1804results about "Nickel oxides/hydroxides" patented technology

The present invention provides a high-capacity and low-cost non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising: a negative electrode containing, as a negative electrode active material, a ssubstance capable of absorbing/desorbing lithium ions and/or metal lithium; a separator; a positive electrode; and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode active material contained in the positive electrode is composed of crystalline particles of an oxide containing two kinds of transition metal elements, the crystalline particles having a layered crystal structure, and oxygen atoms constituting the oxide forming a cubic closest packing structure.

A powder of a layered lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide for use as a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery is provided which, when used as a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, enables a cost reduction and higher safety to be reconciled with improved battery performances.

The powder of a layered lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide for use as a positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery is composed of secondary particles formed by the aggregation of primary particles. It has a composition represented by the following formula (I), has a volume resistivity of 5×10⁵ Ω·cm or lower in the state of being compacted at a pressure of 40 MPa, and has a value of C/S, wherein C is the concentration of carbon contained therein (% by weight) and S is the BET specific surface area thereof (m²/g), of 0.025 or smaller. The powder has been regulated so as to have a volume resistivity not higher than the specified value and a considerably reduced carbon content while having a composition in a limited range, whereby a cost reduction and higher safety can be reconciled with improved battery performances.

Li_1+zNi_xMn_yCo_1−x−yO_δ  (I)

(0<z≦0.91, 0.1≦x≦0.55, 0.20≦y≦0.90, 0.50≦x+y≦1, 1.9≦δ≦3)

A positive active material for lithium secondary batteries, includes a composite oxide including an oxide which is represented by the composite formula Li_xMn_aNi_bCo_cO₂ and has an α-NaFeO₂ structure, and an impurity phase including Li₂MnO₃. The values a, b, and c are within such a range that in a ternary phase diagram showing the relationship among these, (a, b, c) is present on the perimeter of or inside the quadrilateral ABCD defined by point A (0.5, 0.5, 0), point B (0.55, 0.45, 0), point C (0.55, 0.15, 0.30), and point D (0.15, 0.15, 0.7) as vertexes, and 0.95<x/(a+b+c)<1.35.

This invention discloses materials for positive electrodes of secondary batteries and their methods of fabrication. Said materials comprise of granules of an active material for positive electrodes coated with an oxide layer. The active material is one or more of the following: oxides of lithium cobalt, oxides of lithium nickel cobalt, oxides of lithium nickel cobalt manganese, oxides of lithium manganese, LiCoO₂, LiNi_1-xCo_xO₂, LiNi_1/3Co_1/3Mn_1/3O₂, and LiMn₂O₄. The non-oxygen component in the oxide layer is one or more of the following: aluminum, magnesium, zinc, calcium, barium, strontium, lanthanum, cerium, vanadium, titanium, tin, silicon, boron, Al, Mg, Zn, Ca, Ba, Sr, La, Ce, V, Ti, Sn, Si, and B. Said non-oxygen component of the granules is between 0.01 wt. % to 10 wt. % of said granules of active material. The methods of fabrication for said materials includes the steps of mixing an additive and an active material for positive electrodes uniformly in water or solvent, evaporating said solvent or water, and heat treating the remaining mixture at 300° C. to 900° C. for between 1 hour to 20 hours. The additive is a compound of one or more of the following elements: aluminum, magnesium, zinc, calcium, barium, strontium, lanthanum, cerium, vanadium, titanium, tin, silicon, boron, Al, Mg, Zn, Ca, Ba, Sr, La, Ce, V, Ti, Sn, Si, and B where the element is between 0.01 wt. % to 10 wt. % of said active material. Using the materials of positive electrodes disclosed above or materials for positive electrodes fabricated in the methods disclosed above in batteries produces batteries with excellent cycling and high temperature properties.

A composition suitable for use as a cathode material of a lithium battery includes a core material having an empirical formula Li_xM′_zNi_1−yM″_yO₂. “x” is equal to or greater than about 0.1 and equal to or less than about 1.3. “y” is greater than about 0.0 and equal to or less than about 0.5. “z” is greater than about 0.0 and equal to or less than about 0.2. M′ is at least one member of the group consisting of sodium, potassium, nickel, calcium, magnesium and strontium. M″ is at least one member of the group consisting of cobalt, iron, manganese, chromium, vanadium, titanium, magnesium, silicon, boron, aluminum and gallium. A coating on the core has a greater ratio of cobalt to nickel than the core. The coating and, optionally, the core can be a material having an empirical formula Li_x1A_x2Ni_1−y1−z1Co_y1B_z1O_a. “x1” is greater than about 0.1 a equal to or less than about 1.3. “x2,”“y1” and “z1” each is greater than about 0.0 and equal to or less than about 0.2. “a” is greater than 1.5 and less than about 2.1. “A” is at least one element selected from the group consisting of barium, magnesium, calcium and strontium. “B” is at least one element selected from the group consisting of boron, aluminum, gallium, manganese, titanium, vanadium and zirconium.

An uncycled preconditioned electrode for a non-aqueous lithium electrochemical cell including a lithium metal oxide having the formula Li_(2+2x)/(2+x)M′_2x/(2+x)M_{(2−2x)/(2+x)}O_2−δ, in which 0≦x<1 and δ is less than 0.2, and in which M is a non-lithium metal ion with an average trivalent oxidation state selected from two or more of the first row transition metals or lighter metal elements in the periodic table, and M′ is one or more ions with an average tetravalent oxidation state selected from the first and second row transition metal elements and Sn, and an uncycled electrode of the formula xLi₂M′O₃.(1−x)LiMO₂, in which 0≦x<1, and in which M is a non-lithium metal ion with an average trivalent oxidation state selected from two or more first-row transition metals or lighter metal elements in the periodic table, and M′ is one or more ions with an average tetravalent oxidation state selected from the first- and second-row transition metal elements and Sn, the electrode being preconditioned in a proton-containing medium with a pH<7.0. Methods of preconditioning the electrodes are disclosed as are electrochemical cells and batteries containing the electrodes.

Disclosed are primary materials, precursor materials and final materials as well as methods to prepare these materials. The final materials are mixed lithium transition metal oxides, useful as performance optimized cathode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries. The transition metal is a solid solution mixture of manganese, nickel and cobalt, M=(Mn1-uNiu)1-u-yCoy, with 0.2

A nonaqueous electrolytic secondary cell produced at low cost and having a large capacity comprises a negative electrode having an active material mainly composed of a material that at least absorbs and releases lithium ions or metallic lithium, a positive electrode, and an electrolyte. The active material of the positive electrode is an oxide containing nickel, manganese, and cobalt, and the contents of the elements are substantial the same.

A positive active material is provided which can give a battery having a high energy density and excellent high-rate discharge performance and inhibited from decreasing in battery, performance even in the case of high-temperature charge. Also provided is a non-aqueous electrolyte battery employing the positive active material. The positive active material contains a composite oxide which is constituted of at least lithium (Li), manganese (Mn), nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and oxygen (O) and is represented by the following chemical composition formula: Li_aMn_bNi_cCo_dO_e (wherein 0<a≦1.3, |b−c|≦0.05, 0.6≦d<1, 1.7≦e≦2.3, and b+c+d=1). The non-aqueous electrolyte battery has a positive electrode containing the positive active material, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte.

Because of the composition represented by General Formula: Li1+x+alphaNi(1-x-y+delta)/2Mn(1-x-y-delta)/2MyO2 (where 0<=x<=0.05, -0.05<=x+alpha<=0.05, 0<=y<=0.4; -0.1<=delta<=0.1 (when 0<=y<=0.2) or -0.24<=delta<=0.24 (when 0.2<=y<=0.4); and M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, Al, Ge and Sn), a high-density lithium-containing complex oxide with high stability of a layered crystal structure and excellent reversibility of charging/discharging can be provided, and a high-capacity non-aqueous secondary battery excellent in durability is realized by using such an oxide for a positive electrode.

Disclosed is a positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery. The positive active material includes at least one compound represented by formulas 1 to 4 andl a metal oxide or composite metal oxide layer formed on the compound. <table-cwu id="TABLE-US-00001"> <number>1</number> <tgroup align="left" colsep="0" rowsep="0" cols="3"> <colspec colname="OFFSET" colwidth="42PT" align="left"/> <colspec colname="1" colwidth="77PT" align="left"/> <colspec colname="2" colwidth="98PT" align="center"/> <row> <entry></entry> <entry></entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry namest="OFFSET" nameend="2" align="center" rowsep="1"></entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry>LixNi1-yMnyF2</entry> <entry>(1)</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry>LixNi1-yMnyS2</entry> <entry>(2)</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry>LixNi1-y-zMnyMzO2-aFa</entry> <entry>(3)</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry>LixNi1-y-zMnyMzO2-aSa</entry> <entry>(4)</entry> </row> <row> <entry></entry> <entry namest="OFFSET" nameend="2" align="center" rowsep="1"></entry> </row> </tgroup> </table-cwu> (where M is selected from the group consisting of Co, Mg, Fe, Sr, Ti, B, Si, Ga, Al, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Ac, Th, Pa, U, Np, IPu, Am, Cm, Bk, Cf, Es, Fm, Md, No and Lr, 0.95<=x<=1.1, 0<=y<=0.99, 0<=,z<=0.5, and 0<=a<=0.5)

A fuel cell includes an electrolyte, a first electrode, and a second electrode. At least the first electrode comprises a nanostructured material.

An excellent positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery is provided that can increase low-temperature load characteristics of the battery as well as improving coatability. When measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry, the material meets Condition (A) and at least either Condition (B) or Condition (C).

Condition (A) : on a mercury intrusion curve, the mercury intrusion volume from 50 MPa to 150 MPa is 0.02 cm³/g or smaller.

Condition (B): on the mercury intrusion curve, the mercury intrusion volume from 50 MPa to 150 MPa is 0.01 cm³/g or larger. Condition (C): the average pore radius is within 10-100 nm, and the pore-size distribution curve has a main peak (with peak top at a pore radius of within 0.5-50 μm) and a sub peak (with peak top at a pore radius of within 80-300 nm).

The invention provides a multi-shell-layer metal oxide hollow ball and a preparation method thereof. A hydrothermal method is used for preparing a carbon ball template; metal salts are dissolved in carbon ball suspension liquid, and the gradient distribution, the depth and the number of metal salts entering carbon balls are controlled through regulating adsorption conditions such as metal salt concentration, solution pH value, soaking temperature and time and the like; and the heat treatment is carried out on the carbon balls adsorbing metal ions, and the multi-shell-layer metal oxide hollow ball can be obtained. The shell-layer of the hollow ball prepared by the method is formed by accumulating nanometer crystal particles of metal oxides, the shell layer number can be regulated and changed from two to four, and both the size of the hollow ball and the thickness of the shell layers are controllable. The method provided by the invention is simple and is easy to implement, the controllability is high, the pollution is little, the cost is low, and in addition, the general applicability is realized. The prepared product has a hollow structure and the shell layers with the thickness inthe nanometer level, simultaneously, the internal space can be effectively utilized through the multilayer structure, and the multi-shell-layer metal oxide hollow ball is applied to gas sensitivity and photocatalysis and has the more excellent performance through being compared with the traditional nanometer material and a single-layer hollow ball.

The present invention relates to a powderous electrode active material of lithium transition metal oxide LiaMbO2, wherein 0.9 < a < 1.1, 0.9 < b < 1.1 and M is dominantly transition metal chosen from Mn, Co and Nickel, having particles with a distribution of sizes, where the composition M varies with the size of the particles, and a preparation method thereof. The present invention also relates to an electrochemical cell, particularly rechargeable lithium battery, using the powderous electrode active material.

An electrode material for an anode of a rechargeable lithium battery, containing a particulate comprising an amorphous Sn.A.X alloy with a substantially non-stoichiometric ratio composition. For said formula Sn.A.X, A indicates at least one kind of an element selected from a group consisting of transition metal elements, X indicates at least one kind of an element selected from a group consisting of O, F, N, Mg, Ba, Sr, Ca, La, Ce, Si, Ge, C, P, B, Pb, Bi, Sb, Al, Ga, In, Tl, Zn, Be, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, As, Se, Te, Li and S, where the element X is not always necessary to be contained. The content of the constituent element Sn of the amorphous Sn.A.X alloy is Sn/(Sn+A+X)=20 to 80 atomic %. An electrode structural body for a rechargeable lithium battery, comprising said electrode material for an anode and a collector comprising a material incapable of being alloyed with lithium in electrochemical reaction, and a rechargeable lithium battery having an anode comprising said electrode structural body.

The invention discloses a preparation method of high-temperature-resistant aerogel. The method comprises: adding high-temperature-resistant powder or crystal whiskers to sol, performing in-situ compounding of sol and high-temperature-resistant powder or crystal whiskers, and performing aging, modification and drying to obtain high-temperature-resistant aerogel. The invention further discloses a preparation method of aerogel-type porous ceramics. Porous ceramics having an aerogel hole structure kept is obtained by sintering the high-temperature-resistant aerogel. The prepared high-temperature-resistant aerogel and aerogel-type porous ceramics can resist high temperature of 1000-1800 DEC C or more, keep the nanometer hole structure from collapse, have high porosity and strength and have hole diameters which can be adjusted from micropores to large holes. The aerogel and aerogel-type porous ceramics can be used as a super thermal insulation material and can be widely applied to fields of purification separation, adsorption, chemical industrial catalytic carriers, sound absorption and damping, sensing elements and electrochemistry. The method is simple and easy to carry out and suitable for massive production, and allows high temperature resistance of aerogel to be improved and application fields of aerogel to be broadened.

The invention provides a method for continuously synthesizing a precursor of a lithium ion battery positive material, relating to an improvement of a synthesis method of a nickle cobalt manganese termary positive material nickle cobalt lithium manganate of the lithium ion battery positive material. The method is characterized in that the synthesis process is as follows: merging a complexing agent ammonia, an aqueous solution of metal nickle cobalt manganese ions and a precipitator sodium hydroxide solution and then continuously adding the substances into a reaction kettle for a synthesis reaction under the strong stirring condition in the presence of protective gas; and aging, filtering and washing the effluent from the reaction kettle, and then drying to obtain the lithium ion battery positive material precursor spherical nickle cobalt manganese termary hydroxide. The method has the advantages that the preparation process is continuous, the particle size of the prepared nickle cobalt manganese compound hydroxide powder is controlled in a range of 5-20 microns, and the prepared nickle cobalt manganese compound hydroxide powder is even in distribution and excellent in electrochemistry property. The method has the advantages of high production efficiency, low production cost and significant economic and social benefits, and the energy is saved.

The present invention includes a method of producing a crystalline metal oxide nanostructure. The method comprises providing a metal salt solution and providing a basic solution; placing a porous membrane between the metal salt solution and the basic solution, wherein metal cations of the metal salt solution and hydroxide ions of the basic solution react, thereby producing a crystalline metal oxide nanostructure.

The invention relates to a processing method of stainless steel pickling waste liquid, which is characterized in that the processing method includes the steps that: neutral salt wastewater flows into a neutral reduction cell, and mixed acid pickling waste waters flow into a neutralizing tank; reducing agent is added into the neutral reduction cell, and then the reduced wastewater liquid is put into the neutralizing tank and is mixed with the adjusted mixed acid pickling waste waters, and liquid alkali is added into the neutralizing tank; the separated clear waste liquid removes fluorin ions in a settlement tank; neutralizing liquid is added into a final neutralizing tank to cause the pH value of treatment liquid to adjust to be neutralized wastewater liquid which passes through a sand filter to be discharged. The processing method has the advantages that metal ions and fluorin ions are performed the subsection treatment, and neutralizing agent is changed into the liquid alkali from lime cream, the requirement of reaching the standard of the waste liquid emission is not only achieved, but also the mud quantity produced by a mass of lime cream is greatly reduced, heavy metal mud of a retention pond only contains heavy metal compound, the salts of calcium fluoride and calcium sulphate, etc. are separated from the inclined plate settlement tank during the fluoridation stage, thereby the treatment cost is effectively lowered.

The invention relates to a lithium ion battery cathode material LiNixCoyM1-x-yO2 prepared from micron-sized single crystal particles and a preparation method thereof, wherein x is greater than 0 and is not more than 0.8, y is greater than 0 and is not more than 0.5, and M is one or two of Li, Mn, Al and Mg. The invention is characterized in that (1) composite oxide or hydroxide of transition metal nickel, transition metal cobalt and modified metal M is used as a raw material, the composite oxide or hydroxide is porous aggregate comprising nanocrystals, the average size of the aggregate is 2-50 micrometers, and the specific surface area of the aggregate is greater than 15m<2>/g (measured by BET method); (2) the composite metal oxide or hydroxide and lithium salts are milled in a ball mill, the micron-sized composite metal oxide or hydroxide is converted into nanocrystal particles to obtain a nano-sized mixed precursor of the composite metal oxide or hydroxide and the lithium salts, and the mixed precursor is sintered at uniform temperature to obtain the required lithium ion battery cathode material; and (3) the prepared lithium ion battery cathode material LiNixCoyM1-x-yO2 is basically prepared from micron-sized single crystal particles, and the average size of the single crystal particles is 2-20 micrometers. In addition, the product has excellent physical and electrochemical properties, such as ultra-low specific surface area, reasonable particle size distribution, good electrode processing properties, ultra-long cycle life, excellent rate capability, obvious high and low temperature cycling and storing properties and excellent safety; and the product can be widely used as a high-performance lithium ion battery cathode material. The invention provides the high-performance lithium ion battery cathode material and the preparation method thereof.