Journal
MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 222, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2022.111104
Keywords
Extensional rheology; Electrode slurry; Battery manufacturing; Sustainable binders; Metrology
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Funding
- Faraday Institution NEXTRODE project [EP/S003053/1, FIRG015]
- [FITG FUSE -064]
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This study quantifies the extensional properties of battery electrode slurries using a miniature extensional rheometer. The results show significant variations in extensional behavior between different formulations and binder systems. This novel extensional rheology technique is essential for understanding flow in a coater and the underlying slurry structure.
Precise rheological properties of inks and slurries are essential to providing homogeneous, well controlled and reproducible coatings, particularly in electrode manufacturing for batteries. The rheology can aid understanding of the slurry structure, as well as optimisation of the process conditions to create electrode coatings with the desired microstructure. The shear rheology is typically measured, however the mixing and coating steps contain significant extensional flows, this omits a significant part of the rheological response. Here the extensional properties of battery electrode slurries are quantified using a miniature extensional rheometer. This requires tiny samples (<1 ml) and provides rapid capture of the extensional properties, allowing easy repetition. The extensional behaviour varies significantly between different for-mulations and binder systems. The additional extensional rheometry measurements are key for under-standing flow in a coater and the underlying slurry structure, and are not predicted by shear rheology. This novel extensional rheology technique, applied to battery electrode slurries, provides key rheological parameters, rapidly, and is essential to understanding the precise rheological properties and control for coating depositions.(c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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