicles (EVs), heavy-duty trucking, and massive grid-scale energy storage that are rapidly developing in China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a self-protecting, non-flammable electrolyte that physically blocks &#8220;thermal runaway&#8221; in sodium-ion batteries \u2013 the first time this level of safety has been achieved in high-capacity cells.\u00a0 This &#8220;smart firewall&#8221; technology, which automatically solidifies when temperatures exceed 150\u00b0C, was detailed in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}