Electrolyte and electrochemical device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10826124-B2
Application number	US-201716388216-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 18, 2017
Priority date	Jul 14, 2017
Publication date	Nov 3, 2020
Grant date	Nov 3, 2020

Abstract

An electrolyte and an electrochemical device, which relates to the field of energy storage materials. The electrolyte includes an additive A, an additive B and an additive C, the additive A selected from a group consisting of multi-cyano six-membered N-heterocyclic compounds represented by Formula I-1, Formula I-2 or Formula I-3, and combinations thereof, the additive B is at least one sulfonate compound, and the additive C is at least one halogenated cyclic carbonate compound. The electrochemical device includes the above electrolyte. The electrolyte of the present disclosure can effectively passivate the surface activity of the positive electrode material, inhibit the oxidation of the electrolyte, and effectively reduce gas production of a battery, meanwhile the electrolyte can be also adsorbed catalytically active of the graphite surface to form a more stable SEI film, thereby effectively reducing side reactions

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrolyte, comprising an additive A, an additive B and an additive C, wherein the additive A is selected from a group consisting of multi-cyano six-membered N-heterocyclic compounds represented by Formula I-1, Formula I-3, and combinations thereof:

wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are each independently selected from a group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 12 alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 12 amine group, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 12 alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 6 -C 26 aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted C 4 -C 12 heterocyclic group; the substituent for the above groups, if present, is independently selected from a group consisting of halogen, cyano, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxy, and combinations thereof; x, y and z are each an integer independently selected from 0-8; and m, n and k are each an integer independently selected from 0-2; preferably, m, n and k are each independently 1 or 2; wherein the additive B is at least one sulfonate compound selected from a group consisting of a sultone compound, a disulfonate compound, and combinations thereof; and wherein the additive C is at least one halogenated cyclic carbonate compound, and
wherein the additives A and B are independently are from 0.001% to 10% by weight of the electrolyte.

2. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein
R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are each independently selected from a group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 3 linear or branched alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 5 -C 7 cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 3 alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 3 amine group, substituted or unsubstituted C 2 -C 3 alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 2 -C 3 alkynyl, substituted or unsubstituted C 6 -C 8 aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted C 4 -C 7 heterocyclic group, wherein the substituent for the above groups, if present, is halogen.

3. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein
in Formula I-1, R 1 and R 3 are identical, and preferably, R 1 , R 3 and R 4 are identical; and
in Formula I-3, at least two of R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are identical.

4. The electrolyte according to claim 3 , wherein
in Formula I-1, R 1 and R 3 are hydrogen; and preferably, R 1 , R 3 and R 4 are hydrogen; and
in Formula I-3, at least two of R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are hydrogen.

5. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the multi-cyano six-membered N-heterocyclic compound represented by Formula I-1 is selected from a group consisting of the following compounds and combinations thereof:

the multi-cyano six-membered N-heterocyclic compound represented by Formula I-3 is selected from a group consisting of the following compounds and combinations thereof:

6. The electrolyte according to claim 1 ,
wherein the sultone compound is selected from a group consisting of compounds represented by Formula II-1, and combinations thereof,

wherein R 21 is selected from substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 6 alkylene, and substituted or unsubstituted C 2 -C 6 alkenylene, wherein the substituent for the above groups, if present, is halogen, C 1 -C 3 alkyl, or C 2 -C 4 alkenyl; and
wherein the disulfonate compound is selected from a group consisting of compounds represented by Formula II-2, and combinations thereof,

wherein R 22 , R 23 , R 24 and R 25 are each independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 10 alkyl, and substituted or unsubstituted C 2 -C 10 alkenyl, wherein the substituent for the above groups, if present, is halogen, C 1 -C 3 alkyl, or C 2 -C 4 alkenyl.

7. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one halogenated cyclic carbonate compound is selected from a group consisting of compounds represented by Formula III, and combinations thereof:

wherein R 31 is selected from alkenyl-substituted C 1 -C 6 alkylene, and substituted or unsubstituted C 2 -C 6 alkenylene, wherein the substituent for the above groups, if present, is selected from a group consisting of halogen, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, and combinations thereof.

8. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the additive C is from 0.1% to 10%, by weight of the electrolyte.

9. An electrochemical device, comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator positioned between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, and an electrolyte according to claim 1 .

10. The electrochemical device according to claim 9 , wherein the electrochemical device is a lithium-ion secondary battery, a lithium primary battery, or a lithium-ion capacitor.

11. The electrochemical device according to claim 9 , wherein the electrochemical device is a lithium-ion secondary battery, and the lithium-ion secondary battery has a charge cut-off voltage no less than 4.2V.

12. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the additive A is from 0.01% to 6%, by weight of the electrolyte.

13. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the additive A is from 0.1% to 3.5%, by weight of the electrolyte.

14. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the additive B is from 0.5% to 7%, by weight of the electrolyte.

15. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the additive B is from 1% to 4%, by weight of the electrolyte.

16. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the additive C is from 0.5% to 5%, by weight of the electrolyte.

17. The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the additive C is from 1% to 4%, by weight of the electrolyte.

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yi Tiancheng
• Hu Chunhua
• Jiang Yao
• Miao Lu
• Liang Chengdu

Classifications

• H01M2300/0025

  Organic electrolyte · CPC title

• H01G11/64 Primary

  characterised by additives · CPC title

• H01M10/0567 Primary

  characterised by the additives · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

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

• C07D317/34

  Oxygen atoms · CPC title