Electrode active material, all solid fluoride ion battery, and method for producing electrode active material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11081697-B2
Application number	US-201815935747-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2018
Priority date	Apr 27, 2017
Publication date	Aug 3, 2021
Grant date	Aug 3, 2021

Abstract

An object of the present disclosure relates to an electrode active material that has excellent discharge capacity and is used in an all solid fluoride ion battery. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an electrode active material to be used in an all solid fluoride ion battery, the electrode active material comprising: an active material region that contains an active material component including a layered structure; and a coating region positioned in a surface side of the active material region; and a fluorine concentration in the coating region is higher than a fluorine concentration in the active material region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An all solid fluoride ion battery comprising: a cathode active material layer containing a cathode active material, an anode active material layer containing an anode active material, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer; wherein
the cathode active material or the anode active material is an electrode active material comprising:
an active material region that contains an active material component including a layered structure; and
a coating region positioned in a surface side of the active material region;
the electrode active material functions as an active material by intercalation and desorption of fluoride ions;
the active material component includes a layered Perovskite structure and a crystal phase represented by A n+1 B n O 3n+1−α F x , in which A includes at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkali earth metal element and a rare earth element, B includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Mn, Co, Ti, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, V, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Pd, W, Re, Bi, and Sb, n is 1 or 2, α satisfies 0≤α≤2, and x satisfies 0≤x≤2.2, and
wherein a fluorine concentration (atomic %) in the active material region is regarded as F1, and wherein a fluorine concentration (atomic %) in the coating region is regarded as F2, such that a fluorinating ratio F2/F1 is 1.5 or higher.

2. The all sold fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein A includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, and Gd.

3. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein A includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Sr and La, and
B includes at least Mn.

4. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorinating ratio F2/F1 is 2.5 or more.

5. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorinating ratio F2/F1 is from 1.5 to 4.

6. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorinating ratio F2/F1 is from 1.5 to 3.

7. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorinating ratio F2/F1 is from 2.5 to 4.

8. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorine content in the coating region is 25 atomic % or higher.

9. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorine content in the coating region is 30 atomic % or higher.

10. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorine content in the coating region is 40 atomic % or lower.

11. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorine content in the coating region is 35 atomic % or lower.

12. The all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the fluorine content in the coating region is 25 atomic % to 40 atomic %.

13. A method for producing the all solid fluoride ion battery according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
a fluorination treatment step in which an active material precursor including a layered structure is prepared, and the active material precursor is subjected to a fluorination treatment to form the active material region and the coating region.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Miki Hidenori

Classifications

• H01M4/13915

  containing halogen atoms, e.g. 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

• H01M4/1315 Primary

  containing halogen atoms, e.g. LiCoOxFy · CPC title

• H01M4/525

  of mixed oxides or hydroxides containing iron, cobalt or nickel for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiNiO2, LiCoO2 or LiCoOxFy · CPC title

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title