Production method of negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and production method of negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11024838-B2
Application number	US-201716090850-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 3, 2017
Priority date	Apr 13, 2016
Publication date	Jun 1, 2021
Grant date	Jun 1, 2021

Abstract

A production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries containing particles of lithium-containing silicon compound includes: preparing particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5≤x≤1.6); obtaining particles of lithium-containing silicon compound by making the particle of silicon compound contact with a solution A that contains lithium and has an ether-based solvent as a solvent; and heating the particles of the lithium-containing silicon compound. A production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries is capable of increasing battery capacity of the negative electrode active material and capable of improving the first time efficiency and cycle characteristics.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries containing particles of lithium-containing silicon compound comprising:
preparing particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5≤x≤1.6);
obtaining particles of lithium-containing silicon compound by making the particle of silicon compound contact with a solution A that contains lithium and has an ether-based solvent as a solvent; and
heating the particles of the lithium-containing silicon compound,
wherein a solution that contains lithium, contains one or more kinds selected from biphenyl, terphenyl and derivatives thereof, and has an ether-based solvent as a solvent is used as the solution A.

2. The production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 1 , wherein forming a carbon coating film on the particles of silicon compound is provided before the obtaining the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound.

3. The production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 1 , wherein in the preparing the particles of silicon compound, the particles of silicon compound having a crystallite size of silicon of 3 nm or more and 10 nm or less are prepared.

4. The production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 1 , wherein in the obtaining the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound, a time of making contact with the solution A is set to 3 minutes or more.

5. The production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 1 , wherein in the heating, a maximum temperature is set to 150° C. or more and 800° C. or less.

6. The production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 1 , wherein a lithium content of the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound is set to 4% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less.

7. The production method of a negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 1 , wherein the heating is performed after the obtaining the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound without making the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound contact with moisture.

8. A production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries containing a negative electrode active material containing particles of lithium-containing silicon compound comprising:
forming a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material containing particles of silicon compound containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5≤x≤1.6);
obtaining a negative electrode containing particles of lithium-containing silicon compound by making particles of silicon compound contained in the negative electrode contact with a solution A that contains lithium and has an ether-based solvent as a solvent; and
heating the negative electrode containing the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound,
wherein a solution that contains lithium, contains one or more kinds selected from biphenyl, terphenyl and derivatives thereof, and has an ether-based solvent as a solvent is used as the solution A.

9. The production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 8 , wherein before the forming the negative electrode, forming a carbon coating film on a surface of the particle of silicon compound is provided.

10. The production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 8 , wherein in the forming the negative electrode, silicon having a crystallite size of 3 nm or more and 10 nm or less is used as the particles of silicon compound.

11. The production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 8 , wherein a time of making contact with the solution A is set to 3 minutes or more in the obtaining the negative electrode containing the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound.

12. The production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 8 , wherein the heating is performed at a heating temperature of 70° C. or more.

13. The production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 8 , wherein in the heating, a heating time is 30 minutes or more.

14. The production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 8 , wherein the heating step is a step performed under an inert gas atmosphere or an ambient atmosphere.

15. The production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 8 , wherein a lithium content of the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound is made to 4% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less by the obtaining a negative electrode containing the particles of lithium-containing silicon compound.

16. The production method of a negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries according to claim 8 , wherein the negative electrode that further contains a binder is formed in the forming the negative electrode.

Assignees

• Shinetsu Chemical Co

Inventors

• KAMO Hiromichi
• Hirose Takakazu
• Nishiura Katsunori
• Fang Nan

Classifications

• H01M4/405

  Alloys based on lithium · CPC title

• H01M2004/027

  Negative electrodes · CPC title

• H01M4/48 Primary

  of inorganic oxides or hydroxides · CPC title

• H01M4/382

  Lithium (H01M4/405 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01M4/0471

  involving thermal treatment, e.g. firing, sintering, backing particulate active material, thermal decomposition, pyrolysis · CPC title