A porous gel-type composite membrane reinforced by nonwoven: promising polymer electrolyte with high performance for sodium ion batteries. (10th January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhu, Yusong; Yang, Yaqiong; Fu, Lijun; Wu, Yuping
• Is Part Of: Electrochimica acta. Volume 224(2017)
• Page Start: 405
• Page End: 411
• Publication Date: 2017-01-10
• Subjects: composite membrane -- gel polymer electrolyte -- nonwoven -- P(VDF-HFP) -- sodium ion batteries (SIBs); Electrochemistry -- Periodicals; Electrochemistry, Industrial -- Periodicals; 541.37
• DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.12.030
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-4686

Abstract

Highlights: A porous composite gel electrolyte reinforced by PP nonwoven for SIBs is reported. Ionic conductivity of the GPE at r.t. is 4 times higher than commercial separator. The stress of the GPE arrives almost the same level with Celgard 2730 separator. The gel polymer electrolyte shows good electrolyte retention even at 110 °C. The electrochemical reversibility for Na4 Mn9 O8 has been confirmed by using the GPE. Abstract: A porous composite membrane with P(VDF-HFP) as host and nonwoven as reinforcement has been successfully prepared and reported in this paper. The tensile strength of the composite is very close to that of Celgard 2730 separator in both wet and dry state. The Na + ionic conductivity of the given gel-type composite membrane (0.82 mS cm −1 ) absorbed NaClO4 organic liquid electrolyte at room temperature has found to be four times higher than that of the commercial separator saturated with the same electrolyte (0.16 mS cm −1 ). It has also showed enhanced transference number of Na + ions and good electrolyte retention even at 110 °C. The electrochemical reversibility for Na4 Mn9 O8 cathode has been confirmed by cyclic voltammetry by using the aforementioned gel polymer electrolyte (GPE). The porous composite GPE exhibits great application prospect for sodium ion batteries with high energy density.