Relationship between morphology and conductivity of block-copolymer based battery separators

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 394-395, Issue , 2012, Pages 175-183

  Wong, David T ^a,b   Mullin, Scott A ^a,b   Battaglia, Vincent S ^b   Balsara, Nitash P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery separator; Block copolymer blends; Ionic conductivity; Morphology effect; Nanoporous

Indexed keywords

BATTERY ELECTROLYTE; BATTERY SEPARATORS; BLOCK COPOLYMER BLENDS; CASTING FILMS; ETHYLENE CARBONATE; ION TRANSPORTS; LITHIUM HEXAFLUOROPHOSPHATE; MORPHOLOGY EFFECT; NANO-POROUS; NANO-SCALE PORES; NITROGEN ADSORPTION; POLYSTYRENE HOMOPOLYMERS; PORE VOLUME FRACTIONS; SURFACE AREA;

BLENDING; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ETHYLENE; GAS ADSORPTION; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; IONIC CONDUCTIVITY; LITHIUM; MORPHOLOGY; POLYETHYLENES; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPARATION;

SEPARATORS;

COPOLYMER; NITROGEN; POLYSTYRENE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; FILM; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; NANOANALYSIS; NANOPORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84856521796     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2011.12.037     Document Type: Article

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