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Positive electrode active material and secondary battery comprising the same

a positive electrode active material and secondary battery technology, applied in the direction of positive electrodes, cell components, cell components, etc., can solve the problems of poor thermal properties, low reserve of co, poor thermal properties, etc., and achieve excellent lifetime characteristics and charge/discharge characteristics, excellent capacity characteristics, and improved thermal stability

Active Publication Date: 2019-12-26
LG CHEM LTD
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Benefits of technology

The cathode active material with continuous concentration gradients enhances the battery's lifetime characteristics, charge / discharge efficiency, and thermostability, even at high temperatures, by maintaining stable metal distributions and preventing phase boundary changes, thus improving overall battery performance.

Problems solved by technology

The P-HEV battery is a battery having characteristics, which are nearly the characteristics of an electric vehicle, and the biggest challenge is to develop high-capacity batteries.
In particular, the biggest challenge is to develop cathode materials having higher tap density of 2.0 g / cc or more and high capacity characteristics of 230 mAh / g or more.
However, because Co has low reserves and is expensive and toxic to the human body, it is needed to develop other cathode materials.
Further, it has a defect of very poor thermal properties by unstable crystal structure by delithiation during discharging.
However, there is no satisfactory result yet.
Namely, LiNi1-xCoxO2 (x=0.1-0.3) material, wherein a part of the nickel is substituted with cobalt, shows excellent charge / discharge characteristics and lifetime characteristics, but the thermostability problem is not solved yet.
However, in this method, the metal composition of the cathode active material between the produced internal material and the external material is discontinuously changed, and is not continuously and gradually changed.
Further, the powder synthesized by the invention, which does not use ammonia as a chelating agent, was not suitable for a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery due to its lower tap density.

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[0252]In order to prepare a compound, wherein the Ni concentration is continuously decreased from the core to the surface, the Co and the Mn concentrations are continuously increased, a 2.4 M metal aqueous solution, prepared by mixing nickel sulfate and cobalt sulfate at the molar ratio of 80:20, as a metal salt aqueous solution for forming the core and a metal aqueous solution containing nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate at the molar ratio of 55:15:30 as a metal salt aqueous solution for forming the surface part were prepared.

[0253]Distilled water 4 L was put into a coprecipitation reactor (Capacity: 4 L, power of a rotation motor: 80 W); nitrogen gas was supplied to the reactor at the speed of 0.5 L / min so as to remove dissolved oxygen; and stirred at 1000 rpm while maintaining the temperature of the reactor at 50° C.

[0254]The metal salt aqueous solution for forming the core and the metal salt aqueous solution for forming the surface part were mixed a...

example 1-2 to example 1-5

[0256]The procedure of Example 1-1 was repeated except for mixing nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate of the metal salt aqueous solution for forming the core and the metal salt aqueous solution for forming the surface part at the molar ratio as listed in the following Table 1 so as to obtain an active material particle.

example 1-6

[0257]A cathode active material, which has the same composition with Examples 1-1 was prepared by using a batch reactor.

[0258]Distilled water 2.5 L was put into a coprecipitation batch reactor (Capacity: 8 L, power of a rotation motor: 180 W); nitrogen gas was supplied to the reactor at the speed of 0.6 L / min so as to remove dissolved oxygen; and stirred at 450 rpm while maintaining the temperature of the reactor at 50° C.

[0259]The metal salt aqueous solution for forming the core and the metal salt aqueous solution for forming the surface part having the same concentration with Example 1-3 were mixed at a certain ratio, and simultaneously supplied into the reactor at the rate of 0.2 L / hour. Further, 4.8 M ammonia solution was continuously supplied into the reactor at the rate of 0.1 L / hour. Further, for adjusting pH, 10 M NaOH aqueous solution was supplied to maintain pH in the reactor at 11. Then, the impeller speed of the reactor was controlled to 450 rpm, and the reaction solutio...

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Abstract

In the positive electrode active material according to the inventive concept, A positive active material for lithium secondary battery comprises a particle comprising M1, M2, and Li, wherein the particle comprises a center, a surface, and an intermediate portion between the center and the surface, wherein M1 and M2 are selected from transition metal and are different each other, and wherein concentrations of M1 and M2 have continuous concentration gradients from the center to the intermediate portion.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 463,170 filed Aug. 19, 2014, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 978,067 filed Oct. 8, 2013, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,926,860, which is a 371 of PCT / KR2011 / 010173 filed Dec. 27, 2011, which claimed the priority of KR Patent Application No. 10-2011-0000841 filed Jan. 5, 2011, KR Patent Application No. 10-2011-0021579 filed Mar. 10, 2011 and KR Patent Application No. 10-2011-0122542 filed Nov. 22, 2011, contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.[0002]This application is also a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 926,770 filed Oct. 29, 2015, which claims priority from Korean Patent Application No. 10-2014-0148503 filed on Oct. 29, 2014, and is a continuation-in-part of International Application Nos. PCT / KR2014 / 003809 and PCT / KR2014 / 003815 both filed on Apr. 29, 2014, which clai...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H01M4/36C01G53/00H01M4/525H01M4/505
CPCC01P2006/40C01P2002/88H01M4/364H01M2004/028C01G53/44H01M4/505C01P2002/85H01M4/525C01D15/02C01G53/00C01G53/006C01G53/42C01G53/50C01P2004/03C01P2004/61C01P2004/84C01P2004/88H01M4/131H01M4/1391H01M4/366H01M4/485Y02E60/10
Inventor SUN, YANG-KOOKNOH, HYUNG-JOOYOUN, SUNG-JUNE
Owner LG CHEM LTD