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Aramid nanofiber reinforced cellulose paper for high-safety lithium-ion batteries

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Lithium dendrite growth greatly threaten the safety of lithium-ion batteries by piercing the separators. Fabricating a lithium-dendrite-suppressing separator with high mechanical strength, thermal stability and ionic conductivity features is a challenging work. Herein, aramid nanofibers (ANFs) is used as novel nanofiller to reinforce commercial cellulose paper via simple vacuum filtration method. The reinforced cellulose paper (ANF-CP) shows robust mechanical strength, super thermal stability and excellent electrolyte wettability and ionic conductivity, demonstrating its great potential as separators. The ANF-CP exhibits outstanding compatibility to lithium anode (voltage gap of ~ 4.0 mV upon 3000 h), which indicate the functions of homogeneous plating/stripping of lithium and demonstrate its lithium-dendrite-suppressing property. The LiFePO4/Li cells with ANF-CP separator exhibit a high discharge capacity of ~ 122.4 mAh g−1 at 5C with exceptional cycling stability. Besides, the mechanism and phenomenon of dendrite suppressing are also confirmed by DFT simulation calculation and the continuous charging and discharging experiments of LiFePO4/graphite full-cells. All the results demonstrate the ANF-CP may have great potential application in energy storage systems, and thus this work may promote the application of cellulose and aramid fibers.

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Financial supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 52163016, 51662029), Jiangxi Key Research and Development Program (NO.20202BBG73012), and Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Environment and Energy Catalysis (20181BCD40004).

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  1. College of Chemistry, Nanchang University, No.999, Xuefu Road, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330031, People’s Republic of China

    Jiao-Long Pan, Ze Zhang, Mei-Ling Zhou, Jun-Chao Wei & Zhen-Yu Yang

  2. School of Stomatology, Nanchang University, No.49, Fuzhou Road, Nanchang, 330031, People’s Republic of China

    Jun-Chao Wei

  3. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Center for Composite Materials and Structures, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150080, People’s Republic of China

    Wei-Dong He

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Pan, JL., Zhang, Z., Zhou, ML. et al. Aramid nanofiber reinforced cellulose paper for high-safety lithium-ion batteries. Cellulose 28, 10579–10588 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-021-04173-2

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