Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 226, Issue -, Pages 149-155Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2012.10.093
Keywords
Lithium-ion battery; Mechanical stress; Separator; Power fade; Capacity fade; Tortuosity
Funding
- Department of Defense (DoD) through the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Program
- Princeton University Siebel Energy Grand Challenge
- Carbon Mitigation Initiative
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We use AC impedance methods to investigate the effect of mechanical deformation on ion transport in commercial separator membranes and lithium-ion cells as a whole. A Bruggeman type power law relationship is found to provide an accurate correlation between porosity and tortuosity of deformed separators, which allows the impedance of a separator membrane to be predicted as a function of deformation. By using mechanical compression to vary the porosity of the separator membranes during impedance measurements it is possible to determine both the alpha and gamma parameters from the modified Bruggeman relation for individual separator membranes. From impedance testing of compressed pouch cells it is found that separator deformation accounts for the majority of the transport restrictions arising from compressive stress in a lithium-ion cell. Finally, a charge state dependent increase in the impedance associated with charge transfer is observed with increasing cell compression. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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