Lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent and production method thereof, lithium-ion battery electrode plate and production method thereof, and lithium-ion battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11024873-B2
Application number	US-201816189432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2018
Priority date	May 12, 2016
Publication date	Jun 1, 2021
Grant date	Jun 1, 2021

Abstract

A lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent, including graphene and a first bonding agent grafted on a surface of the graphene, a production method for the conductive bonding agent, and an electrode plate and a lithium-ion battery that contain the conductive bonding agent, where the first bonding agent includes at least one of polyvinyl alcohol, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polylactic acid, polymethyl methacrylate, polystyrene, polyvinylidene fluoride, a hexafluoropropylene polymer, styrene-butadiene rubber, sodium alginate, starch, cyclodextrin, or polysaccharide. The lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent has good conductive performance and bonding performance and specific strength, improving mechanical strength of a whole electrode plate. The conductive bonding agent integrates a bonding agent and a conductive agent. This can improve content of active substance in the electrode plate, and further increase an energy density of an electrochemical cell.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent, comprising:
graphene;
a first bonding agent grafted on a surface of the graphene, wherein the first bonding agent comprises at least one of polyvinyl alcohol, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, polyethylene glycol, sodium alginate, starch, cyclodextrin, or polysaccharide; and
a second bonding agent grafted on the surface of the graphene and coupled to the first bonding agent using a chemical bond, wherein the second bonding agent comprises polyimide.

2. The lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent of claim 1 , wherein both carboxyl in the first bonding agent and carboxyl in the second bonding agent are alkali metal carboxyl.

3. The lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent of claim 1 , wherein a particle of the graphene has a thickness of 0.35 nanometers (nm) to 50 nm, and a D50 particle size ranging from 50 nm to 5000 nm.

4. The lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent of claim 1 , wherein the graphene comprises 0.1% to 10% of total mass of the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent.

5. The lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent of claim 1 , wherein the first bonding agent comprises 20% to 50% of total mass of the first bonding agent and the second bonding agent.

6. A lithium-ion battery electrode plate, comprising:
a current collector; and
an electrode active material and a lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent coated on the current collector, wherein the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent comprises:
graphene;
a first bonding agent grafted on a surface of the graphene and comprising at least one of polyvinyl alcohol, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, polyethylene glycol, sodium alginate, starch, cyclodextrin, or polysaccharide; and
a second bonding agent grafted on the surface of the graphene and coupled to the first bonding agent using a chemical bond, wherein the second bonding agent comprises polyimide.

7. The lithium-ion battery electrode plate of claim 6 , wherein the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent comprises 0.5% to 10% of total mass of the electrode active material and the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent.

8. The lithium-ion battery electrode plate of claim 6 , wherein carboxyl in the first bonding agent and carboxyl in the second bonding agent are alkali metal carboxyl.

9. The lithium-ion battery electrode plate of claim 6 , wherein a particle of the graphene has a thickness of 0.35 nanometers (nm) to 50 nm, and a D50 particle size ranging from 50 nm to 5000 nm.

10. The lithium-ion battery electrode plate of claim 9 , wherein the particle of the graphene has a thickness of 5 nm and the D50 particle size is 100 nm.

11. The lithium-ion battery electrode plate of claim 6 , wherein the graphene comprises a single-layer graphene or a multi-layer graphene.

12. The lithium-ion battery electrode plate of claim 6 , wherein the graphene comprises 0.1% to 10% of total mass of the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent.

13. The lithium-ion battery electrode plate of claim 6 , wherein the first bonding agent comprises 20% to 50% of total mass of the first bonding agent and the second bonding agent.

14. A lithium-ion battery, comprising a lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent, wherein the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent comprises:
graphene;
a first bonding agent grafted on a surface of the graphene and comprising at least one of polyvinyl alcohol, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polylactic acid, polymethyl methacrylate, polystyrene, polyvinylidene fluoride, a hexafluoropropylene polymer, styrene-butadiene rubber, sodium alginate, starch, cyclodextrin, or polysaccharide; and
a second bonding agent grafted on the surface of the graphene when the first bonding agent is at least one of the polyvinyl alcohol, the sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, the polyethylene glycol, the sodium alginate, the starch, the cyclodextrin, or the polysaccharide, wherein the second bonding agent is coupled to the first bonding agent using a chemical bond, and wherein the second bonding agent is at least one of polyacrylic acid or polyimide.

15. The lithium-ion battery of claim 14 , wherein carboxyl in the first bonding agent and carboxyl in the second bonding agent are alkali metal carboxyl.

16. The lithium-ion battery of claim 14 , wherein a particle of the graphene has a thickness of 0.35 nanometers (nm) to 50 nm, and a D50 particle size ranging from 50 nm to 5000 nm.

17. The lithium-ion battery of claim 16 , wherein the particle of the graphene has a thickness of 5 nm and the D50 particle size is 100 nm.

18. The lithium-ion battery of claim 14 , wherein the graphene comprises 0.1% to 10% of total mass of the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent.

19. The lithium-ion battery of claim 14 , wherein the graphene comprises a single-layer graphene or a multi-layer graphene.

20. A production method for a lithium-ion battery electrode plate, comprising:
preparing a current collector;
adding an electrode active material and a lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent to a solvent, wherein the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent comprises graphene, a first bonding agent grafted on a surface of the graphene, and a second bonding agent grafted on the surface of the graphene and coupled to the first bonding agent using a chemical bond, wherein the first bonding agent comprises at least one of polyvinyl alcohol, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polylactic acid, polymethyl methacrylate, polystyrene, polyvinylidene fluoride, a hexafluoropropylene polymer, styrene butadiene rubber, sodium alginate, starch, cyclodextrin, or polysaccharide, and wherein the second bonding agent comprises polyimide;
mixing the electrode active material and the lithium-ion battery conductive bonding agent with the solvent uniformly to obtain a slurry;
coating the current collector with the slurry;
drying the current collector; and
pressing to obtain the lithium-ion battery electrode plate.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Zhiyong
• Xia Shengan
• Wang Pinghua

Classifications

• H01M4/622 Primary

  being polymers · CPC title

• H01M4/13

  Electrodes for accumulators with non-aqueous electrolyte, e.g. for lithium-accumulators; Processes of manufacture thereof · CPC title

• H01M10/0525 Primary

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

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title

• H01M4/621

  Binders · CPC title