Positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, positive electrode for lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10535875-B2
Application number	US-201515518471-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 13, 2015
Priority date	Oct 15, 2014
Publication date	Jan 14, 2020
Grant date	Jan 14, 2020

Abstract

A positive electrode active material, which has a crystallite size α/crystallite size β ratio (α/β) of 1 to 1.75 or less, wherein the crystallite size α is within a peak region of 2θ=18.7±1° and the crystallite size β is within a peak region of 2θ=44.6±1°, each determined by a powder X-ray diffraction measurement using Cu-Kα ray, and has a composition represented by formula (I) below:

Li[Li x (Ni a Co b Mn c M d ) 1-x ]O 2   (I)

wherein 0≤x≤0.2, 0.3<a<0.7, 0<b<0.4, 0<c<0.4, 0≤d<0.1, a+b+c+d=1, and M is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Cr, Ti, Mg, Al and Zr.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A positive electrode active material, which has a crystallite size α/crystallite size β ratio (α/β) of 1 to 1.75, wherein the crystallite size α is within a peak region of 2θ=18.7±1° and the crystallite size β is within a peak region of 2θ=44.6±1°, each determined by a powder X-ray diffraction measurement using Cu-Kα ray, and has a composition represented by formula (I) below:
Li[Li x (Ni a Co b Mn c M d ) 1-x ]O 2   (I)

wherein 0≤x≤0.2, 0.3<a<0.7, 0<b<0.4, 0<c<0.4, 0≤d<0.1, a+b+c+d=1, M is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Cr, Ti, Mg, Al and Zr, and a, b and c in the formula (I) satisfy the following relationship: a>b+c.

2. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the crystallite size α/crystallite size β ratio (α/β) is 1 to 1.5.

3. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , which has a BET specific surface area of 0.5 m 2 /g to 4 m 2 /g.

4. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the crystallite size β is 150 Å to 650 Å.

5. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the average primary particle diameter is 0.05 μm to 1 μm, and the volume-based 50% cumulative particle size D 50 is 1 μm to 10 μm.

6. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio (D 90 /D 10 ) of volume-based 90% cumulative particle size D 90 to volume-based 10% cumulative particle size D 10 is in the range of from 2.0 to 3.5.

7. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , which has a tapped bulk density of 1.2 g/cc to 2.0 g/cc.

8. A positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery, comprising the positive electrode active material of claim 1 .

9. A lithium secondary battery, comprising the positive electrode of claim 8 .

10. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the average primary particle diameter is 0.05 μm to 0.5 μm.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Chemical Co
• Tanaka Chemical Corp

Inventors

• Takamori Kenji
• Kurita Hiroyuki
• Imanari Yuichiro
• Yamashita Daisuke
• Nakao Kimiyasu
• Doumae Kyousuke

Classifications

• C01G53/00

  Compounds of nickel · CPC title

• H01M2004/028

  Positive electrodes · CPC title

• H01M4/525 Primary

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

• H01M4/505

  of mixed oxides or hydroxides containing manganese for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiMn2O4 or LiMn2OxFy · CPC title

• C01P2004/54

  Particles characterised by their aspect ratio, i.e. the ratio of sizes in the longest to the shortest dimension · CPC title