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A porous lithium metal anode, its preparation and its application in lithium metal batteries

A lithium metal anode, porous metal technology, applied in lithium batteries, battery electrodes, non-aqueous electrolyte batteries, etc., can solve the problems of increasing the contact area between metal lithium and electrolyte, reducing electrode surface current density, interface side reactions, etc. The effect of reducing the apparent current density, suppressing the occurrence and continuous loss of metallic lithium, and stabilizing the cycle

Active Publication Date: 2021-06-29
GUANGDONG MIC POWER NEW ENERGY CO LTD
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Problems solved by technology

However, the 3D porous current collector is a double-edged sword. Its ultra-high specific surface area not only reduces the current density on the electrode surface, but also greatly increases the contact area between metal lithium and electrolyte.
A large contact area leads to a large number of interfacial side reactions, resulting in a large loss of active lithium.
Therefore, the current traditional 3D porous current collectors loaded with lithium metal are difficult to be truly applied in industry as anode materials for lithium metal batteries.

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[0055] Commercialized copper foam current collector ( figure 1 ) with a thickness of 40 μm, a porosity of 60%, and a pore spacing of 80 μm. The copper foam was placed in an oxygen-containing nitrogen atmosphere (oxygen content 20%), and sintered at 500 ° C for 1 hour to obtain a copper oxide-modified copper foam ( figure 2 ). This electrode is used as the working electrode, and the metal lithium sheet is used as the counter electrode, and 1M LiTFSI / DOL: DME (volume ratio = 1: 1) contains 1wt.% LiNO 3 Assemble the button battery for the electrolyte, and conduct a charge-discharge cycle test. At the same time, the corresponding charge-discharge cycle test was carried out with pure copper foam as the comparison sample.

[0056] The test found that the surface of the foamed copper was uniformly covered with a layer of dense copper oxide ( image 3 ), achieving uniform dendrite-free lithium deposition, effectively avoiding the occurrence of lithium dendrites and interfacial rea...

Embodiment 2

[0058] The commercial porous nickel-iron current collector has a thickness of 70 μm, a porosity of 40%, and a pore spacing of 120 μm. The porous nickel-iron is placed in an oxygen-containing argon atmosphere (oxygen content 30%) and sintered at 700 ° C for 2 h Porous nickel iron modified by oxide layer was obtained. This electrode is used as the working electrode, and the metal lithium sheet is used as the counter electrode, and 1M LiTFSI / DOL: DME (volume ratio = 1: 1) contains 1wt.% LiNO 3 Assemble the button battery for the electrolyte, and conduct a charge-discharge cycle test. At the same time, the corresponding charge-discharge cycle test was carried out with pure porous nickel-iron as the comparison sample.

[0059] The test found that the surface of porous nickel-iron is uniformly covered with a dense oxide layer. Especially at 5mA / cm 2 Under a certain current density, the cycle life of the oxidized porous nickel-iron electrode is more than 5 times that of the pure p...

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[0062] The copper oxide-modified foamed copper prepared in Example 1 was used as a working electrode, and then at 0.5mA / cm 2 At a current density of 5mAh / cm 2 Lithium metal is prepared into a composite anode material on the electrode, and then a lithium-sulfur battery is formed with a carbon nanotube positive electrode rich in S, containing 1wt.% LiNO in 1M LiTFSI / DOL:DME (volume ratio=1: 1) 3 In the electrolyte solution, the charge-discharge cycle test was carried out at 1C.

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Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of lithium metal batteries, and specifically discloses a porous lithium metal anode, comprising a porous metal current collector, a metal lithium layer compounded on the framework of the porous metal current collector, and a lithium oxide layer covering the surface of the metal lithium layer . The invention also discloses the preparation method of the porous lithium metal anode, the surface of the porous metal current collector is oxidized, and then metal lithium is filled into the surface oxidized porous metal current collector, and the replacement reaction is carried out to obtain the porous metal anode. Lithium metal anode. The invention also discloses the application of the porous lithium metal anode and the prepared lithium metal battery. In the present invention, the presence of the lithium oxide layer formed in situ reduces the direct contact between lithium metal and the electrolyte, effectively avoiding the occurrence of interfacial reactions, while maintaining the advantage of high specific surface area of ​​the porous metal current collector. At the same time, the good lithium affinity of the oxide layer is conducive to the stable transmission of lithium ions, and finally realizes the long cycle life of lithium metal batteries.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the field of energy storage, and in particular relates to the preparation and application of a porous lithium metal anode. Background technique [0002] The mechanism of action of the metal lithium anode in the battery is the deposition and dissolution of metal lithium, and its basic reflection formula is: [0003] Charging: Li + +e=Li; discharge: Li-e=Li + . What is different from the negative electrode of conventional lithium-ion batteries is the intercalation and extraction of lithium ions in the graphite negative electrode. [0004] With its ultra-high theoretical specific capacity (3860mAh / g) and the lowest electrode potential (-3.04 V), metallic lithium is regarded by more and more researchers as the most promising anode material for the next generation of lithium batteries. In this context, lithium-sulfur batteries and lithium-air batteries using metallic lithium as the anode have made great progress in recent years....

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): H01M4/13H01M4/139H01M10/052
CPCH01M4/13H01M4/139H01M10/052Y02E60/10
Inventor 赖延清洪波范海林段柏禹张治安张凯
Owner GUANGDONG MIC POWER NEW ENERGY CO LTD