Conductor, power storage device, electronic device, and method for forming conductor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11699794-B2
Application number	US-202217731538-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2022
Priority date	Jun 25, 2015
Publication date	Jul 11, 2023
Grant date	Jul 11, 2023

Abstract

A novel electrode is provided. A novel power storage device is provided. A conductor having a sheet-like shape is provided. The conductor has a thickness of greater than or equal to 800 nm and less than or equal to 20 μm. The area of the conductor is greater than or equal to 25 mm2 and less than or equal to 10 m2. The conductor includes carbon and oxygen. The conductor includes carbon at a concentration of higher than 80 atomic % and oxygen at a concentration of higher than or equal to 2 atomic % and lower than or equal to 20 atomic %.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A current collector of a secondary battery, comprising:
a graphene compound;
wherein an interlayer distance between adjacent layers in the graphene compound is longer than or equal to 0.335 nm and shorter than or equal to 0.7 nm,
wherein the graphene compound comprises ions between the adjacent layers, and
wherein the ions between the adjacent layers in the graphene compound at least comprise lithium ions.

2. The current collector of a secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a proportion of carbon in the graphene compound is higher than 80% with respect to the whole conductor.

3. The current collector of a secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the graphene compound is greater than or equal to 800 nm and less than or equal to 20 μm.

4. The current collector of a secondary battery according to claim 1 , further comprising a region whose electrical conductivity is greater than or equal to 0.1 S/cm and less than or equal to 10 7 S/cm.

5. The current collector of a secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a length of one side of the graphene compound is greater than or equal to 50 nm and less than or equal to 100 μm.

6. The current collector of a secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the graphene compound at least comprises one of epoxy group, carboxy group, and hydroxyl group bonded to carbon.

7. The current collector of a secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the graphene compound is a graphene compound sheet.

8. The current collector of a secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the graphene compound is a reduced graphene compound.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Ochiai Teruaki
• Kawakami Takahiro
• Miwa Takuya

Classifications

• H01M4/131

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

• H01G11/38

  Carbon pastes or blends; Binders or additives therein · CPC title

• H01G11/36

  Nanostructures, e.g. nanofibres, nanotubes or fullerenes · CPC title

• H01M4/625

  Carbon or graphite · CPC title

• H01M4/663 Primary

  containing carbon or carbonaceous materials as conductive part, e.g. graphite, carbon fibres · CPC title