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The applications of aerogel in battery field will be more diversified

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Author : TRUNNANO
Update time : 2020-12-22 10:17:35
Lithium-ion batteries are currently the most widely used in the battery industry, but lithium-ion batteries have unavoidable safety problems due to their structural characteristics and the nature of the materials used.
 
Especially in the scene of lithium-ion batteries for power, due to the high total voltage and large working current required in the power field, it often requires thousands of single batteries to be used in groups. At this time, the battery safety problem becomes more prominent. As far as the current battery material technology is concerned, this safety issue has not yet been completely resolved. Therefore, the current heat insulation, flame retardant and fire protection of lithium-ion batteries is an effective means to reduce the harm caused by thermal runaway of lithium-ion batteries.
 
 
Aerogels are currently known solid materials with the lowest thermal conductivity. The thermal insulation performance of aerogel insulation felts, heat insulation panels, and heat insulation papers can be up to 5 times that of ordinary products, plus excellent fire and flame retardancy. Soft impact resistance, sound insulation and noise reduction, etc., in addition to good promotion in the fields of industrial energy saving, civil insulation, etc., with the development of the aerogel industry, the application of aerogel in the field of batteries have become more and more extensive.
 
Aerogel has extremely low thermal conductivity
Researchers have verified the thermal insulation protection effect of aerogel heat insulation board between single cells through experiments. The aerogel separator was verified by the thermal runaway propagation experiment by wrapping the 6Ah capacity into a 20mm spacing module with four 200mm insulation materials and adding a 1cm thick aerogel insulation board between the two monomers (Figure 1). The blocking effect of thermal runaway in the thermal protection of the single-cell compartment.
 
The experimental results show that after monomer A is thermally out of control, monomer B in the blank group without thermal protection is quickly heated and thermally out of control, while the highest temperature of experimental monomer B with an aerogel insulation board between the monomers is only 110 ℃, successfully blocked the thermal runaway propagation of the 6Ah cell at a distance of 20mm, and the voltage of the uncontrolled cell remained basically unchanged, which played a good role in protecting the safety hazards of the thermal runaway of the battery pack caused by the explosion of the single cell.
 
In addition, aerogel can further reduce the safety distance between monomers due to its excellent heat insulation and flame retardant properties. In order to save more space and increase the total power of the battery pack, aerogel companies have developed a series of high-performance ultra-thin aerogel insulation panels, insulation paper and other products to meet the safety and high energy density requirements of the battery industry.
 
With the development of my country s aerogel industry, the application of aerogel in the battery field will become more diversified, and the application range will also spread from the earliest military thermal batteries to more civilian battery fields, such as new energy power batteries, Thermal insulation and flame retardant protection for lithium-ion batteries and accumulators used in electronic equipment.
 
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