Efficient utilization of glass fiber separator for low-cost sodium-ion batteries

Xiaohang Ma; Zhijie Chen; Tianwen Zhang; Xueqian Zhang; Yuan Ma; Yanqing Guo; Yiyong Wei; Mengyuan Ge; Zhiguo Hou; Zhenfa Zi

doi:10.1007/s12613-023-2691-9

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Xiaohang Ma, Zhijie Chen, Tianwen Zhang, Xueqian Zhang, Yuan Ma, Yanqing Guo, Yiyong Wei, Mengyuan Ge, Zhiguo Hou, and Zhenfa Zi, Efficient utilization of glass fiber separator for low-cost sodium-ion batteries, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 30(2023), No. 10, pp. 1878-1886. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-023-2691-9

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Xiaohang Ma, Zhijie Chen, Tianwen Zhang, Xueqian Zhang, Yuan Ma, Yanqing Guo, Yiyong Wei, Mengyuan Ge, Zhiguo Hou, and Zhenfa Zi, Efficient utilization of glass fiber separator for low-cost sodium-ion batteries, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 30(2023), No. 10, pp. 1878-1886. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-023-2691-9

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Efficient utilization of glass fiber separator for low-cost sodium-ion batteries

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Zhenfa Zi E-mail: zfzi@issp.ac.cn
Received: 6 April 2023; Revised: 29 May 2023; Accepted: 15 June 2023; Available online: 17 June 2023

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The separator is a key component of sodium-ion battery, which greatly affects the electrochemical performances and safety characteristics of the battery. Conventional glass fiber separator cannot meet the requirements of large-scale application because of high cost and poor mechanical properties. Herein, the novel composite separators are prepared by a simple slurry sieving process using glass fiber separator scraps and ordinary qualitative filter paper as raw materials. As the composite mass ratio is 1:1, the composite separator has excellent comprehensive properties, including tensile strength of 15.8 MPa, porosity of 74.3%, ionic conductivity of 1.57 × 10⁻³ S·cm⁻¹ and thermal stability at 210°C. The assembled sodium-ion battery shows superior cycling performance (capacity retention of 94.1% after 500 cycles at 1C) and rate capacity (retention rate of 87.3% at 10C), and it maintains fine interface stability. The above results provide some new ideas for the separator design of high-performance and low-cost sodium-ion batteries.
- separator;
- glass fiber;
- low cost;
- sodium-ion batteries

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