Mixed positive electrode active material, positive electrode comprising same, and secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10199641-B2
Application number	US-201515517641-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2015
Priority date	Dec 19, 2014
Publication date	Feb 5, 2019
Grant date	Feb 5, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a mixed positive electrode active material comprising a large-grain positive electrode active material with an average diameter of 10 μm or greater and a small-grain positive electrode active material with an average diameter of 5 μm or smaller, in which the large-grain positive electrode active material and the small-grain positive electrode active material are coated with different materials between lithium triborate and metal oxide, respectively.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mixed positive electrode active material, comprising:
a large-grain positive electrode active material having an average diameter of 10 μm or greater, and a small-grain positive electrode active material having an average diameter of 5 μm or less, wherein the large-grain positive electrode active material and the small-grain positive electrode active material are respectively coated with different coating materials, wherein one of the coating materials is lithium triborate and the other of the coating materials is a metal oxide.

2. The mixed positive electrode active material of claim 1 , wherein the metal oxide is at least one selected from the group consisting of magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, niobium oxide, titanium oxide, and tungsten oxide.

3. The mixed positive electrode active material of claim 1 , wherein a weight ratio between the large-grain positive electrode active material and the small-grain positive electrode active material is 5:5 to 8:2.

4. The mixed positive electrode active material of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the large-grain positive electrode active material and the small-grain positive electrode active material is lithium.nickel.manganese.cobalt complex oxide (NMC).

5. The mixed positive electrode active material of claim 4 , wherein the lithium.nickel.manganese.cobalt complex oxide is Li (1+δ) Mn x Ni y Co (1−x−y−z) M z O 2 (M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, W, Al, Si, Ga, Ge and Sn, and −0.15<δ<0.15, 0.1<x≤0.5, 0.6<x+y+z<1.0, 0≤z≤0.1).

6. A positive electrode, comprising:
an electrode current collector; and
a positive electrode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the electrode current collector and comprising the mixed positive electrode active material of claim 1 , a conductor, and a binder.

7. The positive electrode of claim 6 , wherein the conductor is at least one element selected from the group consisting of carbon, carbon black, acethylene black, ketjen black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black, thermal black, carbon fiber, metal fiber, fluorocarbon, aluminium powder, nickel powder, zinc oxide, potassium titanate and titanium oxide.

8. The positive electrode of claim 6 , wherein the binder is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyvinylidene fluoride, vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene copolymer (PVDF-co-HFP), polyvinyl alcohol, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), starch, hydroxyproylcellulose, regenerated cellulose, polyvinylpirrolidone, polytetrafluoroethylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene-propylene-diene ter polymer (EPDM), sulfonated EPDM, styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), fluorine rubber, polyacrylonitrile, and polymethylmetacrylate.

9. A secondary battery comprising the positive electrode of claim 6 .

10. The secondary battery of claim 9 , wherein the secondary battery is a lithium secondary battery.

11. The secondary battery of claim 9 , wherein the secondary battery has a driving voltage of 4.25 or greater.

Assignees

• Lg Chemical Ltd

Inventors

• Hong Yeon-Suk

Classifications

• H01M4/485

  of mixed oxides or hydroxides for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiTi2O4 or LiTi2OxFy (H01M4/505, H01M4/525 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01M4/626

  Metals · CPC title

• H01M4/48 Primary

  of inorganic oxides or hydroxides · CPC title

• H01M4/625

  Carbon or graphite · CPC title

• H01M4/525

  of mixed oxides or hydroxides containing iron, cobalt or nickel for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiNiO2, LiCoO2 or LiCoOxFy · CPC title