All-solid secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11289707-B2
Application number	US-201916550482-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 26, 2019
Priority date	Nov 14, 2018
Publication date	Mar 29, 2022
Grant date	Mar 29, 2022

Abstract

An all-solid secondary battery including: a cathode; an anode; and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the cathode includes a cathode active material, wherein the anode includes an anode current collector and an anode active material layer on the anode current collector, wherein the anode active material layer includes a binder and an anode active material that does not include an alkali metal, wherein the binder includes a polymer main chain and a polyvinyl alcohol-containing copolymer, and wherein the polymer main chain includes polyvinyl alcohol, a polyvinyl alcohol derivative, or a combination thereof, and the polyvinyl alcohol-containing copolymer has at least one repeating unit linked to the polymer main chain.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An all-solid secondary battery comprising:
a cathode;
an anode; and
a solid electrolyte interposed between the cathode and the anode,
wherein the cathode comprises a cathode active material,
wherein the anode comprises an anode current collector and an anode active material layer on the anode current collector,
wherein the anode active material layer comprises a binder and an anode active material,
wherein the binder comprises a polyvinyl alcohol copolymer represented by at least one of Formulae 1 to 3:

wherein, in Formulae 1 to 3,
a is an integer of 30 to 80,
b is an integer of 3 to 20,
c is an integer of 5 to 40, and
d is an integer of 5 to 30.

2. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein an amount of the binder is in a range of about 0.3 weight percent to about 15 weight percent, based on a total weight of the anode active material.

3. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the binder has a weight average molecular weight of about 10,000 Daltons to about 1,000,000 Daltons.

4. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein
wherein, in Formulae 1 to 3,
a is an integer of 50 to 60,
b is an integer of 5 to 8,
c is an integer of 16 to 20, and
d is an integer of 16 to 20.

5. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the anode active material comprises a material which forms an alloy or a compound with an alkali metal.

6. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the anode active material comprises amorphous carbon, gold, platinum, palladium, silicon, silver, aluminum, bismuth, tin, zinc, or a combination thereof.

7. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 6 , wherein the anode active material comprises amorphous carbon and gold, platinum, palladium, silicon, silver, aluminum, bismuth, tin, zinc, or a combination thereof.

8. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the anode active material does not comprise an alkali metal prior to a first charge or at a complete discharge of the all-solid secondary battery.

9. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the anode active material comprises particles having an average particle diameter of 4 micrometers or less.

10. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer has a thickness of about 1 micrometer to about 20 micrometers.

11. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , further comprising an alkali metal layer between the anode current collector and the anode active material layer.

12. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , further comprising a film comprising a material which forms an alloy with an alkali metal or a compound with an alkali metal, wherein the material is on the anode current collector, and
wherein the film is disposed between the anode current collector and the anode active material layer.

13. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 12 , wherein the material which forms an alloy with the alkali metal comprises silicon, magnesium, aluminum, lead, silver, tin, or a combination thereof.

14. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 12 , wherein the material which forms a compound with the alkali metal comprises carbon, titanium sulfide, iron sulfide, or a combination thereof.

15. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 12 , wherein the film has a thickness of about 1 nanometer to about 500 nanometers.

16. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 12 , wherein the alkali metal layer is on the anode active material layer after charging of the all-solid secondary battery.

17. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the anode active material comprises amorphous carbon and silicon, and
an alkali metal is on the anode active material and forms an alloy with the silicon during charge of the all-solid secondary battery.

18. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the solid electrolyte layer comprises a solid electrolyte comprising Li 2 S—P 2 S 5 , Li 2 S—P 2 S 5 —LiX where X is a halogen atom, Li 2 S—P 2 S 5 —Li 2 O, Li 2 S—P 2 S 5 —Li 2 O-LiI, Li 2 S—SiS 2 , Li 2 S—SiS 2 —LiI, Li 2 S—SiS 2 —LiBr, Li 2 S—SiS 2 —LiCl, Li 2 S—SiS 2 —B 2 S 3 —LiI, Li 2 S—SiS 2 —P 2 S 5 —LiI, Li 2 S—B 2 S 3 , Li 2 S—P 2 S 5 —Z m S n , where m and n are 1 to 6 and Z is Ge, Zn, or Ga, Li 2 S—GeS 2 , Li 2 S—SiS 2 —Li 3 PO 4 , Li 2 S—SiS 2 —Li p MO q , where p and q are 1 to 6 and M is P, Si, Ge, B, Al, Ga, or In, Li x M′ y PS z A w , where x, y, z, and w are each independently a number from 0 to 6, M′ is Ge, Sn, or Si, and A is F, Cl, Br, or I, Li 1+x Ti 2−x Al(PO 4 ) 3 , where 0≤x≤4, Li 1+x+y Al x Ti 2−x Si y P 3−y O 12 , where 0<x<2 and 0≤y<3, BaTiO 3 , Pb(Zr a Ti 1−a )O 3 wherein 0≤a≤2, Pb 1−x La x Zr 1−y Ti y O 3 , where 0≤x<1 and 0≤y<1, Pb(Mg 3 Nb 2/3 )O 3 —PbTiO 3 , HfO 2 , SrTiO 3 , SnO 2 , CeO 2 , Na 2 O, MgO, NiO, CaO, BaO, ZnO, ZrO 2 , Y 2 O 3 , Al 2 O 3 , TiO 2 , SiO 2 , Li 3 PO 4 , Li x Ti y (PO 4 ) 3 , where 0<x<2 and 0<y<3, Li x Al y Ti z (PO 4 ) 3 , where 0<x<2, 0<y<1, and 0<z<3, Li 1+x+y (Al a Ga 1−a ) x (Ti b Ge 1−b ) 2−x Si y P 3−y O 12 , where O≤x≤1 and 0≤y≤1, Li x La y TiO 3 where 0<x<2 and 0<y<3, Li 2 O, LiAlO 2 , Li 2 O—Al 2 O 3 —SiO 2 —P 2 O 5 —TiO 2 —GeO 2 , a Garnet ceramic, Li 3+x La 3 M 2 O 12 , where M is Te, Nb, or Zr, or a combination thereof.

19. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the solid electrolyte comprises a solid electrolyte of Li x M′ y PS z A w , where x, y, z, and w are each independently a number from 0 to 6, M′ is Ge, Sn, or Si, and A is F, Cl, Br, or I.

20. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the solid electrolyte further comprises a binder.

21. The all-solid secondary battery of claim 20 , wherein the binder of the solid electrolyte is the same as or different than the binder of the anode active material layer.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Samsung Sdi Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Yonggun
• Sugimoto Toshinori
• Ryu Saebom
• Aihara Yuichi
• Im Dongmin

Classifications

• H01M2300/0068

  inorganic · CPC title

• H01M4/133

  Electrodes based on carbonaceous material, e.g. graphite-intercalation compounds or CFx · CPC title

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title

• H01M4/1395

  of electrodes based on metals, Si or alloys · CPC title

• H01M4/382

  Lithium (H01M4/405 takes precedence) · CPC title