What are lithium-ion battery separators?

Lithium-ion battery separators are receiving increased consideration from the scientific community. Single-layer and multilayer separators are well-established technologies, and the materials used span from polyolefins to blends and composites of fluorinated polymers.

What is a battery separator?

The battery separator is one of the most essential components that highly affect the electrochemical stability and performance in lithium-ion batteries. In order to keep up with a nationwide trend and needs in the battery society, the role of battery separators starts to change from passive to active.

Are ceramic-coated lithium-ion cell separators safe?

Ceramic-coated separators and high melting point polymer materials offer some improvement in thermal stability and abuse tolerance for lithium-ion cell separators but, in general, more evaluation is needed to quantify the safety impact of these new separators.

Are battery separators based on a coin cell battery?

To the best of our knowledge, all lab-scale experimental studies on the battery separators were carried out using coin cell batteries. These coin cell batteries, however, are structurally different from the most widely-used commercial LIBs, which have cylindrical cells .

Can a multifunctional separator be used in a Li-ion battery separator?

Multifunctional separators offer new possibilities to the incorporation of ceramics into Li-ion battery separators. SiO 2 chemically grafted on a PE separator improves the adhesion strength, thermal stability (<5% shrinkage at 120 °C for 30 min), and electrolyte wettability as compared with the physical SiO 2 coating on a PE separator .

Are cellulose separators good for lithium batteries?

Over the last five years, cellulose-based separators for lithium batteries have drawn a lot of interest due to their high thermal stability, superior electrolyte wettability, and natural richness, which can give lithium batteries desired safety and performance improvement.