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General Lithium Battery Safety:
Read the Battery Safety Midnight Sun page!
This page has some safety practices for low voltage LiPo batteries for Radio Control hobbyists:
https://www.rchelicopterfun.com/lipo-batteries.html
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Dissipative vs Non-Dissipative Balancing (Active vs Passive): http://liionbms.com/php/wp_passive_active_balancing.php
Internal Resistance: https://www.rchelicopterfun.com/lipo-internal-resistance.html
NASA Battery Design Presentations:
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Contains cell screening report: https://www.energytech.org/wp-content/uploads/ET2016Presentations/ET16-4G2DevelopmentofDistributedLithiumIonBatteryforSpaceSuitMiller.pdf
Battery Building Kits - Interesting but not suitable for our applications
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