Cathode material having an active component and a sodium salt dispersed in the active component, method for preparing the same, cathode and lithium ion battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11024872-B2
Application number	US-201816177074-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2018
Priority date	May 7, 2018
Publication date	Jun 1, 2021
Grant date	Jun 1, 2021

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a cathode material, a method for preparing the same, a cathode and lithium ion battery having the same. The cathode material includes an active component; and a sodium salt dispersed in the active component.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cathode material for a lithium ion battery, comprising:
an active component; and
a sodium salt dispersed in the active component;
wherein the sodium salt has a chemical structure of Na a M c O b , where 0<a≤3, 0<b≤7, 0<c≤3, and M comprises at least one element selected from the group of Mo, Cr, Ti and V.

2. The cathode material according to claim 1 , wherein the cathode material comprises an active component phase and a sodium salt phase, and the active component phase and the sodium salt phase are bonded via a chemical bond.

3. A cathode material, comprising:
an active component; and a sodium salt dispersed in the active component, wherein the cathode material comprises an active component phase and a sodium salt phase, and the active component phase and the sodium salt phase are bonded via a chemical bond and a transition region in which at least the active component phase and the sodium salt phase are doped with each other at an interface between the active component phase and the sodium salt phase.

4. The cathode material according to claim 2 , wherein the active component phase comprises a hexagonal layered structure, and the sodium salt phase comprises a layered structure.

5. The cathode material according to claim 1 , wherein based on a total mass of the cathode material, a mass percent of the sodium salt is in a range of 0.1% to 10%.

6. The cathode material according to claim 5 , wherein based on a total mass of the cathode material, the mass percent of the sodium salt is in a range of 1% to 5%.

7. The cathode material according to claim 1 , wherein the sodium salt comprises at least one selected from the group of Na 2 MoO 4 , Na 2 CrO 4 , Na 2 Ti 3 O 7 and Na 3 VO 4 .

8. The cathode material according to claim 1 , wherein the cathode material has an average particle size of 0.1 to 20 μm.

9. The cathode material according to claim 1 , wherein the active component comprises at least one selected from the group of lithium cobaltate, lithium nickel cobalt manganite composite oxide and lithium nickel cobalt aluminate composite oxide.

10. A lithium ion battery, comprising a cell and an electrolyte, wherein the cell comprises a cathode, an anode and a separator, and the cathode comprises a cathode material, wherein the cathode material comprises an active component; and a sodium salt dispersed in the active component, wherein the sodium salt has a chemical structure of Na a M c O b , where 0<a≤3, 0<b≤7, 0<c≤3, and M comprises at least one element selected from the group of Mo, Cr, Ti and V.

11. The lithium ion battery according to claim 10 , the sodium salt comprises at least one selected from the group of Na 2 MoO 4 , Na 2 CrO 4 , Na 2 Ti 3 O 7 and Na 3 VO 4 .

12. The lithium ion battery according to claim 10 , further comprising a cell and an electrolyte, wherein the cell comprises a cathode, an anode and a separator, and the cathode comprises the cathode material.

13. The lithium ion battery according to claim 10 , the cathode material comprises an active component phase and a sodium salt phase, and the active component phase and the sodium salt phase are bonded via a chemical bond.

14. The lithium ion battery according to claim 10 , wherein based on a total mass of the cathode material, the mass percent of the sodium salt is in a range of 0.1% to 10%.

Assignees

• Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Pengwei
• Wang Meng
• Xu Leimin
• Wang Liang

Classifications

• H01M10/0525 Primary

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

• H01M4/131

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

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title