2279 results about "Lithium titanate" patented technology

The invention relates to a battery electrode material, in particular to a lithium titanate composite electrode material with surface coating layer; in the lithium titanate composite electrode material with surface coating layer, the electrode material is composed of lithium titanate particles and a coating layer coated with the surface of the lithium titanate particles; the particle size of the lithium titanate particles is 100nm-95mum, the average thickness of the surface coating layer is 0.2nm-5m, and the particle diameter of the composite electrode material is 0.1-100mum; the material of the surface coating layer is one or mixture of more than one kind of insulation oxide, insulation composite oxide, aluminium phosphate, magnesium phosphate, lithium fluoride, lithium phosphate or LiMPO4, wherein M is magnesium, ferrum, cobalt, nickel, chromium, titanium or vanadium; in the invention, by carrying out surface coating treatment to the surfaces of the existing lithium titanate particles, a layer of protective film is formed on the surface, so as to change the physical and chemical characteristics of the surface of the lithium titanate active material, the surface can not be reacted with electrolyte even if under overpotential condition, so as to avoid ballooning and ensure the capacity and the circularity of the battery not to be reduced.

The invention discloses an electrode material of composite lithium titanate and its preparation method, which is secondary particles with spherical or similar spherical shape and porous nanometer channels, which is made from lithium titanate particles, nano-carbon coated materials and doped modifier. The preparation method includes: milling the inorganic lithium salt, titanium dioxide, nano-carbon coated material or doped modifier, scattering them into the organic solvent for further drying, processing heat treatment, and cooling. Comparing with the existing technologies, this electrode material has the high-rate performance, highly reversible electrochemical capacity, and smaller surface area to enhance its first Coulomb efficiency and cycle stability, applying to rechargeable and once-use lithium-ion battery.

The invention provides for a high occupancy or heavy-duty vehicle with a battery propulsion power source, which may include lithium titanate batteries. The vehicle may be all-battery or may be a hybrid, and may have a composite body. The vehicle battery system may be housed within the floor of the vehicle and may have different groupings and arrangements.

The invention discloses a preparation method of carbon-coated lithium titanate used for a lithium ion battery; the method comprises the following steps: (1) lithium salt and titanium dioxide are weighted according to proportion, a dispersing agent is added, a ball milling method is used for mixing fully and then the obtained mixture is dried in vacuum, thus obtaining a precursor; (2) the obtained precursor is roasted for 8 to 20 hours at the temperature of 750 to 1000 DEG C so as to prepare lithium titanate; (3) carbon source materials are coated on the surface of the prepared lithium titanate by a dipping and steaming method; and (4) the lithium titanate coated with the carbon source materials is placed in a tubular furnace, and is roasted for 0.5 to 5 hours at the temperature of 750 to 1000 DEG C under the protection of inert gas so as to obtain the carbon-coated lithium titanate. The preparation method of the invention forms chemically coated carbon on the surface of the lithium titanate by the pyrolytic reaction of the carbon-coated materials, and the surface contact of the coated carbon and the lithium titanate material is more firm and tight, thus improving the electron conductivity of the materials greatly and enhancing the charge and discharge performance of magnification of the materials.

The invention relates to the field of negative electrode materials of lithium ion batteries, and specifically to a nanometer lithium titanate/graphene composite negative electrode material and a preparation process thereof. According to the invention, micron-sized lithium titanate prepared by the solid phase method is subjected to ultrafine ball milling to obtain nanometer powder, and the nanometer lithium titanate powder and graphene are uniformly compounded and subjected to heat treatment so as to obtain a high performance lithium ion battery negative electrode material; the invention is characterized in that uniform distribution of graphene in the nanometer lithium titanate powder is realized through in situ compounding; the weight of graphene in the composite negative electrode material accounts for 0.5 to 20%, and the weight of lithium titanate accounts for 80 to 99.5%. The lithium ion battery negative electrode material has good electrochemical performance, 1C capacity greater than 165 mAh/g, 30C capacity greater than 120 mAh/g and 50C capacity greater than 90 mAh/g. Nanometer lithium titanate in the lithium ion battery negative electrode material prepared in the invention has high phase purity; the preparation process of the material is simple and is easy for industrial production.

The invention discloses a lithium titanate-carbon composite nano-material, a preparation method thereof and application thereof. The method comprises the following steps: 1) statically spinning lithium titanate sol, or lithium titanate sol doped with a conductive substance or lithium titanate sol doped with metal ions to obtain a thin film, wherein the conductive substance is conductive metal or conductive carbon; and 2) heat treating the thin film in inert atmosphere to obtain the lithium titanate-carbon composite nano-material. The lithium titanate-carbon composite nano-material provided by the invention has a standard one-dimensional morphological structure, high crystallinity, high conductivity and high safety performance, and has high lithium ion diffusion speed and high electronic conductivity when applied as the cathode material of the lithium ion battery. Moreover, the lithium titanate-carbon composite nano-material has high charge/discharge capacity, excellent high-current charge/discharge performance and stable cycling performance. The 10c charge/discharge capacity is 125mAh/g, the 40C charge/discharge capacity reaches 95mAh/g, and the retention rate of the high-current 40C charge/discharge capacity within 3000 times reaches 85 percent.

An electroactive material for use in an electrochemical cell, like a lithium-ion battery, is provided. The electroactive material comprises lithium titanate oxide (LTO) and has a surface coating with a thickness of less than or equal to about 30 nm that suppresses formation of gases within the electrochemical cell. Methods for making such materials and using such materials to suppress gas formation in electrochemical cells are likewise provided.

An all-solid-state cell, which includes a lithium-containing anode, a cathode and a lithium ions-conducting solid-state electrolyte separator situated between the anode and the cathode. To improve the safety and cycle stability of the cell, the cathode includes a composite material including at least one lithium titanate and at least one lithium ions-conducting solid-state electrolyte. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding all-solid-state battery and a mobile or stationary system equipped with it.

This invention discloses a preparation method for spinel lithium titanate nm pipes/nm lines used in Li batteries and capacitors, which applies cheap industrial TiO2 as the raw material and supersonic chemical method to prepare said nm pipes/lines then takes them as the raw materials to be mixed with a certain quantity of soluble Li salt solution to be baked in air and by low-temperature hydrothermal ion exchange method to manufacture spinel lithium titanate nm pipes/lines with uniform shape, uniform diameter and even larger major diameter ratio and big ratio surface area.

The invention relates to a lithium-titanate composite negative pole material and a preparation method thereof. The lithium-titanate composite negative pole material provided by the invention comprises lithium titanate, doping elements and a graphene/carbon nanotube composite material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing a titanium source, a lithium source, soluble compounds of doping elements and the graphene/carbon nanotube composite material into a precursor by sol-gel in-situ synthesis, and calcining the precursor at 400-1100 DEG C to obtain the lithium-titanate composite negative pole material. The graphene/carbon nanotube composite material is utilized to effectively improve the electronic conductivity and rate capability of the lithium-titanate negative pole material; and the doping elements are introduced to effectively enhance the electrochemical properties and loop stability of the lithium-titanate negative pole material. The lithium-titanate negative pole material provided by the invention has wide application prospects in the field of lithium ion batteries.

The invention discloses a lithium-ion battery with fast charge property, which comprises an anode, a cathode, a diaphragm sandwiched between the anode and the cathode and an organic electrolyte, wherein, sub micrometer lithium titanate is used as the active substance of the cathode; one or several materials of lithium manganate (LiMn2O4), lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), lithium nickel cobalt oxide (LiNixCoyMzO2), ternary substance(LiNixMnxCo1-2xO2) are used as active materials of the anode, or a mixture of lithium cobalt (LiCoO2) and one of lithium manganate (LiMn2O4), lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), lithium nickel cobalt oxide (LiNixCoyMzO2), ternary substance(LiNixMnxCo1-2xO2) is adopted as the active materials of the anode; lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6) is adopted as the electrolyte, and a multicomponent mixture of ethylene carbonate (EC), dimethylcarbonate(DMC), Ethyl Methyl Carbonate (EMC) is used as a solution. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the lithium-ion battery with fast charged property. The lithium-ion battery of the invention has excellent fast charging and discharging performance.

The invention relates to a preparation method for a high-conductivity lithium titanate cathode material of a lithium battery, and belongs to the technical field of cathode materials of lithium ion batteries. Firstly, better lithium titanate crystals can be obtained by preparing pure spinel lithium titanate, and the conductivity of the lithium titanate material can be improved by carrying out carbon covering at a later stage; and secondly, a solid-phase sintering method with low cost is adopted for the contribution to commercial application, the initial charge specific capacity of the produced lithium titanate material at the rate of 1 C (1 C is 175 mA/g) can reach 160 mAh/g, and the capacity can keep more than 95% after 500 times of circulation.

The invention discloses a preparation method of aluminum-oxide-coated nano lithium titanate composite material, which comprises the steps of: adding aluminum salt solution into prepared Li4Ti5O12 suspending liquid under the stirring condition, wherein the adding quantity of the aluminum salt solution is in accordance with the molar ratio as follows: Ti: Al=5: x, and x=0.01-0.55; simultaneously, adding a right amount of ammonia water, and adjusting the pH value to be 8-10; stirring for reaction for 30-50 minutes, and standing still for about 6 hours; after filtering, washing and drying, obtaining precursor of the aluminum-oxide-coated nano lithium titanate composite material; and finally, sintering the obtained precursor of the aluminum-oxide-coated nano lithium titanate composite materialat 400-600 DEG C for 4-10 hours, naturally cooling to be room temperature, and obtaining the aluminum-oxide-coated nano lithium titanate composite material.

The invention discloses a preparation method for a three-dimensional porous graphene doping and coating lithium titanate composite anode material. The problem that a high ratio property of lithium titanate is poor can be solved by a doping vario-property of a carbon nano material to the lithium titanate, and the spinel structure of the lithium titanate can not be affected. A nano carbon layer made of the carbon nano material is doped in a carbon nano material doping lithium titanate composite material to have an effect of an electrical transmission cushion layer, so that a cyclic property of the carbon nano material doping lithium titanate composite material is improved, besides, an introduction of the carbon nano material can effectively restrain a gathering of lithium titanate particles in a heat treatment process, and simultaneously diffusion coefficients of lithium-ions in the carbon nano material doping lithium titanate composite material are increased. According to the preparation method for the three-dimensional porous graphene doping and coating lithium titanate composite anode material, the prepared three-dimensional porous grapheme has a high specific surface area, and thereby the high ratio property of the lithium titanate is further improved.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a graphene/lithium titanate composite anode material, which comprises the following steps: compounding compounds serving as a lithium source and a titanium source and graphene oxide through a liquid-phase method and reducing graphene oxide of the compound in inert gas mixed with reducing gas into graphene so as to obtain the graphene/lithium titanate composite anode material. The method has the characteristic of realizing uniform distribution of graphene in lithium titanate through an in-situ compounding technique. Under the same conditions, the discharge time of a hybrid capacitor which respectively takes the graphene/lithium titanate composite anode material and activated carbon as the anode and cathode is obviously greater than that of an electric double-layer capacitor which takes activated carbon as an electrode and that of a hybrid capacitor which respectively takes lithium titanate and activated carbon as the anode and cathode. The lithium titanate phase purity of a hybrid supercapacitor and lithium ion battery composite anode materials prepared by the method disclosed by the invention is higher. Furthermore, the preparation method further has the characteristic of easily realizing the large-scale industrial production.

An object is to improve characteristics of a power storage device. The present invention relates to an electricity storage device comprising a current collector and a negative electrode-active material layer formed over the current collector. The negative electrode-active material layer includes a negative electrode comprising a first negative electrode layer in contact with the current collector; a second negative electrode layer in contact with the first negative electrode layer, having a smaller capacitance than the first negative electrode layer and containing one material selected from a nitride of lithium and a transition metal represented by Li_aM_bN_z (M is a transition metal, 0.1≦a≦2.8, 0.2≦b≦1 and 0.6≦z≦1.4), a silicon material, and lithium titanate; a positive electrode that is paired with the negative electrode; and a solid electrolyte interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a carbon-coated sodium-micron-scale lithium titanate composite anode material. The method comprises steps as follows: lithium salt is dissolved in an aqueous solution of absolute ethyl alcohol, and the solution is marked a solution a; an organic titanium compound and a carbon source are dissolved in absolute ethyl alcohol, and the solution is marked a solution b; a chelating agent M is dissolved in absolute ethyl alcohol, ultrasonic dispersion is performed, and the solution is marked a solution c; the solution c is slowly dropwise added to the solution b while stirring, and white sol is obtained; then the solution a is slowly dropwise added to the white sol; after the sol is aged, heating, stirring, drying, grinding, sieving and calcination are performed, and the carbon-coated lithium titanate composite anode material is obtained. Lithium titanate has narrower particle size distribution and more uniform particle distribution, and sodium-micron-scale particles are uniformly inlaid to form particles with high tap density; the particle structure is loose and porous, the specific surface area of a formed electrode is larger, getting off of lithium ions in the lithium titanate material is facilitated, and the stability of the crystal structure of the lithium ions in the charge and discharge process is guaranteed.

The invention provides a preparation method of a lithium titanate negative electrode material with a micro-nanostructure. The method is characterized by comprising the steps of: a. preparing a titanium dioxide precursor; b. under a stirring state, adding the titanium dioxide precursor into water, or a mixed solution of water and ethanol, further adding lithium hydroxide under a stirring state, then transferring the solution into a hydrothermal reaction kettle to undergo a hydrothermal reaction, leaving the solution to natural cooling to room temperature, then carrying out filtering, washing, drying and calcination, thus obtaining the lithium titanate negative electrode material end product. The method adopts spherical titanium dioxide as an initial raw material, and takes water or ethanol as a reaction solvent to prepare plush-like hollow microspheres with an average diameter of 1.5-3 micrometers through a hydrothermal reaction and a calcination treatment. The microspheres are composed of nanosheets. The material also shows certain mesoporous characteristic, the inner micropores of the material have an average diameter of 5-15nm. The lithium titanate negative electrode material with a micro-nanostructure involved in the invention has the characteristic of excellent high-rate discharge, and is suitable for use by power batteries.

A method of manufacturing a lithium cell is disclosed. The method can include providing a lithium cell having an operating voltage range, where the lithium cell includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and an electrolyte in contact with, and between, the negative electrode and the positive electrode. The negative electrode can include lithium titanate and the electrolyte can include an additive. The method can also include reducing the additive to form a coating on a surface of the negative electrode in contact with the electrolyte. The reducing step can include overcharging the lithium cell to a voltage greater than an upper limit of the operating voltage range and dropping a voltage of the negative electrode to 0.2-1V vs. lithium.

The invention discloses lithium titanate for a lithium ion battery negative electrode material and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: mixing titanium dioxide with a lithium source in a molar ratio of 5:4.2; based on the total mass of the titanium dioxide and the lithium source, adding 5 to 15 percent of carbonaceous organic material and 2 to 5 percent of metal compound; adding alcohol or acetone into the mixture to stir into paste and ball-milling uniformly; drying the mixture and raising the temperature in air atmosphere to 600 to 750 DEG C at a rate of 3 to 5 DEG C per minute and preserving the heat for 6 to 12 hours; then raising the temperature to 800 to 900 DEG C and preserving the heat for 16 to 24 hours; and cooling the mixture to obtain doped lithium titanate Li4-xMxTi5O12, wherein M is metal Fe, Mg, Mn, Ag, Al, V, Sn or Cu; and x is less than or equal to 0.3 and more than or equal to 0.05. The lithium titanate can be used as the negative electrode material of the lithium ion battery, has the advantages of good rapid charge/discharge capacity, high safety performance, no pollution and excellent large-power charge/discharge performance, is suitable for industrialized production, and can be applied in the fields of electric automobiles, energy storage equipment and electric tools.