Core-shell composite negative electrode material, preparation method therefor and use thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12494481-B2
Application number	US-202017286435-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2020
Priority date	May 16, 2019
Publication date	Dec 9, 2025
Grant date	Dec 9, 2025

Abstract

A core-shell composite negative electrode material is made according to a preparation method and includes an application thereof. The composite negative electrode material includes: a core formed by a first active substance and a second active substance, and a carbon-coated shell serving as a third active substance. The first active substance is a sheet-like silicon-based material, the second active substance is a sheet-like graphite material, and the third substance is the carbon-coated shell. The composite material is applied to the negative electrode of a lithium ion battery, and has high specific capacity, wherein the capacity is greater than 400 mAh/g, and excellent cycle life.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A core-shell type composite negative electrode material, wherein the core-shell type composite negative electrode material comprises:
an inner core which is formed of a first active substance and a second active substance, and a carbon coating outer shell acting as a third active substance, wherein the first active substance is a sheet-like silicon-based material, and the second active substance is a sheet-like graphite material; and wherein an aspect ratio of a particle of the sheet-like graphite material is larger than 2 and less than or equal to 120, wherein an aspect ratio of a particle of the sheet-like silicon-based material is larger than 15 and less than or equal to 100, the aspect ratio of the particle is a ratio of maximum linearity to minimum linearity of the particle, wherein the maximum linearity of a sheet-like material is a maximum length of a two-dimensional plane of the sheet-like material, and the minimum linearity is a thickness of the sheet-like material; wherein the first active substance is a mixture of Si and SiO x in a mass ratio of 0.01-100, wherein 0.5≤x≤1.5, a median particle size of Si is 10-300 nm, a median particle size of SiO x is 150-5000 nm, and the median particle size of Si is smaller than the median particle size of SiO x ; or the first active substance is a mixture of Si and the Si-M alloy in a mass ratio of 0.01-100, wherein M is any one of B, Fe, Cu, Sn, Ge, Ti, Mg, Ni and Ce or a combination at least two thereof, a median particle size of Si is 10-300 nm, a median particle size of the Si-M alloy is 150-5000 nm, and the median particle size of Si is smaller than the median particle size of the Si-M alloy; or the first active substance is a mixture of SiO x and the Si-M alloy in a mass ratio of 0.01-100, wherein 0.5≤x≤1.5, M is any one of B, Fe, Cu, Sn, Ge, Ti, Mg, Ni and Ce or a combination at least two thereof, a median particle size of SiO x is 150-400 nm, a median particle size of the Si-M alloy is 200-5000 nm, and the median particle size of SiO x is smaller than the median particle size of the Si-M alloy; or the first active substance is a mixture of SiO x and the Si-M alloy in a mass ratio of 0.01-100, wherein 0.5≤x≤1.5, M is any one of B, Fe, Cu, Sn, Ge, Ti, Mg, Ni and Ce or a combination at least two thereof, a median particle size of the Si-M alloy is 150˜400 nm, a median particle size of SiO x is 200-5000 nm, and the median particle size of the Si-M alloy is smaller than the medium particle size of SiO x .

2 . The core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon coating is converted from an organic carbon source by sintering.

3 . The core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 2 , wherein the carbon coating has a thickness of 0.05-3 μm.

4 . The core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein the second active substance comprises a component which is any one of natural graphite and artificial graphite or a combination of two therefrom.

5 . The core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 4 , wherein a median particle size of the second active substance is 1-15 μm; or
the median particle size of the second active substance is greater than a median particle size of the first active substance, with difference of 2 μm-12 μm.

6 . The core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein based on a total mass of the core-shell type composite negative electrode material being 100 wt %, a mass percentage content of the first active substance is 1˜70 wt %, a mass percentage content of the second active substance is 5˜60 wt %, and a mass percentage content of the third active substance is 5˜50 wt %.

7 . The core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein the aspect ratio of the sheet-like graphite material is 3-50.

8 . The core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein in the first active substance, an absolute value of difference in median particle sizes between the at least two of SiO x and Si-M alloy is 50 nm-1500 nm.

9 . A negative electrode, wherein the negative electrode contains the core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 1 .

10 . A lithium ion battery, wherein the lithium ion battery contains the core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 1 .

11 . A core-shell type composite negative electrode material, wherein the core-shell type composite negative electrode material comprises:
an inner core which is formed of a first active substance and a second active substance, and a carbon coating outer shell acting as a third active substance, wherein the first active substance is a sheet-like silicon-based material, and the second active substance is a sheet-like graphite material; and wherein an aspect ratio of a particle of the sheet-like graphite material is larger than 2 and less than or equal to 120, wherein an aspect ratio of a particle of the sheet-like silicon-based material is larger than 15 and less than or equal to 100, the aspect ratio of the particle is a ratio of maximum linearity to minimum linearity of the particle, wherein the maximum linearity of a sheet-like material is a maximum length of a two-dimensional plane of the sheet-like material, and the minimum linearity is a thickness of the sheet-like material; wherein the first active substance is a mixture of Si, SiOx and the Si-M alloy, wherein 0.5≤x≤1.5, M is any one of B, Fe, Cu, Sn, Ge, Ti, Mg, Ni and Ce or a combination at least two thereof, a mass ratio of Si to SiOx is 0.02-100, a mass ratio of Si to the Si-M alloy is 0.02-100, a median particle size of Si is 10-300 nm, a median particle size of SiOx is 150-5000 nm, a median particle size of the Si-M alloy is 150-5000 nm, and the median particle size of Si<the median particle size of SiOx<the median particle size of the Si-M alloy; or the first active substance is a mixture of Si, SiOx and the Si-M alloy, a mass ratio of Si to SiOx is 0.02-100, wherein 0.5≤x≤1.5, M is any one of B, Fe, Cu, Sn, Ge, Ti, Mg, Ni and Ce or a combination at least two thereof, a mass ratio of Si to the Si-M alloy is 0.02-100, a median particle size of Si is 10-300 nm, a median particle size of the SiOx is 150-5000 nm, a median particle size of the Si-M alloy is 150-5000 nm, and the median particle size of Si<the median particle size of the Si-M alloy<the median particle size of SiOx.

12 . A method for preparing the core-shell type composite negative electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein the method comprises steps of:
(1) mixing and granulating the first active substance and the second active substance to obtain a first precursor; and (2) performing carbon coating modification on the first precursor, and then sintering a modified first precursor to obtain the core-shell type composite negative electrode material, wherein the first active substance is a sheet-like silicon-based material, and the second active substance is a sheet-like graphite material.

13 . The method according to claim 12 , wherein an aspect ratio of a particle of the sheet-like silicon-based material is 1.5˜100, excluding 1.5, and the aspect ratio of the particle is a ratio of maximum linearity to minimum linearity of the particle.

14 . The method according to claim 12 , wherein a specific surface area of the sheet-like silicon-based material is 50˜500 m 2 /g.

15 . The method according to claim 12 , wherein the method for the

Assignees

• Btr New Mat Group Co Ltd
• Dingyuan New Energy Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• He Peng
• Guo Eming
• Ren Jianguo
• He Xueqin

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

  for inserting or intercalating light metals · CPC title

• H01M4/386

  Silicon or alloys based on silicon · CPC title