Sustainable and Superior Heat-Resistant Alginate Nonwoven Separator of LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4/Li Batteries Operated at 55 °C

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• 作者：Huijie Wen ; Jianjun Zhang ; Jingchao Chai ; Jun Ma ; Liping Yue ; Tiantian Dong ; Xiao Zang ; Zhihong Liu ; Botao Zhang ; Guanglei Cui
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 1, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：9
• 期：4
• 页码：3694-3701
• 全文大小：675K
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

High-voltage lithium-ion batteries have become a major research focus. As a major part of lithium batteries, the separator plays a critical role in the development of high-voltage lithium batteries. Herein, we demonstrated a sustainable and superior heat-resistant alginate nonwoven separator for high-voltage (5 V) lithium batteries. It was demonstrated that the resultant alginate nonwoven separator exhibited better mechanical property (37 MPa), superior thermal stability (up to 150 °C), and higher ionic conductivity (1.4 × 10^–3 S/cm) as compared to commercially available polyolefin (PP) separator. More impressively, the 5 V class LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ (LNMO)/Li cell with this alginate nonwoven separator delivered much better cycling stability (maintaining 79.6% of its initial discharge capacity) than that (69.3%) of PP separator after 200 cycles at an elevated temperature of 55 °C. In addition, the LiFePO₄/Li cell assembled with such alginate nonwoven separator could still charge and discharge normally even at an elevated temperature of 150 °C. The above-mentioned fascinating characteristics of alginate separator provide great probability for its application for high-voltage (5 V) lithium batteries at elevated temperatures.