618 results about "Lithium-ion capacitor" patented technology

The present invention provides a multi-component hybrid electrode for use in an electrochemical super-hybrid energy storage device. The hybrid electrode contains at least a current collector, at least an intercalation electrode active material storing lithium inside interior or bulk thereof, and at least an intercalation-free electrode active material having a specific surface area no less than 100 m2 / g and storing lithium on a surface thereof, wherein the intercalation electrode active material and the intercalation-free electrode active material are in electronic contact with the current collector. The resulting super-hybrid cell exhibits exceptional high power and high energy density, and long-term cycling stability that cannot be achieved with conventional supercapacitors, lithium-ion capacitors, lithium-ion batteries, and lithium metal secondary batteries.

The present invention provides a battery or supercapacitor current collector which is prelithiated. The prelithiated current collector comprises: (a) an electrically conductive substrate having two opposed primary surfaces, and (b) a mixture layer of carbon (and / or other stabilizing element, such as B, Al, Ga, In, C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, Te, or a combination thereof) and lithium or lithium alloy coated on at least one of the primary surfaces, wherein lithium element is present in an amount of 1% to 99% by weight of the mixture layer. This current collector serves as an effective and safe lithium source for a wide variety of electrochemical energy storage cells, including the rechargeable lithium cell (e.g. lithium-metal, lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, lithium-air, lithium-graphene, lithium-carbon, and lithium-carbon nanotube cell) and the lithium ion based supercapacitor cell (e.g, symmetric ultracapacitor, asymmetric ultracapacitor, hybrid supercapacitor-battery, or lithium-ion capacitor).

The invention discloses lithium-enriched anti-perovskite sulfides and a solid electrolyte material. The general formula of the lithium-enriched anti-perovskite sulfides is (LimMn)3-xS1-y(XaYb)1-z, wherein m is more than 0 and less than or equal to 1, n is more than or equal to 0 and less than to 0.5, (m+n) is less than or equal to 1, a is more than 0 and less than or equal to 1, b is more than or equal to 0 and less than 1, (a+b) is less than or equal to 1, x is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.5, y is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.5, z is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.5 and x=2y+z; M is H, Na, K, Rb, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Y, La, Ti, Zr, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, C, Si, Ge, P, S or Se; and X is Fe, Cl, Br or I, and Y is a negative ion. The solid electrolyte material has high ion conductivity and thermal stability and a wide working temperature range, and can be applied to lithium ion batteries, rechargeable metal lithium batteries, lithium liquid flow batteries or lithium ion capacitors.

An energy storage device can include a cathode and an anode, where at least one of the cathode and the anode are made of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) composite binder material including PTFE and at least one of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a PVDF co-polymer, and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO). The energy storage device can be a lithium ion battery, a lithium ion capacitor, and / or any other lithium based energy storage device. The PTFE composite binder material can have a ratio of about 1:1 of PTFE to a non-PTFE component, such a PVDF, PVDF co-polymer and / or PEO.

An object is to suppress electrochemical decomposition of an electrolyte solution and the like at a negative electrode in a lithium ion battery or a lithium ion capacitor; thus, irreversible capacity is reduced, cycle performance is improved, or operating temperature range is extended. A negative electrode for a power storage device including a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer which is over the negative electrode current collector and includes a plurality of particles of a negative electrode active material, and a film covering part of the negative electrode active material. The film has an insulating property and lithium ion conductivity.

An energy storage stack of at least two surface-mediated cells (SMCs) internally connected in parallel or in series. The stack includes: (A) At least two SMC cells, each consisting of (i) a cathode comprising a porous cathode current collector and a cathode active material; (ii) a porous anode current collector; and (iii) a porous separator disposed between the cathode and the anode; (B) A lithium-containing electrolyte in physical contact with all the electrodes, wherein the cathode active material has a specific surface area no less than 100 m2 / g in direct physical contact with the electrolyte to receive lithium ions therefrom or to provide lithium ions thereto; and (C) A lithium source. This new-generation energy storage device exhibits the highest power densities of all energy storage devices, much higher than those of all the lithium ion batteries, lithium ion capacitors, and supercapacitors.

A lithium ion capacitor includes, as a lithium ion supply source, a lithium metal foil for batteries or capacitors. A current collector 4 and a separator 3 formed of a paper or resin nonwoven fabric are preliminarily pressure-bonded and integrated to opposite surfaces of a lithium metal foil 1 for batteries or capacitors.

Disclosed herein are an activated carbon in which pores with pore sizes of 0.3˜5 nm account for 80% or higher based on an overall pore volume, a method for preparing the activated carbon, and an electrochemical capacitor including the activated carbon, so that, since the activated carbon has uniform sized fine pores, high-rate discharge characteristics, high-rate charging and discharging characteristics, and low-temperature characteristics can be improved; since the content of functional groups on the surface of the activated carbon is low, there can be provided a supercapacitor and a lithium ion capacitor, having improved high voltage and lifespan characteristics; and the time for preparing an active material can be significantly shortened and thus the material cost and the process cost can be remarkably reduced.

A lithium ion capacitor having high energy density, high output density, high capacity and high safety is provided.A lithium ion capacitor comprising a positive electrode 1 made of a material capable of being reversibly doped with lithium ions and / or anions, a negative electrode 2 made of a material capable of being reversively doped with lithium ions, and an aprotic organic solution of a lithium salt as an electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode 1 and the negative electrode 2 are laminated or wound with a separator interposed between them, the area of the positive electrode 1 is smaller than the area of the negative electrode 2, and the face of the positive electrode 1 is substantially covered by the face of the negative electrode 2 when they are laminated or wound.

To improve the long-term cycle performance of a lithium-ion battery or a lithium-ion capacitor by minimizing the decomposition reaction of an electrolytic solution and the like as a side reaction of charge and discharge in the repeated charge and discharge cycles of the lithium-ion battery or the lithium-ion capacitor. A current collector and an active material layer over the current collector are included in an electrode for a power storage device. The active material layer includes a plurality of active material particles and silicon oxide. The surface of one of the active material particles has a region that is in contact with one of the other active material particles. The surface of the active material particle except the region is partly or entirely covered with the silicon oxide.

The invention discloses a lithium ion capacitor positive plate and lithium ion capacitor using the same. The lithium ion capacitor positive plate comprises an active material, a conductive agent, a bonding agent and a current collector, wherein the active material is a compound material composed of surface functionalized grapheme, a nanometer active grapheme material and grapheme / metal nitride, the current collector is a multi-hole current collector, the opening rate of the current collector is 30% to 50%, and lithium ions can freely penetrate through the current collector. The positive plate has the advantages of being high in specific surface area, high in absorption charge capacitance, good in electrical conductivity and capable of effectively improving energy density and power density of a lithium ion capacitor. The invention further discloses a lithium ion capacitor using the positive plate. The lithium ion capacitor comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a diaphragm, electrolyte solution and an auxiliary electroe capable of achieve the function of previously embedding lithium into the negative electrode.

The invention discloses a method for lithium pre-embedment of a negative electrode of a lithium ion capacitor. The method comprises the following steps that a lithium sheet, a first diaphragm, the negative electrode, a second diaphragm and a positive electrode are sequentially stacked and packaged in a shell and after an organic electrolyte with lithium salt is injected, the lithium ion capacitor is assembled; on the condition that the temperature ranges from -30 DEG C to 60 DEG C, the negative electrode is electrically connected with the lithium sheet, discharging is conducted for one hour to sixty hours, and lithium pre-embodiment of the negative electrode is achieved. According to the method for lithium pre-embedment of the negative electrode of the lithium ion capacitor, the negative electrode is electrically connected with the lithium sheet at the appropriate temperature, after discharging is conducted for one hour to sixty hours, the lithium sheet in the lithium ion capacitor can be slowly dissolved into the electrolyte to form lithium ions, so that the lithium ions are embedded in the negative electrode, lithium pre-embedment of the negative electrode is achieved, and the capacity of the obtained lithium ion capacitor is high. According to the method for lithium pre-embedment of the negative electrode of the lithium ion capacitor, it is only required that the electric connection mode of the negative electrode and the lithium sheet is controlled and the appropriate time and temperature are obtained, the lithium ion capacitor with the high capacity can be obtained, and the method has the advantages of being simple in operation process and the like.

A decomposition reaction of an electrolyte solution and the like caused as a side reaction of charge and discharge is minimized in repeated charge and discharge of a lithium ion battery or a lithium ion capacitor, and thus the lithium ion battery or the lithium ion capacitor can have long-term cycle performance. A negative electrode for a power storage device includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer which includes a plurality of particles of a negative electrode active material. Each of the particles of the negative electrode active material has an inorganic compound film containing a first inorganic compound on part of its surface. The negative electrode active material layer has a film in contact with an exposed part of the negative electrode active material and part of the inorganic compound film. The film contains an organic compound and a second inorganic compound.

The invention provides a novel lithium pre-embedding method of a lithium ion capacitor. The method comprises the following steps that (1) a battery cell is assembled, and is soaked into an organic solution containing lithium salts; (2) a positive electrode and a negative electrode are respectively connected with a charging and discharging test instrument, and once discharging after once charging is used as a cycle, 1 to 1000 times of cycles are totally carried out, and the lithium pre-embedding on the negative electrode is completed; (3) the battery cell after the lithium pre-embedding completion is taken out and is put into a packaging case, the packaging case is filled with electrolyte and is assembled into a lithium ion capacitor single body. When the method is adopted, the problem of too high cost due to lithium metal, porous current collectors and the like can be effectively solved, the safety can be improved, the technical flow process can be simplified, and the method is applicable to industrial production.

A powder material which can electrochemically store and release lithium ions rapidly in a large amount is provided. In addition, an electrode structure for an energy storage device which can provide a high energy density and a high power density and has a long life, and an energy storage device using the electrode structure are provided. In a powder material which can electrochemically store and release lithium ions, the surface of particles of one of silicon metal and tin metal and an alloy of any thereof is coated by an oxide including a transition metal element selected from the group consisting of W, Ti, Mo, Nb, and V as a main component. The electrode structure includes the powder material. The battery device includes a negative electrode having the electrode structure, a lithium ion conductor, and a positive electrode, and utilizes an oxidation reaction of lithium and a reduction reaction of lithium ion.

The invention relates to a cathode plate for a lithium-ion capacitor. The cathode plate comprises a current collector, a bottom coating and an upper coating. The bottom coating coats two sides of the current collector, and the upper coating coats the bottom coating. The bottom coating comprises a carbonaceous active material, a conductive agent and a binding agent I. The upper coating comprises stabilized lithium metal powder and a binding agent II. The invention further relates to a method for producing the cathode plate. The method is simple in production process, easy to operate on a large scale and capable of achieving pre-embedding without harsh environments; meanwhile, energy matching between the cathode plate and an activated-carbon anode plate of the lithium-ion capacitor is achieved easily by adjusting the coating thickness.

The invention provides a lithium ion capacitor and a negative electrode plate thereof and a manufacturing method of the negative electrode plate. The negative electrode plate of the lithium ion capacitor comprises a current collector copper foil, an active matter layer and a pre-lithiation matter layer, wherein the active matter layer is arranged on the current collector copper foil and provided with active matters having embedded and / or stripped from lithium ion performance, and the pre-lithiation matter layer is arranged on the active matter layer. The manufacturing method of the negative electrode plate of the lithium ion capacitor includes steps of coating active matter sizing on the current collector copper foil and drying and rolling the same; spraying or sputtering pre-lithiation sizing on the dried current collector copper foil coated with the active matter sizing, and drying and rolling to obtain the negative electrode plate of the lithium ion capacitor, wherein the active matter sizing contains the active matters embedded and / or stripped from lithium ion performance. The lithium ion capacitor comprises the negative electrode plate which is manufactured by the above manufacturing method. The lithium ion capacitor has the advantages that each layer of the negative electrode plate is good in lithium embedded uniformity and consistency, lithium embedding time is short, carrying a preset quantity of lithium by the negative electrode plate can be effectively controlled and the like.

The invention discloses a method for manufacturing a positive pole plate of a lithium-ion capacitor, comprising the following steps: 1) coating size containing super capacitor active materials on an aluminum foil current collector, and drying; 2) coating positive pole size of a lithium ion battery on the aluminum foil current collector containing super capacitor active materials; and 3) drying, cold pressing, drying again, cutting into pieces and stripping to prepare the positive pole plate of the lithium-ion capacitor. The method for manufacturing positive pole plates of lithium-ion capacitors is easily operated, overcomes the shortcomings of unstable size when the positive pole materials of the lithium ion battery and the active materials of the super capacitor active materials are mixed, and is easy for batch production. In addition, the invention also discloses the positive pole plate of a lithium-ion capacitor and the lithium-ion capacitor using the same.

The invention discloses low-temperature organic electrolyte taking gamma-butyrolactone as a base solvent and a preparation method thereof. The organic electrolyte comprises a solvent and lithium tetrafluoroborate (LiBF4), wherein the solvent is a mixture of cyclic gamma-butyrolactone, chain carbonic ester and chain carboxylic ester. The organic electrolyte is suitable to be used by a non-graphite-based cathode lithium ion capacitor, a non-graphite-based cathode lithium ion battery and a non-graphite-based cathode lithium ion system. Compared with the formula of the traditional electrolyte, the organic electrolyte greatly improves the low-temperature performance of an electrochemical device and prolongs the cyclic service life of the electrochemical device on the basis of ensuring the electrochemical performance, and meanwhile is favorable for the safety of the electrochemical device; and the formula of the electrolyte is suitable for the non-graphite-based cathode lithium ion capacitor, the non-graphite-based cathode lithium ion battery and the non-graphite-based cathode lithium ion capacitance battery.

A direct-current power source apparatus in which a lithium-ion capacitor unit is used as an electric storage system and which can fully utilize the lithium-ion capacitor unit and maintain the supply of electricity to a load is provided. An electric storage system includes a lithium-ion capacitor unit and a lead-acid battery connected in parallel with a load, and a voltage detecting section that detects the voltage of the lithium-ion capacitor unit. When the voltage detecting section detects that the voltage of the lithium-ion capacitor unit has reached a unit lower-limit voltage, a control circuit outputs a conduction signal for causing a switching circuit to get into a conductive state. When the switching circuit gets into a conductive state, the secondary battery supplies an electric power to a motor. At this time, the secondary battery charges the lithium-ion capacitor unit.

A lithium ion capacitor includes a positive electrode made of a material capable of reversibly doping and dedoping lithium ions and / or anions; a negative electrode made of a material capable of reversibly doping and dedoping lithium ions; and an electrolytic solution made of an aprotonic organic solvent electrolyte solution of a lithium salt. When the negative electrode and / or positive electrode and a lithium ion supply source are electrochemically brought into contact, lithium ions are doped in a negative electrode and / or positive electrode. A positive electrode potential after the positive electrode and negative electrode are short-circuited is 2.0 V (vs. Li / Li+) or less. The positive electrode and / or negative electrode has a current collector made of a metal foil that has many holes that penetrate through both sides and have an average diameter of inscribed circles of the through-holes of 100 μm or less.

A lithium-ion capacitor may include a cathode, an anode, a separator disposed between the cathode and the anode, a lithium composite material, and an electrolyte solution. The cathode and anode may be non-porous. The lithium composite material comprises a core of lithium metal and a coating of a complex lithium salt that encapsulates the core. In use, the complex lithium salt may dissolve into and constitute a portion of the electrolyte solution.

The invention provides an internally combined super capacitor which comprises an anode, a cathode, a diaphragm and electrolyte. The internally combined super capacitor is characterized in that the anode and the cathode are composed of active substances and perforated current collectors, the active substance of the anode is a mixture containing built-in lithium metal oxide and active carbon, and the active substance of the cathode is hard carbon. According to the internally combined super capacitor, through the energy storage potential matching technology of the anode and the cathode, the current collectors of the anode and the cathode respectively adopt perforated cathode foil and perforated copper foil, and electrochemical pre-doping of lithium ions is performed on the hard carbon of the cathode through a third electrode, so that the initial charged state of the hard carbon reaches 30% to 80%. According to such a finally obtained super capacitor battery, the characteristics of high specific power, long service life and quick charge of the super capacitor are kept, and the specific energy is greatly increased. Compared with a traditional lithium ion capacitor, the internally combined super capacitor has a great application prospect, and the characteristic of the super long cycle life is reserved. The working voltage of the internally combined super capacitor can reach 4.2 V, the specific energy can reach about 50 Wh / kg, the specific power can reach about 10, 000 W / kg, and the cycle life can reach 50, 000 times.

The present invention provides a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body in which the cell diameter of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is uneven in the thickness direction, and a current collector and an electrode respectively using the aluminum porous body, and a production method thereof. That is, such a sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body for a current collector has a cell diameter uneven in the thickness direction. Particularly, it is preferred that when a cross section in the thickness direction of the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body is divided into three regions of a region 1, a region 2 and a region 3 in this order, the average of the cell diameter in the region 1 and the cell diameter in the region 3 differs from the cell diameter in the region 2.

The present invention is directed to a method for pre-lithiation of negative electrodes during lithium loaded electrode manufacturing for use in lithium-ion capacitors. There is provided a system and method of manufacture of LIC electrodes using thin lithium film having holes therein, and in particular, to the process of manufacturing lithium loaded negative electrodes for lithium-ion capacitors by pre-lithiating electrodes with thin lithium metal films, wherein the thin lithium metal films include holes therein, and the lithium loaded negative electrodes are manufactured using a roll-to-roll lamination manufacturing process.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a lithium ion capacitor (LIC) adopting a pre-lithiation hard carbon negative electrode. Commercial activated carbon serves as a positive electrode, hard carbon serves as the negative electrode and 1M LiPF6 / EC+DEC serves as an electrolyte to assemble the LIC. The embedded lithium volume of the LIC is 400 mAh / g, the highest energy density and power density are 76.5 Wh / kg and 5.1 kW / kg respectively, and the energy keeping rate can still be as high as 92.0 percent after 1000 times of circulation. The energy density of the LIC after 15 hours of pre-lithiation can reach 97.2 Wh / kg, and small impedance and good circulation performance are achieved (after 1000 times of circulation at the current density of 1A / g, the energy keeping rate is 91.2 percent). When the mass proportion of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is 2.2, the energy keeping rate is 57.0 percent. Meanwhile, the LIC has quite small charge transfer internal resistance (10.4), and the maximum energy density and the maximum power density are 88.7 Wh / kg and 12 kW / kg.

Provided is a lithium ion capacitor. The lithium anode capacitor includes an anode including an anode active material layer including an anode current collector, first active material particles disposed on at least one surface of the anode current collector, and second active material particles disposed in pores between the first active material particles, increasing energy density of the lithium ion capacitor.

A lithium-ion capacitor excellent in durability, which has high energy density and high capacity retention ratio when the capacitor is charged and discharged at a high load, is disclosed. The lithium-ion capacitor includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an aprotic organic solvent of a lithium salt as an electrolyte solution. In the lithium-ion capacitor, a positive electrode active material allows lithium ions and / or anions to be doped thereinto and de-doped therefrom, and a negative electrode active material allows lithium ions to be doped thereinto and de-doped therefrom. At least one of the negative electrode and the positive electrode is pre-doped with lithium ions so that after the positive electrode and the negative electrode are shortcircuited, a potential of the positive electrode is 2 V (relative to Li / Li+) or lower. A thickness of a positive electrode layer of the positive electrode is within a range from 18 to 108 μm.

It is to provide a lithium ion capacitor having a high energy density, a high output density, a large capacity and high safety.A lithium ion capacitor comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an aprotic organic solvent solution of a lithium salt as an electrolytic solution, wherein a positive electrode active material is a material capable of reversibly supporting lithium ions and anions, a negative electrode active material is a material capable of reversibly supporting lithium ions, and the potentials of the positive electrode and the negative electrode are at most 2.0 V after the positive electrode and the negative electrode are short-circuited, characterized in that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are respectively made by forming electrode layers by the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material on both sides of a positive electrode current collector and a negative electrode current collector each having pores penetrating from the front surface to the back surface, the capacitor has such a cell structure that the positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound or laminated, and the outermost portion of the wound or laminated electrodes is the negative electrode.