Battery Binder Composition for Adhesion-Handleability Balance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Battery components with functional layers in non-aqueous secondary batteries face challenges in achieving a balance between handleability and process adhesiveness, leading to issues like blocking during storage and transport, and sticking during roll pressing, which affects productivity.
Innovation Solution
A binder composition comprising polymer particles with a block polymer containing an aromatic vinyl monomer unit and a water-soluble polymer with a hydrophilic group, within specific molecular weight and content ranges, is used to form a functional layer that enhances both handleability and process adhesiveness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a binder composition is used to form a functional layer in battery components, then process adhesiveness is improved, but handleability deteriorates due to blocking during storage and transport
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the chemical parameters of the binder composition by specifying a particular polymer with a glass transition temperature of -50°C to -100°C and specific functional group content (0.1-10 mmol/g). This parameter optimization allows the binder to provide sufficient adhesion during processing while maintaining low tackiness at storage temperatures, thus resolving the contradiction between process adhesiveness and handleability
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses a composite binder system that combines a specific polymer matrix with functional groups (carboxyl, hydroxyl, or amine groups) and optionally incorporates inorganic particles or other polymers. This composite approach enhances adhesion to electrode materials and current collectors while the polymer selection prevents blocking, simultaneously achieving both process adhesiveness and handleability
2Reliability
If a binder composition is used to form a functional layer in battery components, then process adhesiveness is improved, but productivity deteriorates due to sticking during roll pressing
Solution Approach 1:
The invention optimizes the glass transition temperature parameter to a specific range (-50°C to -100°C) that prevents the binder from becoming too soft and sticky at processing temperatures. This parameter control ensures that the functional layer adheres properly during electrode formation but does not stick to rolls during pressing operations, thereby maintaining high productivity
Solution Approach 2:
The binder composition exhibits different properties at different temperature conditions: at room temperature it provides low stickiness for easy handling, while at processing temperatures it provides sufficient adhesion. This temperature-dependent local quality allows the same binder to prevent both blocking during storage and sticking during roll pressing, ensuring both handleability and productivity
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AI summary
Provided is a binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery with which it is possible to form a functional layer that can provide a battery component such as an electrode or a separator with a balance of excellent handleability and process adhesiveness. The binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery contains: polymer particles containing a block polymer including a block region composed of an aromatic vinyl monomer unit; a water-soluble polymer including a hydrophilic group; and water. The block polymer has a diblock content of not less than 0 mass % and not more than 60 mass %. The water-soluble polymer has a weight-average molecular weight of not less than 15,000 and not more than 500,000.