Abstract: A method for manufacturing a crosslinked polyolefin separator and the crosslinked polyolefin separator obtained by the method are provided. The method includes (S1) mixing polyolefin, a diluting agent, an initiator and alkoxysilane containing a carbon-carbon double bonded group to an extruder, and then carrying out extrusion to obtain a silane-grafted polyolefin composition; (S2) molding and orienting the extruded silane-grafted polyolefin composition in the form of a sheet; (S3) introducing the oriented sheet to an extraction water bath containing a crosslinking catalyst to extract the diluting agent and perform aqueous crosslinking; and (S4) thermally fixing a resultant aqueous crosslinked product. The method can provide a separator having a high meltdown temperature and improved heat shrinkage.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a crosslinked polyolefin separator and the crosslinked polyolefin separator obtained therefrom are provided. The method includes non-grafted polyolefin having a weight average molecular weight of 300,000 or more and silane-grafted polyolefin having a weight average molecular weight of 300,000 or more. The method minimizes gel formation, a side reaction occurring in an extruder during the manufacture of the separator, and provides the separator having a uniform surface.

Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical device includes a first porous coating layer on a first surface of a porous polymer substrate. The first porous coating layer includes inorganic particles and a first binder polymer, and the first porous coating layer has an interstitial volume pore structure. The separator also includes a second porous coating layer on a second surface of the porous polymer substrate. The second porous coating layer includes second inorganic particles and a second binder polymer. The second porous coating layer having a node-filament pore structure. The separator also includes an electrode adhesion layer on a surface of the first porous coating layer opposite to the porous separator substrate. The electrode adhesion layer includes a third binder polymer. The separator for an electrochemical device has high heat resistance and improved adhesive property with electrode. An electrochemical device having the separator is also provided.

Abstract: Proposed are a chemical liquid supply unit, a substrate processing apparatus having the same, and a chemical liquid supply method. More particularly, proposed is a technique for supplying chemical liquids of different flow rates, in which a chemical liquid is supplied at the same flow rate to each of a plurality of chemical liquid lines and the flow rate of the chemical liquid is adjusted through a flow control valve disposed on at least one chemical liquid line selected among the plurality of chemical liquid lines, so that the plurality of chemical liquid lines can supply chemical liquids at different flow rates.

Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical device is provided. The separator includes a porous polymer substrate, and a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate, wherein the porous coating layer includes inorganic particles, a first polyvinylidene fluoride copolymer and a second polyvinylidene fluoride copolymer. A method for manufacturing the separator, and an electrochemical device including the same are also provided. It is possible to provide a separator with excellent adhesion between the porous polymer substrate and the porous coating layer and excellent adhesion to an electrode, and an electrochemical device including the same.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for detecting a defective porous sheet. The system includes a jig having a through-hole, a heating unit, a temperature sensor, a controlling unit, an air permeability-determining unit and a judging unit. In this manner, it is possible to provide a novel system for detecting a porous sheet, which may be a defective separator after being coated with a porous coating layer, beforehand by using the air permeability and shut-down temperature of the porous sheet itself.

Abstract: A separator, a method of manufacturing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a separator includes a non-crosslinked polyolefin layer; and a crosslinked polyolefin layer disposed on one surface of the non-crosslinked polyolefin layer and having at least one crosslinking bond represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein the separator is configured such that the non-crosslinked polyolefin layer of the separator faces a positive electrode. In some embodiments, a lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and the separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The lithium secondary battery has a high melt-down temperature and shows high oxidation stability under high-voltage/high-temperature environment.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a quick battery charging system including a lithium secondary battery having a negative electrode porosity of 25 to 35% and a negative electrode loading amount of x0. The system includes a storage unit which stores a lookup table for mapping first coefficient information of an upper bound condition associated with a C-rate of a charge current represented by a quadratic function and information associated with the negative electrode loading amount (x0). The system includes a charging control apparatus which reads the information associated with the negative electrode loading amount (x0) from the storage unit, determines the first coefficient information of the quadratic function representing the upper bound condition from the lookup table, determines the C-rate range of the charge current using the first coefficient information, and supplies the charge current satisfying the determined C-rate range to the lithium secondary battery.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a crosslinked polyolefin separator and a separator are provided. The method includes putting a polyolefin and a polyolefin elastomer into an extruder first, and putting an alkoxy silane containing a carbon-carbon double bond functional group, an initiator and a crosslinking catalyst to form the separator. The crosslinked polyolefin separator has high meltdown temperature and low shutdown temperature.

Abstract: Solvent-linked porous covalent organic polymers (COPs) and a method of preparing the same are described. The porous covalent organic polymers are linked by a solvent and are thus suitable for the transportation and storage of natural gas. A method of preparing the porous covalent organic polymers by conducting alkylation polymerization between an aromatic monomer and a chlorine-based solvent in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst is described. Porous stretchable covalent organic polymers having pores with various sizes can be synthesized simply and quickly at room temperature and atmospheric pressure without a heating or purification step. The covalent organic polymers have very high natural gas storage capacity due to the flexible porous network structure thereof and thus are suitable for storage and transportation of natural gas and useful as a natural gas adsorbent.

Abstract: Disclosed are a crosslinked separator for a lithium secondary battery which comprises a crosslinked polyolefin porous substrate including a plurality of fibrils and pores formed by the fibrils entangled with one another, wherein polyolefin chains forming the fibrils are crosslinked directly with one another; and shows a change in tensile strength of 20% or less in the machine direction, as compared to a non-crosslinked separator including a polyolefin porous substrate before crosslinking, and a method for manufacturing the same. The crosslinked separator for a lithium secondary battery has excellent thermal safety, while not adversely affecting the other physical properties.

Abstract: A crosslinked polyolefin separator having a ratio (A/B) of storage modulus G? (A) to loss modulus G? (B) of 2 or more, at a range of the frequency of the crosslinked polyolefin separator of 1 rad/s or less, in the frequency-loss/storage modulus curve. The crosslinked polyolefin separator is controlled to have a high ratio of storage modulus to loss modulus, and thus maintains its elasticity even at high temperature. Therefore, it is possible to provide a separator having improved safety.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an electrode-separator composite: including (S1) coating an electrode active material slurry on at least one surface of an electrode current collector and drying to form an electrode, (S2) coating a polymer solution containing polymer particles on at least one surface of the electrode to form a separator coating layer, and (S3) drying the separator coating layer to form a porous separator, and an electrode-separator composite manufactured by the manufacturing method and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same.

Abstract: A composite separator for an electrochemical device, including: a porous polymer substrate having a plurality of pores; and a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer includes a plurality of particles and a binder positioned on at least a part of the surface of the particles to connect and fix the particles with one another. The particles include at least one of inorganic particles or organic particles, and the composite separator has a melt-down temperature of 170° C. or higher. An electrochemical device including the composite separator is also disclosed.

Abstract: A separator for a lithium secondary battery is provided. The separator includes a porous polymer substrate and a porous coating layer positioned on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer includes inorganic particles and a binder polymer. The binder polymer includes a PVdF-based binder polymer, and the PVdF-based binder polymer has a first peak at a 2? of 18.2±0.2° and a second peak at a 2? of 19.8±0.2°, as analyzed by X-ray diffractometry (XRD), and a ratio of an area of the second peak to an area of the first peak (the area of the second peak/the area of the first peak) is equal to or more than 1.25 and less than 2.75. The separator for the lithium secondary battery includes fine and uniform pores formed on the surface thereof to provide an increased adhesive surface area to an electrode, resulting in improvement of adhesion to the electrode.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery separator with excellent adhesive strength and air permeability is disclosed. The lithium secondary battery separator includes a porous polymer substrate; and a porous coating layer containing inorganic particles and a binder. When the binder is present as a binder specimen with a thickness of 0.4 mm after pressurization at 190° C., the binder specimen comprises a first binder having a tan ? peak at 15° C. to 27.6° C. and a second binder having a tan ? peak at 8° C. to 20.2° C., as measured by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a crosslinked polyolefin separator, including the steps of: (S1) introducing polyolefin having a weight average molecular weight of 200,000-1,000,000, a first diluting agent, alkoxysilane containing a carbon-carbon double bonded group, an initiator and a crosslinking catalyst to an extruder; (S2) introducing a second diluting agent to the extruder, followed by mixing, to carry out reactive extrusion of a silane-grafted polyolefin composition; (S3) molding and orienting the reactive extruded silane-grafted polyolefin composition in a form of a sheet; (S4) extracting the first diluting agent and the second diluting agent from the oriented sheet to obtain a silane-grafted polyolefin porous membrane; (S5) thermally fixing the porous membrane; and (S6) crosslinking the porous membrane in the presence of water and a crosslinked polyolefin separator are provided.

Abstract: An optimal automatic mapping method between a real image and a thermal image in a body heat tester, and the body heat tester using the method. The real image from the real imaging camera has wider angle of view than the thermal image from the thermal imaging camera, to maximize the use of thermal imaging without omission of thermal imaging pixels in a thermal inspection device using an infrared imaging device. The body heat tester comprises a thermal imaging camera, a real imaging camera and a data processing unit. The data processing unit matches the thermal and real images, obtains the reconstructed real image matched with the thermal image by stretching or shortening the top, bottom, left, and right of the real image based on the thermal image, and detects the body heat (temperature) of the subject using the thermal image and the reconstructed real image.

Abstract: A polyolefin separator is provided in the present disclosure. The polyolefin separator includes a polyolefin porous substrate including a plurality of fibrils and pores formed by the fibrils draped across one another. A coating layer surrounding the outer side of the fibrils is contained in the polyolefin porous substrate and the coating layer includes a crosslinked polymer, wherein the polyolefin separator having the coating layers has a change in air permeability of 20% or less and a change in basis weight of 4% or less, as compared to the polyolefin porous substrate. A method for manufacturing the polyolefin separator and a secondary battery including the polyolefin separator are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive electrode slurry composition, and a positive electrode for a secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode slurry composition, and particularly, to a positive electrode slurry composition which includes a positive electrode active material, a fluorine-containing polymer, a conductive agent, a solvent, and a polymer or oligomer containing a unit represented by Formula 1, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode slurry composition.