2024 Student Poster Award - 1st Place
OCT 01, 2024
Qingsong Liu
Critical roles of rheology in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries
Qingsong Liu
- Liu, Qingsong (Northwestern University, Chemical ang biological engineering)
- Richards, Jeffrey J. (Northwestern University, Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Abstract
Both shear and extensional rheology are critical to the battery manufacturing process as they dictate the slurry processibility and the structure achieved in the coated thin film. The porous cathodes of LIBs are a composite of micron-sized electrochemically AM (active material) particles, nanometer-scale conductive additive CB (carbon black), and polymer binder PVDF (poly(vinylidene difluoride)).