drying of lithium ion battery (lib) electrodes
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Acknowledgements: This work was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the cluster project “ProZell” (Funding Nr. 03XP0073B). Parts of this work were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, grant SCHA 1266/9-1) and the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI, 03ET6016) based on a parliamentary resolution of the Deutsche Bundestag.
Institute of Thermal Process Engineering
Thin Film Technology
M. Sc. Jana Kumberg
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High Drying Rate (HDR)Low Drying Rate (LDR)
Part of HighEnergy - ProCell
Defined Coating Defined Drying
Understanding of drying mechanismse.g. Kryo-REM: Cross sections of wet LIB anodes
High capacity electrodes (thicker coatings, high capacity additives,...)
Multilayer coatings:
simultaneous vs
in between drying step
Variation of:
additive content
pore size (active material size)...
Mixing Coating & Drying Calendering Cell stacking
Simplified Process Chain of Lithium Ion Battery Production
Graphite Carbon Black Binder
Solvent
GraphiteCarbon Black
+ Binder
Solvent removal
Graphite
Microstructure Formation during Drying
Paste formulation and coating of slurry
Cross section of dry LIB anode: porous network of graphite and additives
adhesion no adhesion
Binder detection: REM+EDX
binder inhomogenities
: LDRevenly distributed
binder
HDR: binder accumulation
on surface
Jaiser, S.; Funk, L.; Baunach, M.; Scharfer, P.; Schabel, W. ; Journal of colloid and interface science; 2017
Jaiser, S.; Kumberg, J.; Klaver, J.; Urai, Janos L.; Schabel, W.; Schmatz, J.; Scharfer, P.; Journal of Power Sources; 2017surface
substrate
surface
substrate
binder conc.
Drying highly influences
microstructure formation
Drying of Lithium Ion Battery (LIB) Electrodes
Solvent removal
Müller, M.; Pfaffmann, L.; Jaiser, S.; Baunach, M. et al.; Journal of Power Sources; 2017
Challenges Research
10 µm
200 nm Carbon Black
LIB anode during drying
Slurry