SmartNanotubes Technologies, a startup that has developed the world’s first electronic nose chip “Smell iX16” for mass market applications, and Linxens, a global leader in smart card technology, RFID tags and reel-to-reel flexible electronics, united their efforts to develop a disruptive early warning sensor for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicles. With exponentially growing numbers of electric vehicles worldwide, the danger of fires caused by out-of-control Li-ion batteries increases...