Negative electrode and secondary battery including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12255324-B2
Application number	US-202117775710-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2021
Priority date	Apr 22, 2020
Publication date	Mar 18, 2025
Grant date	Mar 18, 2025

Abstract

The present invention relates to a negative electrode including a negative electrode collector, a first negative electrode active material layer disposed on the negative electrode collector, and a second negative electrode active material layer disposed on the first negative electrode active material layer, wherein the second negative electrode active material layer includes a second negative electrode active material and a second conductive agent, wherein the second negative electrode active material includes a silicon-based active material, the silicon-based active material includes SiO x (0≤x<2), the second conductive agent includes a carbon nanotube structure in which 2 to 5,000 single-walled carbon nanotube units are bonded side by side, and the carbon nanotube structure is included in an amount of 0.01 wt % to 1.0 wt % in the second negative electrode active material layer, and a secondary battery including the same.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A negative electrode comprising a negative electrode collector, a first negative electrode active material layer disposed on the negative electrode collector, and a second negative electrode active material layer disposed on the first negative electrode active material layer,
wherein the second negative electrode active material layer comprises a second negative electrode active material and a second conductive agent,
wherein the second negative electrode active material comprises a silicon-based active material,
the silicon-based active material comprises SiO x (0≤x<2),
the second conductive agent comprises a carbon nanotube structure in which 2 to 5,000 single-walled carbon nanotube units are bonded side by side in a single plane, and
the carbon nanotube structure is included in an amount of 0.01 wt % to 1.0 wt % in the second negative electrode active material layer,
wherein in the carbon nanotube structure, the single-walled carbon nanotube unit has an average diameter of 0.5 nm to 10 nm, and
wherein the carbon nanotube structure has an average diameter of 10 nm to 100 nm.

2. The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the carbon nanotube structures are interconnected in the second negative electrode active material layer to form a network structure.

3. The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein, in the carbon nanotube structure, the single-walled carbon nanotube units are bonded in a state in which major axes of the single-walled carbon nanotube units are arranged parallel to each other.

4. The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the carbon nanotube structure has an average length of 1 μm to 500 μm.

5. The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the carbon nanotube structure has an average length of 2 μm to 50 μm.

6. The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the carbon nanotube structure is a carbon nanotube structure in which 2 to 50 single-walled carbon nanotube units are bonded to each other.

7. The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the first negative electrode active material layer comprises a first negative electrode active material and a first conductive agent, and
the first conductive agent comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of the carbon nanotube structure, a multi-walled carbon nanotube unit, graphene, and carbon black.

8. The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the first negative electrode active material layer has a thickness of 1 μm to 100 μm.

9. The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the second negative electrode active material layer has a thickness of 1 μm to 100 μm.

10. A secondary battery comprising the negative electrode of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Lg Energy Solution Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Tae Gon
• Sung Ki Won
• Baek Joo Yul
• Kwak Min

Classifications

• H01M4/134

  Electrodes based on metals, Si or alloys · CPC title

• H01M2004/027

  Negative electrodes · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

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

• H01M4/625

  Carbon or graphite · CPC title

• H01M4/386

  Silicon or alloys based on silicon · CPC title