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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 163, Issue 6, Pages A1083-A1094Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/2.0081607jes
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- Israel Science Fundation, ISF
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Transition metal ions dissolution from positive electrodes initiates a well-known degradation mechanism in Li-ion cells, which limits their operational life. Preventing its consequences should be considered as a breakthrough in the field. We show herein that trapping Mn ions by ion-chelating polymers placed in the inter-electrode space of cells with lithium manganate spinel and Li or graphite electrodes, and greatly improves their high temperature cycling performance. Mn cations trapping separators were fabricated in-house using a commercial resin consisting of iminodiacetic acid disodium salt functional groups on a styrene divinylbenzene polymeric matrix, either by their inclusion into a separator through a phase-inversion method or by coating onto a plain commercial separator. We determined and compared the surface and cross-section morphologies, electrolyte-uptake, porosity, ionic-conductivity, and electrochemical-stability of these separators with those of a baseline separator. LMO-Li cells containing phase-inversion separators had similar to 15x less Mn on the Li-electrode than cells with the baseline separator, after 100 cycles at 55 degrees C. LMO-graphite cells with phase-inversion separators had similar to 6x less Mn on the graphite-electrode, after 100 cycles at 55 degrees C than cells with the baseline-separator. Capacity losses after cycling at 55 degrees C were 30% and 55%, respectively, for the cells with phase-inversion and baseline separators. (C) 2016 The Electrochemical Society.
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