EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF BIODEGRADABLE CELLULOSE ACETATE FOR RECHARGEABLE COIN CELL BATTERY.

A clean energy requirements for bio-power emphasize the need for technological improvements in the solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) domain. This exceptionally high-skill field has assumed a crucial role in planning energy-based equipment in recent years, which has replaced fluid electrolytes in electrochemical sensors, fuel cells, and electrochemical devices. Materials based on lithium conduction, which is used to develop electrochemical devices play a major role for the same. Eco-friendly materials have gained a fair amount of importance for facing an energy crisis, the warming of the earth and the very concept of the resilient energy revolution. Extensive study is going on to develop biopolymer-based electrochemical devices, rather than conventional artificial polymers owing to their high cost and ecologically unfriendly nature. Cellulose Acetate having different concentrations of Lithium Chloride (LiCl) has been prepared by the solution casting technique and characterized by XRD. The highest conductivity of 2.136 x 10-2 Scm-1 observed amongst the various samples was achieved by the concentration of 10:90 percent of CA : LiCl. The high amorphicity is based on the results of the powder XRD process. A Lithium ion-based battery has been developed by utilizing the biopolymer electrolyte membrane having the highest conductivity, and its open load voltage, and nominal voltage are estimated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]