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Thermal-Switchable, Trifunctional Ceramic-Hydrogel Nanocomposites Enable Full-Lifecycle Security in Practical Battery Systems

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ACS NANO
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c02557

Keywords

battery safety; thermal management; hydrogel; thermal runaway; high energy density

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51788104]
  2. Beijing Natural Science Foundation [JQ19005]
  3. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M691713]

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A smart ceramic-hydrogel nanocomposite with integrated thermal management, cooling, and fire insulation functionalities is designed to improve the safety of large-format lithium-ion battery systems.
Thermal runaway (TR) failures of large-format lithium-ion battery systems related to fires and explosions have become a growing concern. Here, we design a smart ceramic-hydrogel nanocomposite that provides integrated thermal management, cooling, and fire insulation functionalities and enables full-lifecycle security. The glass-ceramic nanobelt sponges exhibit high mechanical flexibility with 80% reversible compressibility and high fatigue resistance, which can firmly couple with the polymer-nanoparticle hydrogels and form thermal-switchable nanocomposites. In the operating mode, the high enthalpy of the nanocomposites enables efficient thermal management, thereby preventing local temperature spikes and overheating under extremely fast charging conditions. In the case of mechanical or thermal abuse, the stored water can be immediately released, leaving behind a highly flexible ceramic matrix with low thermal conductivity (42 mW m(-1) K-1 at 200 degrees C) and high-temperature resistance (up to 1300 degrees C), thus effectively cooling the TR battery and alleviating the devastating TR propagation. The versatility, self-adaptivity, environmental friendliness, and manufacturing scalability make this material highly attractive for practical safety assurance applications.

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