Battery knowledge · Manufacturing

Coating

Applying slurry to the moving foil at a controlled wet thickness, usually with a slot die, often on both sides. Coating weight per area must be held within about one percent across the web, because every downstream property depends on it. [1]

Example

Wet and dry thickness differ

Wet coating includes solvent. Dry thickness also depends on retained solids and resulting structure.

Use in Lemonergy

Place operations and quality checks in process order.

This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.

Learn it in Lesson 3 · Cell production →

References & further reading

Technical references

  1. Current and future lithium-ion battery manufacturing

    Yangtao Liu, Ruihan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yan Wang · iScience · 2021

    Technical reference · Electrode preparation, cell assembly, formation and manufacturing trade-offs.