Electrochemical device and electronic device including same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12206114-B2
Application number	US-201916970789-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 25, 2019
Priority date	Dec 25, 2019
Publication date	Jan 21, 2025
Grant date	Jan 21, 2025

Abstract

An electrochemical device including a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte. The anode includes an anode active material layer, and the contact angle of the anode active material layer relative to a non-aqueous solvent is not greater than 60° as measured by a contact angle measurement. The electrochemical device has improved cycle performance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrochemical device, comprising: a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte; wherein the anode comprises an anode active material layer, wherein a contact angle of the anode active material layer relative to a non-aqueous solvent is not greater than 60° as measured by a contact angle measurement;
wherein a porosity of the anode active material layer is 10% to 60%;
wherein the electrolyte contains ethylene carbonate; and a content X mg of the ethylene carbonate in the electrolyte and a reaction area Y m 2 of the anode active material layer meet the following relation: 10≤(X/Y)<100.

2. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein a droplet diameter of the non-aqueous solvent on the anode active material layer is not greater than 30 mm as measured by the contact angle measurement.

3. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein the contact angle measurement means that after a 3-microliter droplet of diethyl carbonate is dropwise added to a surface of the anode active material layer, a contact angle of the droplet on the surface of the anode active material layer is tested within 100 seconds.

4. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer comprises a carbon material, the carbon material having at least one of the following features:
(a) a specific surface area of less than 5 m 2 /g;
(b) a median particle size of 5 μm to 30 μm.

5. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of artificial graphite, natural graphite, mesophase carbon microspheres, soft carbon, hard carbon, amorphous carbon, a silicon-containing material, a tin-containing material and an alloy material.

6. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer further comprises at least one metal selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, iron and copper; and based on the total weight of the anode active material layer, the content of the at least one metal is not greater than 0.05 wt %.

7. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer further comprises an auxiliary agent; the auxiliary agent having at least one of the following features:
(a) an oxidation potential of not less than 4.5 V, and a reduction potential of not greater than 0.5 V;
(b) a surface tension of not greater than 30 mN/m;
(c) the auxiliary agent comprises a nonionic surfactant; or
(d) based on the total weight of the anode active material layer, the content of the auxiliary agent is not greater than 3000 ppm.

8. The electrochemical device according to claim 7 , wherein the auxiliary agent comprises a nonionic surfactant; and the nonionic surfactant comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene ether, polyol ester, amide or block polyether; preferably the nonionic surfactant comprises at least one of the following: polyoxyethylene alkanolamide, octyl phenol polyoxyethylene ether, nonyl phenol polyoxyethylene ether, high carbon fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether, polyoxyethylene fatty acid ester, polyoxyethylene amine, alkanolamide, polyoxyethylene lauryl ether, C12-14 primary alcohol polyoxyethylene ether, C12-14 secondary alcohol polyoxyethylene ether, branched C13 Guerbet alcohol polyoxyethylene ether, branched C10 Guerbet alcohol polyoxyethylene, linear C10 alcohol polyoxyethylene ether, linear C8 octanol polyoxyethylene ether, linear C8 isooctanol polyoxyethylene ether, fatty acid monoglyceride, glycerin monostearate, fatty acid sorbitan ester, composite silicone polyether compound, polysorbate, polyoxyethylene fatty acid ester, polyoxyethylene fatty alcohol ether, polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer, polyether modified trisiloxane and polyether modified organosilicon polyether siloxane.

9. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolyte further contains a compound of Formula 1:

wherein R is a linear or non-linear alkyl having 1 to 5 carbon atoms or —SiR 2 R 3 R 4 , wherein R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are each independently alkyl having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and
R 1 is an alkylene having 2 to 3 carbon atoms and substituted with a substituent selected from: at least one fluorine atom or alkyl containing at least one fluorine atom and having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.

10. The electrochemical device according to claim 9 , wherein,
in the compound of Formula 1, R is —SiR 2 R 3 R 4 , and R 1 is alkylene having 2 carbon atoms and substituted with a substituent selected from: at least one fluorine atom or alkyl containing at least one fluorine atom and having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.

11. The electrochemical device according to claim 9 , wherein the compound of Formula 1 comprises at least one of the compounds represented by Formula 1a to Formula 1h:

12. The electrochemical device according to claim 7 , wherein, based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the content of the compound of Formula 1 is 0.001 wt % to 10 wt %.

13. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolyte further contains a difluorophosphate and an iron group element, the iron group element comprises a cobalt element, a nickel element or a combination thereof, and based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the content of the iron group element is not greater than 0.05 wt %.

14. An electronic device, comprising an electrochemical device; wherein, the electrochemical device comprises a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte; wherein the anode comprises an anode active material layer; wherein a contact angle of the anode active material layer relative to a non-aqueous solvent is not greater than 60° as measured by a contact angle measurement;
wherein a porosity of the anode active material layer is 10% to 60%;
wherein the electrolyte contains ethylene carbonate; and a content X mg of the ethylene carbonate in the electrolyte and a reaction area Y m2 of the anode active material layer meet the following relation: 10≤(X/Y)<100.

15. The electronic device according to claim 14 , wherein the anode active material layer comprises a carbon material; the carbon material having at least one of the following features:
(a) a specific surface area of less than 5 m 2 /g;
(b) a median particle size of 5 μm to 30 μm.

16. The electrochemical device according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer further comprises an auxiliary agent; the auxiliary agent having at least one of the following features:
(a) an oxidation potential of not less than 4.5 V, and a reduction potential of not greater than 0.5 V;
(b) a surface tension of not greater than 30 mN/m;

(c) the auxiliary agent comprises a nonionic surfactant is comprised;
(d) based on the total weight of the anode active material layer, the content of the auxiliary agent is not greater than 3000 ppm.

17. The electronic device according to claim 14 , wherein the electrolyte further contains a compound of Formula 1:

wherein R is linear or non-linear alkyl having 1 to 5 carbon atoms or —SiR 2 R 3 R 4 , wherein R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are each independently alkyl having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and
R 1 is alkylene having 2 to 3 carbon a

Assignees

• Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Kefei
• Dai Zhen
• Wang Yingying
• Zhou Feng

Classifications

• H01M2300/004

  Three solvents · CPC title

• H01M2004/027

  Negative electrodes · CPC title

• H01M2004/021

  Physical characteristics, e.g. porosity, surface area · CPC title

• H01M10/0569

  characterised by the solvents · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

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