Binder composition for secondary battery, negative electrode for secondary battery including the same, and lithium secondary battery including the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12412898-B2
Application number	US-202217970259-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2022
Priority date	Oct 21, 2021
Publication date	Sep 9, 2025
Grant date	Sep 9, 2025

Abstract

Provided are a binder composition for a secondary battery, a negative electrode including the same, and a secondary battery including the same. More particularly, the binder composition for a secondary battery having a three-dimensional structure, which is prepared by mixing a copolymer having specific repeating units and a polymer-type additive containing nitrogen (N) bonded to two or three carbons (C) in the repeating unit, has excellent mechanical properties and may effectively improve a binding force. The negative electrode and the secondary battery including the binder composition for a secondary battery effectively suppress expansion of a negative electrode to manufacture a secondary battery having excellent charge/discharge cycle characteristics and battery performance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A binder composition for a secondary battery, the binder composition comprising a copolymer and a polymer-type additive comprising nitrogen (N) bonded to two or three carbons (C) in the repeating unit,
wherein the copolymer comprises a repeating unit (a) of the following Chemical Formula 1, a repeating unit (b) of the following Chemical Formula 2, a repeating unit (c) of the following Chemical Formula 3, and a repeating unit (d) of the following Chemical Formula 4:

wherein
R 1 and R 3 are independently substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 1 to 10 carbon atoms;
R 2 and R 4 are independently hydrogen or substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 1 to 10 carbon atoms;
M n+ is a cation having an oxidation number of n except for a hydrogen ion; and
n is an integer of 1 to 3.

2. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the polymer-type additive is a polyalkyleneimine-based polymer or a polyvinylpyrrolidone-based polymer.

3. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the polymer-type additive is a branched polyalkyleneimine-based polymer.

4. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the polymer-type additive is a branched polyethyleneimine having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 50,000 g/mol.

5. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the polymer-type additive is comprised at 0.1 to 20 wt % with respect to the binder composition for a secondary battery.

6. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the copolymer has (a+b):(c+d) of 0.05 to 0.95:0.95 to 0.05, in which a, b, c, and d are mole fractions of the repeating units (a), (b), (c), and (d), respectively, in the copolymer.

7. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the copolymer satisfies the following Equation 1:
0.5<( b+d )/( a+b+c+d )<1.0  [Equation 1]

wherein
a, b, c, and d are mole fractions of the repeating units (a), (b), (c), and (d), respectively, in the copolymer.

8. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the copolymer is a linear polymer.

9. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 200,000 to 2,000,000 Da.

10. The binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the binder composition for a secondary battery is a binder composition for a lithium secondary battery negative electrode.

11. A secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode and a negative electrode for a secondary battery,
wherein the negative electrode for a secondary battery comprises a current collector; and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on the current collector, and the negative electrode active material layer comprises the binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 1 and a negative electrode active material.

12. The secondary battery of claim 11 , wherein the negative electrode active material comprises a silicon-based active material.

13. The secondary battery of claim 12 , wherein the negative electrode active material further comprises a graphite-based active material.

14. The secondary battery of claim 13 , wherein a mass ratio between the silicon-based active material and the graphite-based active material is 3 to 97:97 to 3.

15. The secondary battery of claim 11 , wherein the binder composition for a secondary battery is comprised at 0.5 to 30 wt % with respect to the negative electrode active material layer.

16. A method of preparing a binder composition for a secondary battery, the method comprising the steps of:
step (A) saponifying a copolymer comprising a repeating unit (a) of the following Chemical Formula 1 and a repeating unit (c) of the following Chemical Formula 3 to prepare a saponified copolymer; and
step (B) mixing the saponified copolymer and a polymer-type additive comprising nitrogen (N) bonded to two or three carbons (C) in the repeating unit,
wherein the saponified copolymer comprises the repeating unit (a) of the following Chemical Formula 1, a repeating unit (b) of the following Chemical Formula 2, the repeating unit (c) of the following Chemical Formula 3, and a repeating unit (d) of the following Chemical Formula 4:

wherein
R 1 and R 3 are independently substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 1 to 10 carbon atoms;
R 2 and R 4 are independently hydrogen or substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 1 to 10 carbon atoms;
M n+ is a cation having an oxidation number of n except for a hydrogen ion; and
n is an integer of 1 to 3.

17. The method of preparing a binder composition for a secondary battery of claim 16 , wherein a degree of saponification in step (A) is more than 0.5 and less than 1.0, and the degree of saponification is calculated by (b+d)/(a+b+c+d), in which a, b, c, and d are mole fractions of the repeating units (a), (b), (c), and (d) in the saponified copolymer.

Assignees

• Sk On Co Ltd

Inventors

• Seon Min Kyung
• Park Gwi Ok
• Yoo Seok Keun
• Lee Dong Gun
• Son Jun Soo
• Chung Ju Ho

Classifications

• 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

• H01M4/587

  for inserting or intercalating light metals · CPC title

• H01M4/386

  Silicon or alloys based on silicon · CPC title

• H01M4/364

  as mixtures · CPC title