Journal of Power Sources 294 (2015) 167e172
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Journal of Power Sources
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Swelling and softening of lithium-ion battery separators in electrolyte solvents
* Gennady Y. Gor a, , John Cannarella b, Collen Z. Leng b, Aleksey Vishnyakov c, Craig B. Arnold b, 1 a NRC Research Associate, Resident at Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave., SW Washington, DC 20375, United States b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States c Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, United States highlights graphical abstract