creator Al-hallaj, Said creator Selman, Robert Electrochemical cell battery systems and associated methods of operation are provided based on the incorporation of a thermal management matrix including a supply of phase change material disposed at least in part in a heat conductive lattice member to effectively dissipate heat produced or generated by or in the battery system such as to minimize or prevent thermal runaway propagation in the electrochemical cells of the system. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2013-06-18T15:48:36Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1089 bytes, checksum: 0a703d871bf062c5fdc7850b1496693b (MD5) 8273474.pdf: 372005 bytes, checksum: 7e158fff2067631a8b49a6c36ee7eda1 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-06-18T15:48:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1089 bytes, checksum: 0a703d871bf062c5fdc7850b1496693b (MD5) 8273474.pdf: 372005 bytes, checksum: 7e158fff2067631a8b49a6c36ee7eda1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-25 Illinois Institute of Technology 2013-04-26 2012-09-25 8,273,474 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3001 en CC0 1.0 Universal http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access