Recent Development of Thermal Insulating Materials for Li-Ion Batteries

Ting Quan, Qi Xia, Xiaoyu Wei and Yanli Zhu ()
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Ting Quan: State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Qi Xia: State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Xiaoyu Wei: State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Yanli Zhu: State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Safety Protection, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 17, 1-37

Abstract: As one of the core components of electric vehicles, Li-ion batteries (LIBs) have attracted intensive attention due to their high energy density and good long-term cycling stability. However, some abuse conditions inevitably occur during battery operation, resulting in safety accidents such as the thermal runaway (TR) of LIBs. Therefore, the efficient and appropriate thermal insulation material design is crucial for LIB packs to effectively reduce or even inhibit the spread of TR. Based on it, in this review, we present the principle and influences of TR to provide the necessity of battery thermal management and thermal insulating materials. Then, we deeply discuss and compare the two kinds of representative thermal insulating materials: phase change thermal insulating materials and barrier-type thermal insulating materials. Their properties, synthesis methods, and modification means are investigated to provide some guidance for the future application of high-performance thermal insulating materials in the field of LIBs.

Keywords: thermal runaway; phase change materials; thermal insulating materials; Li-ion batteries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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