1214 results about "Lithium cobalt oxide" patented technology

The disclosure describes nano-lithium-ion batteries having a cathode, an anode including lithium titanium oxide nanoparticles, a separator including silicon dioxide nanoparticles and an electrolyte. In a preferred embodiment, the cathode is composed of 70-95 wt % lithium cobalt oxide, 1-6 wt % of a conductive carbon, and a synthetic resin including at least one thermoplastic; the anode is composed of 75-90 wt % lithium titanium oxide nanoparticles, 1-5 wt % of a conductive carbon, and a synthetic resin including at least one thermoplastic; and the separator is composed of silicon dioxide nanoparticles and a synthetic resin comprising at least one thermoplastic. The disclosure also describes methods of manufacturing the nano-lithium-ion batteries.

The invention relates to a method for recovering and preparing lithium cobalt oxide by using a disused lithium battery, belonging to the technical field of recovery and recycle of electrode materials.The method comprises the steps of: discharging, disassembling, smashing, NMP processing and burning a disused lithium battery sequentially, to obtain a disused LiCoO2 material; ball-milling the disused LiCoO2 material and adding natural organic acid and hydrogen peroxide to obtain a solution of Li<+> and Co<2+>; adding lithium salt or cobalt salt after filtering, and then heating by water bath; dropwise adding ammonia water in the solution to prepare a xerogel; and performing secondary burning to obtain an electrode material of lithium cobalt oxide. The method has the advantages that the electrochemical properties of the electrode material of the disused lithium battery can be recycled with obvious effect as well as simple and easy operation; the natural organic acid used in the process of acid dipping has small damage to apparatus; and the method is environment friendly and efficient, and has low cost, simple technique, high recovery rate and industrialized promotion.

Asymmetric supercapacitors comprise: a positive electrode comprising a current collector and a first active material selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, silver oxide, iron sulfide, lithium manganese oxide, lithium cobalt oxide, lithium nickel oxide, lithium iron phosphate, and a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing active materials; a negative electrode comprising a carbonaceous active material; an aqueous electrolyte solution selected from the group consisting of aqueous solutions of hydroxides of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of carbonates of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of chlorides of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of sulfates of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of nitrates of alkali metals, and a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing aqueous solutions; and a separator plate. Alternatively, the electrolyte can be a non-aqueous ionic conducting electrolyte or a solid electrolyte.

The invention discloses a doped and surface coating co-modified anode material for a lithium ion battery and a preparation method thereof. The anode material uses doped lithium cobalt oxide as a matrix, the surface of which is coated with Co3(PO4)2, AlPO4, Mn3(PO4)2, FePO4, Ni3(PO4)2, Mg3(PO4)2 and other phosphates, therefore, the electric conductivity, the circulating performance, the high temperature and high pressure resistance and other performances are improved. The preparation method has the advantages that the coating material is uniformly coated on the surface of the anode material to be beneficial to improving the electrochemical performance; the method is simple to operate, is green and environment-friendly and has industrial applicability.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a spherical doped Al-Ni lithium cobalt oxide for lithium-ion battery. The preparation steps are that: first, sulfate, nitrate or chlorate of Al-Ni-Co react with strong alkali that is added with complex agent in liquid phase; the pH value, the temperature and the feeding speed of the reaction solution are controlled so as to produce a spherical precursor of Al-Ni-Co hydroxide; then the spherical precursor of Al-Ni-Co hydroxide is dried and evenly mixed with lithium hydroxide, lithium nitrate or lithium carbonate and dried; the obtained mixture is roasted into a spherical doped Al-Ni lithium cobalt oxide. The spherical doped Al-Ni lithium cobalt oxide has comparatively high tap density and remarkable cycle stability in the process of high-rate charge/discharge cycle, which improves over charge performance of Ni-Co substance and first obviously enhances charge/discharge efficiency; in addition, the preparation method of the spherical doped Al-Ni lithium cobalt oxide has the advantages of being simple, controllable and suitable for industrialized production with low energy consumption, high efficiency, short reaction time and low cost.

The invention provides a method for separating and recovering lithium and cobalt from a positive electrode material of a lithium battery. The method comprises the following: (1) a step of physical disassembly and alkaline leaching; (2) a step of roasting and washing, namely adding sulfate into a black solid material containing lithium cobalt oxide obtained in the step (1) in the weight ratio of the black solid material to the sulfate being 1:(0.8-1.2), mixing, roasting for 2 to 6 hours at a temperature of between 600 and 800 DEG C, cooling, adding a cleaning solution in terms of the ratio of solid to liquid being 1:(3-5) to wash, agitating for 1 to 2 hours at a temperature of between 60 and 80 DEG C and filtering to obtain Li<+>-containing filtrate and filter residue containing lithium and a small amount of cobalt; (3) a step of reducing and acid saluting; and (4) a step of extracting the cobalt to obtain pure Co2<+> solution. By the method, high recovery ratios of the metal lithium and the metal cobalt are achieved, the recovery ratio of the lithium is over 90 percent, the obtained lithium and the obtained cobalt have high purity, the content of the lithium mixed in the cobalt isgreatly reduced, and the purity of the cobalt can reach over 99.5 percent. Therefore, the method has higher economic benefits and social benefits.

The present invention discloses positive electrodes and their methods of fabrication. These electrodes are low in cost. Lithium rechargeable batteries that use these positive electrodes have excellent cycling properties at high temperature. The positive electrode of the embodiments of this invention comprises of a current collector coated by two layers of active materials for positive electrodes. The active material for the first layer of coating is one or more active materials selected from the following: spinel lithium manganese oxide, and spinel lithium manganese oxide derivatives. The active material for the second layer of coating is one or more active material selected from the following: lithium cobalt oxide, lithium cobalt oxide derivatives, lithium nickel oxide, and lithium nickel oxide derivatives. To fabricate these positive electrodes, a first layer of coating comprising of the active materials stated above is applied onto a current collector and then dried before a second layer of coating is applied onto the surface of the first layer of coating. The positive electrode is obtained after the current collector with the two layers of coating is dried a second time and then pressed to form a slice.

The invention relates to a high-density lithium cobalt oxide power material with a super-large grain diameter. The method comprises the steps of mixing a cobalt compound, a lithium compound or meanwhile a small amount of doping element compounds; sintering for 3 to 30 hours at the high temperature of 950 to 1,100 DEG C to form a block sintered product; crushing and grading the product to obtain the lithium cobalt oxide power material (molecular formula is LiaCo1-bMbO2), wherein, when b is not equal to 0, the middle diameter of the lithium cobalt oxide containing the doping elements is larger than or equal to 15 Mum, and the tap density is higher than or equal to 2.5g/cm<3>; when b is equal to 0, the middle diameter of the lithium cobalt oxide without the doping elements is larger than 20 Mum, and the tap density is higher than or equal to 2.6g/cm<3>. the 3.6V platform capacity rate of the material as the anode active substance for a lithium battery is higher than or equal to 75%; in the thermal impact test in a 150 DEG C thermotank, the lithium battery with the material is free from leakage and does not catch fire or explode for 60 minutes; the 1C5A specific capacity of the material in the battery is larger than or equal to 135mAh/g.

The invention relates to a method for directly roasting and treating spent lithium ion batteries and recycling valuable metals, in particular to a method for recycling and treating spent lithium ion batteries using lithium cobalt oxide as an anode material. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, remove organic binder on an organic diaphragm material and an electrode material in the batteries by roasting at a temperature of 500 DEG C to 850 DEG C; crushing and mixing the roasted battery material with sodium sulfate (or potassium sulfate) and concentrated sulfuric acid before size mixing; carrying out secondary heat treatment in an electric stove at a temperature of 350 DEG C to 600 DEG C to convert metals in the spent lithium ion batteries, such as cobalt, copper, lithium, and the like into easily water-soluble sulfate which is leached by water or a dilute sulphuric acid solution; then, using an organic extracting agent to respectively extract the cobalt and the copper from a leaching solution and obtain a cobalt product and a copper product; using sodium carbonate to precipitate the metal lithium from the leaching solution after the cobalt and the copper are removed; and enabling the leaching solution to return treatment heat so as to secondarily treat materials. The invention has a metal leaching rate higher than 99.5 percent and a metal recovery rate higher than 99 percent.

This invention relates to complex lithium metal oxides, which are cathode active materials of a lithium or lithium ion secondary battery with enhanced cycle life and safety, and a process for preparation thereof. The core particles are complex lithium metal oxides capable of absorbing, storing and emitting lithium ions, and a coating layer comprised of amorphous complex lithium cobalt oxides that are formed on the surface of the core particle, which is structurally stable and inactive with electrolytes. Because the amorphous complex lithium cobalt oxides are inactive with electrolytes, the oxides stabilize the surface structure of the complex lithium metal oxide and improve on high temperature storage properties, as well as safety and cycle life.

The invention relates to a method for recycling waste lithium cobalt oxide lithium ion battery. The method is characterized in that valuable components in the waste lithium ion battery are completely recycled by integrating the processes of crushing by a punch press, magnetic separation, eddy current selection, anaerobic atmospheric roasting, temperature-variable filtering and the like, and products with the relatively high additional values, such as elemental crude cobalt, lithium carbonate, graphite, copper, aluminum, iron, and plastics are obtained. Manners of crushing by a punch press, magnetic separation, eddy current selection and the like are adopted for performing material separation, so that the original physical properties of materials are kept. Meanwhile, positive powder and negative powder of an electrode material are cooperatively treated, the negative graphite material is effectively utilized, the in-situ preparation of a resource can be realized, and the waste lithium ion battery can be relatively completely recycled. The anaerobic atmospheric roasting is adopted, so that the reaction condition is relatively loose, the loss of a graphite material is reduced, the cost is saved, the technological flow is simplified, and the industrial application practice can be facilitated.

The invention discloses a high-capacity lithium cobalt oxide-base lithium ion battery anode material. The material is a lithium cobalt oxide finished product which is obtained by mixing modified lithium cobalt oxide in different granularities and coating the lithium cobalt oxide, the anode material contains a cobalt-source substance, a lithium-source substance, a doping agent and a coating material, wherein the molar ratio of Li to Co is 0.95 to 1.2, the doping quantity of the doping agent is 0.01 to 10 percent by weight, and the doping quantity of the coating material is 0.01 to 20 percent by weight. The capacity of the lithium cobalt oxide material is improved by mixing the lithium cobalt oxide in different granularities, the stability, safety and electrochemical property of the material under the high voltage condition of more than 4.2V are improved through doping and coating, and the high-temperature circulating property is improved.

The invention discloses a method for comprehensively recycling waste lithium ion batteries, and belongs to the field of recycling of regeneration resource. The method comprises the following steps: a, performing discharging processing on waste lithium ion batteries; b, fragmenting waste lithium ion batteries into sheets with a diameter of 10-20 mm in a closed shearing-type crusher, and spraying during fragmentation to dissolve lithium hexafluorophosphate in the waste lithium ion batteries into a spraying solution; c, peeling carbon powder on the surface of aluminium foils through stirring, dissolving electrolyte into the spraying solution, and recovering carbon powder; d, sending the sheets into a sodium hydroxide solution, peeling lithium cobalt oxide powder on the surface of aluminium foils through stirring, and recovering lithium cobalt oxide powder; e, cleaning the sheets, and recovering lithium cobalt oxide powder; and f, separating and recovering plastic and a copper-aluminium mixture. The method realizes recovery of carbon powder, lithium cobalt oxide powder, the copper-aluminium mixture and plastic through a simple environment-friendly process, and has certain economic benefit and social benefit.

The invention discloses a preparation method for spherical cobalt oxyhydroxide. Prepared spherical cobalt oxyhydroxide can be directly used as a raw material for preparation of lithium cobalt oxide. According to the invention, wet processing and doping of trace metal elements are adopted to improve related performance like cycle and voltage of the product; the method is simple and produces no pollution; and the product has the advantages of uniform distribution of doped elements, high density and a good sphericity degree.

The invention belongs to the technical field of a lithium ion battery, and particularly relates to a lithium ion battery and an anode material thereof. A nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary material with a suitable granularity and a lithium cobalt oxide anode material are selected and mixed, the ratio of the two materials is strictly controlled and the compound anode material after being mixed is subjected to cladding treatment, thereby acquiring the material with a greatly increased gram-capacity relative to pure lithium cobalt oxide, greatly increasing the space use ratio of an anode diaphragm and acquiring the anode diaphragm with a compaction density of over 4.0g/cm<3>. The compound anode material can be used for preparing the lithium ion battery with excellent electrochemical property, excellent safety performance and higher energy density, and meanwhile, the high-temperature memory property of the lithium ion battery is obviously improved and the circulating property is excellent.

The invention discloses a method for reclaiming and preparing lithium cobalt oxide from waste lithium ion batteries. The method is characterized in that the waste lithium batteries are disassembled and the shells are removed to select positive plates with the anode made of lithium cobalt oxide; the positive plates are crushed and screened to obtain minus sieve containing waste lithium cobalt oxide as the main component; in a constant-temperature resistance furnace, caking agent and conductive agent acetylene black in the minus sieve are removed in high temperature, sodium hydroxide is adopted to remove aluminum, and filtering, washing and drying are performed to obtain inactive lithium cobalt oxide containing little impurity; the content of lithium and cobalt is detected in the inactive lithium, then lithium carbonate with proper proportion is mixed in, at last, active lithium cobalt oxide battery material is synthesized by high-temperature agglomeration in a muffle furnace. Through the application of the method, the coefficient of recovery of cobalt in waste lithium ion batteries can reach more than 95.0 percent, and the coefficient of recovery of lithium can reach more than 97.0 percent.

The invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte cell having a high working voltage in a low temperature range of 0° C. or below and thereby attaining excellent low temperature discharge characteristics, a reduced internally-generated gas, and an excellent safety against heat. This is achieved by a cell comprising a non-aqueous electrolyte containing propylene carbonate and LiN(SO2C2F5)2 as an electrolyte salt, a graphite negative electrode, and a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material comprising a Ti-attached LiCoO2 in which a particle of titanium and/or titanium compound is attached on a surface of a particle of lithium cobalt oxide and a mole ratio of titanium and/or titanium compound in the Ti-attached LiCoO2 is within the range of from 0.00001 to 0.02.

The invention relates to the field of lithium ion battery materials and particularly relates to a preparation technology for spherical lithium cobalt oxide doped with Ti, Mg and Al. According to the preparation technology, pure water serves as base solution under the conditions that temperature ranges from 40 DEG C to 80 DEG C and a stirring speed is controlled to 60-180 r/min, ammonium bicarbonate is added into the base solution to adjust the alkalinity of the base solution to range from 5 to 30, cobalt-salt mixed solution and ammonium bicarbonate solution are continuously pumped into the base solution in parallel flow and are subjected to sedimentation reaction under the temperature of 40-80 DEG C, the solid content and the alkalinity of slurry in a reaction system are controlled, reaction feed liquid flows out continuously from an overflow gate at the upper part of a reaction kettle to enter into an ageing kettle and then is washed by a washing press and dried by a vacuum drier, spherical cobalt carbonate is subjected to primary calcination to obtain cobaltosic oxide, and the cobaltosic oxide and a lithium source are subjected to secondary calcination to obtain the spherical lithium cobalt oxide doped with Ti, Mg and Al. According to the invention, the process is simple, the reaction is easy to control, the production cost is low, the product application range is wide, and thus, the method is relatively large in production value; and the spherical lithium cobalt oxide is stable in performance and better in overcharging prevention performance.

The invention relates to a manufacture technology of a lithium ion battery cathode material and specifically provides a high density lithium ion battery cathode material lithium cobalt oxide and a preparation method thereof. The high density lithium ion battery cathode material lithium cobalt oxide of the invention has a chemical formula of Li1+xCo(1-a-b-c) MgaTibAlcFdO(2-d), wherein a, b, c, d and x satisfy relations of: 0<=a<=0.03, 0.001<=b<=0.02, 0<=c<=0.01, 0<=d<=0.02 and 0<=x<=0.08; and a preferable value of a, a preferable value of b, a preferable value of c and a preferable value of d satisfy relations of: 0.005<=a<=0.01, 0.002<=b<=0.01, 0<=c<=0.005 and 0<=d<=0.005; and a cation M is doped or cladded by one or a composition of several selected from magnesium, titanium and aluminium. The invention can enhance stability of material structure, cycle performance and safety performance of the lithium ion battery as well as effectively increase space utilization rate of the material and compacted density of the cathode material, thereby substantially raising volume energy density of the material.

The present invention provides a LiCoO₂-containing powder comprising LiCoO₂ having a stoichiometric composition via heat treatment of a lithium cobalt oxide and a lithium buffer material to make equilibrium of a lithium chemical potential therebetween: a lithium buffer material which acts as a Li acceptor or a Li donor to remove or supplement Li-excess or Li-deficiency, coexisting with a stoichiometric lithium metal oxide; and a method for preparing a LiCoO₂-containing powder. Further, provided is an electrode comprising the above-mentioned LiCoO₂-containing powder as an active material, and a rechargeable battery comprising the same electrode.

The present invention enables production of a LiCoO₂ electrode active material which has improved high-temperature storage properties and high-voltage cycling properties, and is robust in composition fluctuation in the production process. Therefore, the present invention provides advantages such as reduction of time and labor required for quality control and process management in the mass-production of the electrode active material, and decreased production costs of LiCoO₂.

The invention discloses a high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide cathode material for a lithium-ion battery and a preparation method of the high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide cathode material. The high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide cathode material is prepared from a doped lithium cobalt oxide matrix and a coating on the surface of the doped lithium cobalt oxide matrix, wherein a general formula of the doped lithium cobalt oxide matrix is Li<x>Co<1-y>M<y>O<2-z>N<z>; the general formula of the coating is LiNi<x'>Co<y'>Al<z'>O<2>; and the preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly, obtaining the lithium cobalt oxide matrix Li<x>Co<1-y>M<y>O<2-z>N<z> through once sintering; secondly, preparing a lithium cobalt oxide cathode material precursor coated with Ni<x'>Co<y'>Al<z'>(OH)<2> on the surface by liquid-phase co-precipitation reaction; and finally obtaining the high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide cathode material through twice sintering. The high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide cathode material prepared by the method is good in processability and high in compaction density, has relatively high specific capacity and good cycle performance in a high-voltage state, and can be stably circulated at high voltage of 3.0V to 4.5V.

The invention relates to a controllably-crushing recovery method and system of scrap batteries, comprising the following steps that: the scrap batteries are separated and classified to obtain a collection of lithium-ion batteries; the casings of the lithium-ion batteries are shelled by a scrap-battery rejuvenator to obtain a collection of lithium-ion battery content; the collected lithium-ion battery content is physically separated to obtain a collection of aluminium positive plates and positive active coatings on the positive plates; the aluminium positive plates and the positive active coatings on the positive plates are sent into a controllably-crushing device of scrap batteries and processed controllably-crushing to obtain a collection of mixture of aluminium granule and positive powder; the mixture of aluminium granule and positive powder is subtly sieved and separated to respectively obtain the aluminium granule and the positive powder. The invention has the advantages of greatly reducing environmental pollution of recovery process, less material-separating energy consumption, being close to 90% of intrinsic purity for the lithium cobalt oxide powder from recovery and facilitating economic running.

The invention discloses a high-voltage high-energy-density lithium ion battery which comprises a positive pole piece, a negative pole piece, a diaphragm, electrolyte and a shell, wherein the positive pole piece comprises a positive active material, a conducting agent, an adhesive and a current collector, and the weight percents of the positive active material, the conducting agent and the adhesion are 92 to 97%: 2 to 3.5%: 1 to 6%; the negative pole piece comprises a negative material, a conducting agent, an adhesive and a current collector, and the weight percents of the negative material, the conducting agent and the adhesive are respectively 90 to 96%, 1 to 5% and 4 to 10%; the lithium ion battery is prepared by adopting modified lithium cobalt oxides (LiCoO2) as the positive active material and the artificial graphite or natural graphite as the negative material and matching the corresponding ceramic diaphragm, high-voltage electrolyte, adhesive and conducting agent. The lithium ion battery not only has high energy density and high discharging platform, but also is good in chemical performance and safety performance and is applicable to the commercialized mass production.