Lithium ion secondary battery having positive electrode active material particle with fluorine and phosphorous containing film, and method of manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10355269-B2
Application number	US-201614991338-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 8, 2016
Priority date	Jan 14, 2015
Publication date	Jul 16, 2019
Grant date	Jul 16, 2019

Abstract

A lithium ion secondary battery includes: a positive electrode sheet that includes a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material particle; a negative electrode sheet; and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution that contains a compound containing fluorine, wherein a surface of the positive electrode active material particle includes a film containing fluorine and phosphorus, and a ratio Cf/Cp satisfies 1.89≤Cf/Cp≤2.61 where Cf represents the number of fluorine atoms in the film, and Cp represents the number of phosphorus atoms in the film.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lithium ion secondary battery comprising:
a positive electrode sheet that includes a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material particle;
a negative electrode sheet; and
a nonaqueous electrolytic solution that contains a compound containing fluorine, wherein
a surface of the positive electrode active material particle includes a film containing fluorine and phosphorus,
a ratio Cf/Cp satisfies 1.89≤Cf/Cp≤2.61 where Cf represents the number of fluorine atoms in the film, and Cp represents the number of phosphorus atoms in the film,
a thickness α of the film satisfies 10 nm≤α≤15 nm,
the positive electrode active material particle is formed of a lithium nickel manganese composite oxide having a spinel-type crystal structure,
Mn—F molecular bonds are present between fluorine atoms of the film and manganese atoms on the surface of the positive electrode active material particle,
an amount β of Mn—F on the surface of the positive electrode active material particle measured by TOF-SIMS satisfies 8.2≤β≤8.7, and
the amount β of Mn—F is calculated from the expression: {(Secondary Ion Intensity of MnF 2 Component)/(Total Detection Intensity of All Secondary Ions Having Mass Number (m/z) of 110 or Less)}×100(%).

2. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein
the film includes:
an outer portion provided outside a center in a thickness direction of the film; and
an inner portion provided inside the center in the thickness direction of the film, and
a value of Cf1/Cp1 is larger than a value of Cf2/Cp2 where Cf1 represents the number of fluorine atoms in the inner portion, Cp1 represents the number of phosphorus atoms in the inner portion, Cf2 represents the number of fluorine atoms in the outer portion, and Cp2 represents the number of phosphorus atom in the outer portion.

3. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein a ratio Da/Db satisfies 1.1≤Da/Db≤1.2 where Da represents a mole fraction of lithium in the lithium nickel manganese composite oxide, and Db represents a mole fraction of a nickel manganese composite oxide portion excluding lithium in the lithium nickel manganese composite oxide.

4. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein
the compound containing fluorine is at least one fluoride compound selected from the group consisting of AgF, CoF 2 , CoF 3 , CuF, CuF 2 , FeF 2 , FeF 3 , LiF, MnF 2 , MnF 3 , SnF 2 , SnF 4 , TiF 3 , TiF 4 , and ZrF 4 .

5. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein
the nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes, in addition to the compound containing fluorine, a fluoride compound as an additive, and
the fluoride compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of AgF, CoF 2 , CoF 3 , CuF, CuF 2 , FeF 2 , FeF 3 , LiF, MnF 2 , MnF 3 , SnF 2 , SnF 4 , TiF 3 , TiF 4 , and ZrF 4 .

6. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 5 , wherein
the fluoride compound is of two or more selected from the group consisting of AgF, CoF 2 , CoF 3 , CuF, CuF 2 , FeF 2 , FeF 3 , LiF, MnF 2 , MnF 3 , SnF 2 , SnF 4 , TiF 3 , TiF 4 , and ZrF 4 .

7. A method of manufacturing a lithium ion secondary battery, the method comprising:
forming a first film on a surface of a positive electrode active material particle, the first film containing fluorine;
forming a positive electrode sheet that includes a positive electrode active material layer containing the positive electrode active material particle and a phosphorus compound after the forming of the first film;
constructing a battery by using the positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution after forming the positive electrode sheet, the nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing a compound containing fluorine; and
initial charging of the battery to form a second film containing phosphorus on the first film after constructing the battery, the first film and the second film forming a combined film, wherein
a ratio Cf/Cp satisfies 1.89≤Cf/Cp≤2.61, where Cf represents the number of fluorine atoms in the combined film, and Cp represents the number of phosphorus atoms in the combined film,
a thickness α of the combined film satisfies 10 nm≤α≤15 nm,
the positive electrode active material particle is formed of a lithium nickel manganese composite oxide having a spinel-type crystal structure,
Mn—F molecular bonds between manganese atoms on the surface of the positive electrode active material particle and fluorine atoms of the first film,
an amount β of Mn—F on the surface of the positive electrode active material particle measured by TOF-SIMS satisfies 8.2≤α≤8.7, and
the amount β of Mn—F is calculated from the expression: {(Secondary Ion Intensity of MnF 2 Component)/(Total Detection Intensity of All Secondary Ions Having Mass Number (m/z) of 110 or Less)}×100(%).

8. The method of manufacturing a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 7 , wherein
forming the first film includes exposing the positive electrode active material particle to an atmosphere containing at least one of fluorine gas and nitrogen trifluoride gas to form the first film.

9. The method of manufacturing a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 7 ,
wherein a ratio Da/Db satisfies 1.1≤Da/Db≤1.2 where Da represents an amount of lithium in the lithium nickel manganese composite oxide, and Db represents an amount of a nickel manganese composite oxide portion excluding lithium in the lithium nickel manganese composite oxide.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Miura Takashi
• Kitayoshi Masanori
• Yamazaki Nobuyuki

Classifications

• Y02T10/7011

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H01M2004/028

  Positive electrodes · CPC title

• H01M4/131

  Electrodes based on mixed oxides or hydroxides, or on mixtures of oxides or hydroxides, e.g. LiCoOx · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

  Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries · CPC title

• H01M10/0567

  characterised by the additives · CPC title