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Poly(methyl methacrylate-butyl-acrylamide-styrene)/polyethylene electrospinning separator incorporated with ionic liquid for safer LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2 cathode

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To significantly improve the safety property of commercial lithium-ion batteries, replacing the flammable carbonate solvents by the ionic liquid solvents should be the convenient strategy. However, the special structure of ionic liquid resulted in its poor wettability with traditional polyolefin separators, leading to the high internal resistance and pitiful cycle stability of the assembled battery. To solve the incompatibility between ionic liquid and polyolefin separator, the poly(methyl methacrylate-butyl-acrylamide-styrene) (P(MMA-BA-AN-St)) copolymer was coated onto polyethylene (PE) separator by electrospinning technique. The contact angle between imidazole ionic liquid electrolyte and separator sharply decreased from 77.9° for PE separator to 48.4° for P(MMA-BA-AN-St)/PE separator. Meanwhile, the P(MMA-BA-AN-St)/PE separator saturated with the ionic liquid electrolyte presented the non-flammability, higher ionic conductivity of 5.5 × 10−4 S cm−1, wider oxidative decomposition potential, and improved electrochemical stability compared with the carbonate electrolyte, contributing to the better coulombic efficiency (close to 100%), capacity retention, and rate property for the high-energy–density Li/LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2 coin cell. Thus, the developed separator provided an alternatives to match the safer ionic liquid electrolyte with 4 V cathode.

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The authors are highly grateful for the financial support from the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2021A1515010141) and Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Project (Grant No. 202102080610).

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    Mingyao Hong, Xueyi Luo, Youhao Liao, Guanjie Li, Guojing Zang & Weishan Li

  2. National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of MPTES in High Energy and Safety LIBs, Engineering Research Center of MTEES (Ministry of Education), and Key Lab. of ETESPG(GHEI), South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Youhao Liao & Weishan Li

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Hong, M., Luo, X., Liao, Y. et al. Poly(methyl methacrylate-butyl-acrylamide-styrene)/polyethylene electrospinning separator incorporated with ionic liquid for safer LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2 cathode. Ionics 28, 543–554 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-021-04342-0

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