Positive electrode active material and its preparation method, sodium ion battery and apparatus containing the sodium ion battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12438151-B2
Application number	US-202117371231-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 9, 2021
Priority date	Jan 11, 2019
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

The present application discloses a positive electrode active material and its preparation method, a sodium ion battery and an apparatus containing the sodium ion battery. The positive electrode active material satisfies a chemical formula Na2+xCuhMnkMlO7-y, wherein M is one or more selected from Li, B, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Ga, Sr, Y, Nb, Mo, Sn, Ba and W, 0≤x≤0.5, 0.1<h≤2, 1≤k≤3, 0≤l≤0.5, and 0≤y≤1, 2≤h+k+l≤3.5, and 0.57≤(2+x)/(h+k+l)≤0.9.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A positive electrode active material, satisfying a chemical formula Na 2+x Cu h Mn k M l O 7-y , wherein Mis one or more selected from Li, B, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Ga, Sr, Y, Nb, Mo, Sn, Ba and W, 0≤x≤0.5, 0.1<h≤2, 1≤k≤3, 0≤l≤0.5, and 0≤y≤1, 3.0≤h+k+l≤3.1, and 0.7≤(2+x)/(h+k+l)≤0.73, and
wherein the positive electrode active material has a powder resistivity of from 10 Ω·cm to 3kΩ·cm at a pressure of 12 MPa,
wherein the positive electrode active material has a specific surface area of from 0.01 m 2 /g to 3 m 2 /g; and,
wherein the positive electrode active material has a mean particle size D V 50 of from 7 μm to 25 μm.

2. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein in the chemical formula, 0.5≤h≤1.5, 1.5≤k≤2.5.

3. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein in the chemical formula, k/(h+l)≥1.4.

4. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the positive electrode active material is of a triclinic phase crystal structure or a hexagonal phase crystal structure.

5. The positive electrode active material according to claim 4 , wherein the positive electrode active material comprises a first diffraction peak at an X-ray diffraction angle 2θ of from 15.8° to 16.0° and a second diffraction peak at an X-ray diffraction angle 2θ of from 32.0° to 32.2°, and an intensity ratio of the first diffraction peak to the second diffraction peak is from 5 to 30, the first diffraction peak has a full width at half maxima of from 0.02° to 0.5°, and the second diffraction peak has a full width at half maxima of from 0.02° to 0.5°.

6. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein
the positive electrode active material has a tap density of from 0.5 g/cm 3 to 3.5 g/cm 3 ; and/or,
the positive electrode active material has a compaction density of from 2.5 g/cm 3 to 4.5 g/cm 3 at a pressure of 8 tons.

7. The positive electrode active material according to claim 1 , wherein the positive electrode active material has a first discharge voltage plateau of from 3.8V to 4.1V and a second discharge voltage plateau of from 3.4V to 3.7V.

8. The positive electrode active material according to claim 7 , wherein the positive electrode active material has a discharge capacity of Q 1 at the first discharge voltage plateau, a discharge capacity of Q 2 at the second discharge voltage plateau, and a full discharge capacity of Q, and Q 1 , Q 2 and Q satisfy:
30%≤( Q 1 +Q 2 )/ Q× 100%≤90%.

9. A method for preparing a positive electrode active material, comprising the following steps:
providing a mixed solution, wherein the mixed solution comprises copper salts and manganese salts, and salts containing an M element are present in the mixed solution in an amount of 0 or more;
adding a precipitant and a complexing agent into the mixed solution, and then subjecting it to coprecipitation to obtain a precursor; and
mixing the precursor and a sodium source to obtain a mixture and sintering the mixture to obtain the positive electrode active material,
wherein the positive electrode active material satisfies a chemical formula Na 2+x Cu h Mn k M l O 7-y , wherein M is one or more selected from of Li, B, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Ga, Sr, Y, Nb, Mo, Sn, Ba and W; 0≤x≤0.5, 0.1<h≤2, 1≤k≤3, 0≤l≤0.5, 0≤y≤1, 3.0≤h+k+l≤3.1, and 0.7≤(2+x)/(h+k+l)≤0.73, and
wherein the positive electrode active material has a powder resistivity of from 10 Ω·cm to 3 kΩ·cm at a pressure of 12 MPa,
wherein the positive electrode active material has a specific surface area of from 0.01 m 2 /g to 3 m 2 /g; and,
wherein the positive electrode active material has a mean particle size D V 50 of from 7 μm to 25 μm.

10. A sodium-ion battery, comprising a positive electrode plate, wherein the positive electrode plate comprises a positive electrode active material satisfying a chemical formula Na 2+x Cu h Mn k M l O 7-y , wherein M is one or more selected from Li, B, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Ga, Sr, Y, Nb, Mo, Sn, Ba and W, 0≤x≤0.5, 0.1<h≤2, 1≤k≤3, 0≤l≤0.5, and 0≤y≤1, 3.0≤h+k+l≤3.1, and 0.7≤(2+x)/(h+k+l)≤0.73, and
wherein the positive electrode active material has a powder resistivity of from 10 Ω·cm to 3kΩ·cm at a pressure of 12 MPa,
wherein the positive electrode active material has a specific surface area of from 0.01 m 2 /g to 3 m 2 /g; and,
wherein the positive electrode active material has a mean particle size D V 50 of from 7 μm to 25 μm.

11. The sodium-ion battery according to claim 10 , wherein in the chemical formula, 0.5≤h≤1.5, 1.5≤k≤2.5.

12. The sodium-ion battery according to claim 10 , wherein in the chemical formula, k/(h+l)≥1.4.

13. The sodium-ion battery according to claim 10 , wherein the positive electrode active material is of a triclinic phase crystal structure or a hexagonal phase crystal structure.

14. The sodium-ion battery according to claim 13 , wherein the positive electrode active material comprises a first diffraction peak at an X-ray diffraction angle 2θ of from 15.8° to 16.0° and a second diffraction peak at an X-ray diffraction angle 2θ of from 32.0° to 32.2°, and an intensity ratio of the first diffraction peak to the second diffraction peak is from 5 to 30, the first diffraction peak has a full width at half maxima of from 0.02° to 0.5°, and the second diffraction peak has a full width at half maxima of from 0.02° to 0.5°.

15. The sodium-ion battery according to claim 10 , wherein the positive electrode active material has a first discharge voltage plateau of from 3.8V to 4.1V and a second discharge voltage plateau of from 3.4V to 3.7V.

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Hong Kong Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Qian
• Guo Yongsheng
• Liang Chengdu
• Lin Wenguang

Classifications

• H01M2004/028

  Positive electrodes · CPC title

• H01M2004/021

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

• H01M10/054

  Accumulators with insertion or intercalation of metals other than lithium, e.g. with magnesium or aluminium · CPC title

• H01M4/525

  of mixed oxides or hydroxides containing iron, cobalt or nickel for inserting or intercalating light metals, e.g. LiNiO2, LiCoO2 or LiCoOxFy · CPC title

• H01M4/0471

  involving thermal treatment, e.g. firing, sintering, backing particulate active material, thermal decomposition, pyrolysis · CPC title