Evaluation of the Separation Process for the Production of Electrode Sheets

The recent development of individual mobility is characterized by a resource‐saving and environmentally friendly technology policy. Electromobility has the greatest potential to meet these demands. Due to the high volumetric power density at both the cell as well as the battery levels, pouch cells a...

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Published in:Energy technology (Weinheim, Germany) Germany), 2020-02, Vol.8 (2), p.n/a
Main Authors: Jansen, Tobias, Kandula, Maja W., Blass, David, Hartwig, Sven, Haselrieder, Wolfgang, Dilger, Klaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cutting parameters
die cutting
effects of defects
Electrochemical analysis
Electrochemistry
Electrodes
Laser beam cutting
laser cutting
lithium-ion batteries
Production methods
production strategies
Separation
Technology policy
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Summary:The recent development of individual mobility is characterized by a resource‐saving and environmentally friendly technology policy. Electromobility has the greatest potential to meet these demands. Due to the high volumetric power density at both the cell as well as the battery levels, pouch cells are addressed as a target cell format. As a separation of the electrodes is absolutely necessary for this cell design, the separation of the electrodes constitutes a basic operation of the pouch cell production. The established separation methods, such as die and laser cutting, are compared in this work with regard to their physical cutting‐edge quality. For reproducible evaluation, the occurring cutting‐edge characteristics are defined to clearly describe the quality of the separated electrode. Furthermore, the influence of the photonically and mechanically produced cutting edge on the electrochemical performance is presented. The results show that the delamination of the active materials and the bending of the collector and the metal spatter have the greatest influence on the electrochemical performance of the cell. Previous investigations have never compared the separation process of the electrodes with regard to their influence on electrochemical performance. This knowledge gap can be closed with this study, which shows that laser cutting offers the potential to replace the die‐cutting process in a battery production line.
ISSN:2194-4288
2194-4296
DOI:10.1002/ente.201900519