Separator media for electrochemical cells
AssigneeDupont Safety & Construction, Inc.
InventorsHyun Sung Lim, Pankaj Arora
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Abstract
A separator medium for electrochemical cells that contains at least one nonwoven sheet of polymeric fibers. The nonwoven sheet has a surface area of about 0.5 to about 1.5 m2/g and has a maximum pore size that is equal to or more than 2.5 times the mean flow pore size and more than 11 times the minimum pore size. The sheet may be sulfonated to a level of 0.67% and demonstrates superior tensile properties after sulfonation and relative to previously known separators.
Claims14
A nonwoven sheet comprising polymeric plexifilamentary fibers wherein the sheet is whole surface bonded and has a surface area of 0.5-1.5 m2/gram, and a maximum pore size that is equal to or more than 2.5 times the mean flow pore size and more than 11 times the minimum pore size.
A nonwoven sheet comprising polymeric plexifilamentary fibers the sheet being produced by flash spinning a solution of 12% to 24% by weight polyethylene in a spin agent consisting of a mixture of normal pentane and cyclopentane at a spinning temperature from about 205° C. to 220° C. to form plexifilamentary fiber strands and collecting the plexifilamentary fiber strands into an unbonded web, and uniaxially stretching the unbonded web in the machine direction between heated draw rolls at a temperature between about 124° C. and about 154° C., positioned between about 5 cm and about 30 cm apart and stretched between about 3% and 25% to form the stretched web,
- wherein the sheet is whole surface bonded and has a surface area of 0.5-1.5 m2/gram and a maximum pore size that is equal to or more than 2.5 times the mean flow pore size and more than 11 times the minimum pore size.
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