Preparation and Performance of PAN/PS/PMMA Ternary Blend-Modified Fiber Membranes via Centrifugal Spinning for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Abstract

Addressing the issues of poor thermal resistance in conventional polyolefin separators and the low production efficiency of electrospinning, this study innovatively employed high-efficiency centrifugal spinning technology to fabricate a ternary blended modified fiber membrane composed of polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polystyrene (PS), and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). By precisely adjusting the polymer ratio (8:2:2) and fine-tuning the spinning process parameters, a separator with a three-dimensional network structure was successfully produced. The research results indicate that the separator exhibited excellent overall performance, with a porosity of 75.87%, an electrolyte absorption rate of up to 346%, and a thermal shrinkage of less than 3% after 1 h at 150 °C, along with a tensile strength reaching 23.48 MPa. A lithium-ion battery assembled with this separator delivered an initial discharge capacity of 159 mAh/g at a 0.2 C rate and maintained a capacity retention of 98.11% after 25 cycles. Moreover, under current rates of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 C, the battery assembled with the ASM-14 configuration achieved high discharge capacities of 148, 136, and 116 mAh/g, respectively. This study offers a novel design strategy for modifying multi-component polymer battery separators.

Keywords

• centrifugal spinning
• fiber membranes
• polystyrene
• poly(methyl methacrylate)
• blending modification