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Glass fiber fabric mat as the separator for lithium-ion battery with high safety performance

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Separator plays an important role in the safety performance of lithium-ion battery since many accidents have been caused by internal shorting of battery due to the failure of the separators. Herein, thermal stable and flexible glass fiber fabric was reported to be a promising candidate for separators with high safety. The thermal stability, mechanical, and electrochemical performance of the glass fiber fabrics were studied and compared with traditional commercialized separators in details. Our results show that the glass fiber fabrics can be a successful separator for lithium-ion battery with high safety performance due to its greatly improved thermal stability, high mechanical strength, and matched electrochemical performance.

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This work was supported by the National Basic Research of China (Grant Nos. 2015CB932500 and 2013CB632702) and NSF of China (Grant No. 51302141). H. W. acknowledges the support from the 1000 Youth Talents Plan of China.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Xi Luo, Wei Pan, Jianghong Gong & Hui Wu

  2. Taishan Fiberglass INC, Taian, 27100, China

    Honggang Liu

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Luo, X., Pan, W., Liu, H. et al. Glass fiber fabric mat as the separator for lithium-ion battery with high safety performance. Ionics 21, 3135–3139 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-015-1540-x

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