Ultrafast self-assembly of supramolecular hydrogels toward novel flame-retardant separator for safe lithium ion battery

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Traditional polyolefin separators for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) often experience limited thermal stability and intrinsic flammability, resulting in great safety risks during their usage. Therefore, it is highly important to develop novel flame-retardant separators for safe LIBs with high performance. In this work, we report a flame-retardant separator derived from boron nitride (BN) aerogel with a high BET surface area of 1127.3 m2 g-1. The aerogel was pyrolyzed from a melamine-boric acid (MBA) supramolecular hydrogel, which was self-assembled at an ultrafast speed. The in-situ evolution details of the nucleation-growth process of the supramolecules could be observed in real-time using a polarizing microscope under ambient conditions. The BN aerogel was further composited with bacterial cellulose (BC) to form a BN/BC composite aerogel with excellent flame-retardant performance, electrolyte-wetting ability and high mechanical property. By using the BN/BC composite aerogel as the separator, the developed LIBs exhibited high specific discharge capacity of 146.5 mAh g-1 and excellent cyclic performance, maintaining 500 cycles with a capacity degradation of only 0.012% per cycle. The high-performance flame-retardant BN/BC composite aerogel represents a promising candidate for separators not only in LIBs but also in other flexible electronics.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:649

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Journal of colloid and interface science - 649(2023) vom: 20. Nov., Seite 591-600

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yang, Yunlong [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Zilin [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Tian [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Keyi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yanan [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Yunlong [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Shaokui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Tao [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Boron nitride
Flame-retardant
Journal Article
Lithium ion battery
Separator
Supramolecule

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Date Revised 25.07.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcis.2023.06.058

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM358658136