Negative electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery comprising same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12237496-B2
Application number	US-202017605057-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 16, 2020
Priority date	Apr 24, 2019
Publication date	Feb 25, 2025
Grant date	Feb 25, 2025

Abstract

The present invention relates a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery comprising same, wherein the negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery comprises a current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer including a first layer formed on the current collector and a second layer formed on the first layer, the first layer containing a first carbon-based negative electrode active material, and the second layer containing a second carbon-based negative electrode active material, wherein the degree of divergence (DD) value of the first layer is 30-90% of the DD value of the negative electrode active material layer, the DD value is defined by formula 1 below.

DD (Degree of Divergence)=( I a /I total )*100  [Formula 1]
(In formula 1, I a is the sum of peak intensities of peaks at out-of plane angles as measured by XRD with CuKα, and I total is the sum of peak intensities of peaks at all angles as measured by XRD with CuKα).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, the negative electrode comprising:
a current collector; and
a negative electrode active material layer including:
a first layer formed on two opposing major sides of the current collector and comprising a first carbon-based negative electrode active material, and
a second layer formed on the first layer on the two opposing major sides of the current collector, the second layer and comprising a second carbon-based negative electrode active material,

wherein:
a DD (Degree of Divergence) value of the first layer is 30% to 90% of a DD value of the negative electrode active material layer and,
the DD value is defined by Equation 1:
DD(Degree of Divergence)=( I a /I total )*100  [Equation 1]

In Equation 1,
I a is a sum of peak intensities at non-planar angles measured by XRD using a CuKα ray, and
I total is a sum of peak intensities at all angles measured by XRD using a CuKα ray.

2. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the DD value of the first layer is 70% to 90% of the DD value of the negative electrode active material layer.

3. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein a total thickness of the first layer disposed on the two opposing major sides is 80 μm to 800 μm.

4. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein a total thickness of the second layer disposed on the two opposing major sides is 20 μm to 200 μm.

5. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein a total thickness of the negative electrode active material layer disposed on the two opposing major sides is 100 μm to 1000 μm.

6. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein a total thickness of the first layer disposed on the two opposing major sides is 80% or less of a total thickness of the negative electrode active material layer disposed on the two opposing major sides.

7. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the DD value of the negative electrode active material layer is 19 to 60.

8. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the DD value of the first layer is 18 to 54.

9. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein:
the non-planar angles measured by XRD using a CuKα ray are 2θ=42.4±0.2°, 43.4±0.2°, 44.6±0.2°, and 77.5±0.2°, and
all the angles measured by XRD using a CuKα ray are 2θ=26.5±0.2°, 42.4±0.2°, 43.4±0.2°, 44.6±0.2°, 54.7±0.2°, and 77.5±0.2°.

10. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein each of I a and I total are a peak integral area value.

11. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the first carbon-based negative electrode active material or the second carbon-based negative electrode active material is artificial graphite or a mixture of artificial graphite and natural graphite.

12. The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the first layer or the second layer further includes a Si-based negative electrode active material, a Sn-based negative electrode active material, a lithium vanadium oxide, or a combination thereof.

13. A lithium secondary battery, comprising:
the negative electrode of claim 1 ;
a positive electrode; and
an electrolyte.

Assignees

• Samsung Sdi Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Jinhyon
• Kim Hongjeong
• Eom Hyeri
• Lee Sangjun
• Lim Daeseop

Classifications

• H01M2004/027

  Negative electrodes · CPC title

• H01M2004/021

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

• H01M10/0525

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

• H01M4/587 Primary

  for inserting or intercalating light metals · CPC title

• H01M4/485

  of mixed oxides or hydroxides for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiTi2O4 or LiTi2OxFy (H01M4/505, H01M4/525 take precedence) · CPC title