Electrolytic copper foil and electrode and lithium-ion cell comprising the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11050050-B1
Application number	US-202016837052-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Apr 1, 2020
Priority date	Jan 22, 2020
Publication date	Jun 29, 2021
Grant date	Jun 29, 2021

Abstract

Provided are an electrolytic copper foil, an electrode, and a lithium-ion cell. The electrolytic copper foil comprising copper and chloride is analyzed by TOF-SIMS along its thickness direction to obtain a spectrum of a relative depth ratio as X-axis and a relative intensity of chloride versus copper as Y-axis. There is a chloride peak located between 20% and 80% of the relative depth ratio in the spectrum, and the chloride peak is characterized by a maximum relative intensity of chloride versus copper ranging from 0.77% to 5.13% and a full width at half maximum ranging from 2.31% to 5.78%. With above characteristics, the electrolytic copper foil has low density of copper particles, low degree of warpage, and good coating uniformity of the active material applied thereon, thereby optimizing the efficiency of a lithium-ion cell comprising the electrolytic copper foil.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrolytic copper foil, comprising copper and chloride, the electrolytic copper foil analyzed by time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) along its thickness direction to obtain a TOF-SIMS spectrum of a relative depth ratio as X-axis and a relative intensity of chloride versus copper as Y-axis, the relative depth ratio being a ratio of an etch depth to the thickness of the electrolytic copper foil, and the relative intensity of chloride versus copper being a ratio of the intensity of the chloride to the intensity of the copper;
wherein a chloride peak is located between 20% and 80% of the relative depth ratio in the TOF-SIMS spectrum, and the chloride peak is characterized by a maximum relative intensity of chloride versus copper ranging from 0.77% to 5.13% and a full width at half maximum ranging from 2.31% to 5.78%.

2. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the maximum relative intensity of chloride versus copper of the chloride peak ranges from 0.77% to 4.70%.

3. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the full width at half maximum of the chloride peak ranges from 2.31% to 4%.

4. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry analysis is performed by using cesium ions (Cs + ) as a sputter ion source and applying an acceleration voltage of 2000 electron volts in an etch area of 250 μm*250 μm.

5. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry analysis is performed by using cesium ions (Cs + ) as a sputter ion source and applying an acceleration voltage of 2000 electron volts in an etch area of 250 μm*250 μm.

6. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry analysis is performed by using cesium ions (Cs + ) as a sputter ion source and applying an acceleration voltage of 2000 electron volts in an etch area of 250 μm*250 μm.

7. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a maximum height to a ten-point mean roughness (Ry/Rz) of a surface of the electrolytic copper foil ranges from 1.09 to 1.7.

8. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a ratio of a maximum height to a ten-point mean roughness (Ry/Rz) of a surface of the electrolytic copper foil ranges from 1.09 to 1.7.

9. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a ratio of a maximum height to a ten-point mean roughness (Ry/Rz) of a surface of the electrolytic copper foil ranges from 1.09 to 1.7.

10. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises substantially no roughening-treated layer.

11. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises substantially no roughening-treated layer.

12. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises substantially no roughening-treated layer.

13. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises copper particles on a surface thereof, a density of the copper particles of the surface of the electrolytic copper foil is less than or equal to 5 particles per square meter, and the particle size of the copper particles ranges from 5 micrometers to 100 micrometers.

14. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises copper particles on a surface thereof, a density of the copper particles of the surface of the electrolytic copper foil is less than or equal to 5 particles per square meter, and the particle size of the copper particles ranges from 5 micrometers to 100 micrometers.

15. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises copper particles on a surface thereof, a density of the copper particles of the surface of the electrolytic copper foil is less than or equal to 5 particles per square meter, and the particle size of the copper particles ranges from 5 micrometers to 100 micrometers.

16. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises copper particles on the surface thereof, a density of the copper particles of the surface of the electrolytic copper foil is less than or equal to 5 particles per square meter, and the particle size of the copper particles ranges from 5 micrometers to 100 micrometers.

17. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises copper particles on the surface thereof, a density of the copper particles of the surface of the electrolytic copper foil is less than or equal to 5 particles per square meter, and the particle size of the copper particles ranges from 5 micrometers to 100 micrometers.

18. The electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the electrolytic copper foil comprises copper particles on the surface thereof, a density of the copper particles of the surface of the electrolytic copper foil is less than or equal to 5 particles per square meter, and the particle size of the copper particles ranges from 5 micrometers to 100 micrometers.

19. An electrode of a lithium-ion cell, comprising the electrolytic copper foil as claimed in claim 1 .

20. A lithium-ion cell, comprising the electrode as claimed in claim 19 .

Assignees

• Chang Chun Petrochemical Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lai Ting-Chun
• Lai Yao-Sheng
• Chou Jui-Chang

Classifications

• H01M10/0525

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

• H01M4/661 Primary

  Metal or alloys, e.g. alloy coatings (H01M4/669 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01M4/13

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

• C25D1/04 Primary

  Wires; Strips; Foils · CPC title

• C25D7/0614

  Strips or foils · CPC title