The invention relates to the technical field of adhesive tapes for lithium battery cells, in particular to an expansion adhesive tape for lithium battery cells, which comprises a base material and glue, the glue is arranged on the inner side surface of the base material, and the adhesive tape expands when encountering electrolyte, so that the cells can be fixed, and the existing termination adhesive tape is replaced. Compared with other surface treatment modes, the base material is formed by casting and coating non-acid-resistant and degradable films such as CPP, OPS, TPU, PLA and PO, off-line rewinding is not needed during coating, coating is carried out between longitudinal stretching and transverse stretching, a transverse stretching section is used as a drying oven to dry coating liquid, and the production efficiency is high; the coating is uniform, the coating is thinner than off-line coating, the coating effect is better, the coating cost can be obviously reduced, the surface tension of the film subjected to corona treatment is gradually attenuated along with time, the surface of the film subjected to coating treatment does not have the corona attenuation problem, and the acrylic acid glue is selected for coating, so that the adaptability is high, the drying speed is high, and the coating quality is high. The adhesive force to a base material is strong, and the leveling property and transparency are good.