Negative electrode for secondary battery, method for producing same, and secondary battery using same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016006010-A1
Application number	US-201414765173-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 16, 2014
Priority date	Feb 4, 2013
Publication date	Jan 7, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery containing a lithium sulfonate represented by a general formula (I) and provides a secondary battery that is excellent in a cycle characteristic and a storage characteristic under a high temperature environment:

wherein R represents an n-valent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an n-valent mononuclear aromatic group or an n-valent binuclear condensed aromatic group, and n represents 1 or 2.

First claim

1 . A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery containing a lithium sulfonate represented by a general formula (I):

wherein
R represents an n-valent aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an n-valent mononuclear aromatic group or an n-valent binuclear condensed aromatic group, and
n represents 1 or 2.

2 . The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein
n represents 1, R represents a substituted or unsubstituted linear alkyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted branched alkyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic alkyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted cyclohexyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted decahydronaphthyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted tetralyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted naphthoquinolyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted tolyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted xylyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted benzyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted trityl group; a substituted or unsubstituted styryl group; a substituted or unsubstituted naphthyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted furyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted thienyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted pyridyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted quinolyl group; or a substituted or unsubstituted morpholino group, in the above groups, one or more CH 2 groups may be each independently replaced with —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —O—, —CO—, —CO—O—, —O—CO— or —SiY 1 Y 2 —, in which Y 1 — and Y 2 each independently represent H, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms or an alkynyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, and in the above groups, one or more hydrogen atoms may be each independently replaced with a halogen selected form bromo, chloro, fluoro and iodo; an alkyl group selected from methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, dodecyl, tridecyl, tetradecyl and pentadecyl; an alkoxy group selected from methoxy, ethoxy, propoxy, butoxy, pentoxy, hexyloxy, heptyloxy, octyloxy, nonyloxy, decyloxy, undecyloxy, dodecyloxy, tridecyloxy and tetradecyloxy; an alkenyl group selected from vinyl, prop-1- and -2-enyl, but-1-, -2- and -3-enyl, pent-1-, -2-, -3- and -4-enyl, hex-1-, -2-, -3-, -4- and -5-enyl, hept-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5- and -6-enyl, oct-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5-, -6- and -7-enyl, non-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5-, -6-, -7- and -8-enyl, dec-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5-, -6-, -7-, -8- and -9-enyl; an alkynyl group selected from ethynyl and propargyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted cyclohexyl group; an aryl group selected from phenyl, tolyl, xylyl, benzyl, trityl, styryl, naphthyl, decahydronaphthyl, tetralyl and naphthoquinolyl; a heterocyclic group selected from furyl, thienyl, pyridyl, quinolyl and morpholino; a nitrogen-containing group selected from nitro, nitroso, cyano, isocyano, cyanato, isocyanato, amino and amide; an oxygen-containing group selected from hydroxy, carboxyl, acyl and alkoxycarbonyl; a silicon-containing group selected from silyl, monomethylsilyl, dimethylsilyl, trimethylsilyl, monophenylsilyl, diphenylsilyl and triphenylsilyl; or a sulfur-containing group selected from thioalkyl and thioalkoxy.

3 . The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery according to claim 2 , wherein the lithium sulfonate represented by the general formula (I) is a compound selected from the group consisting of following formulae:

4 . The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein
n represents 2, R represents a substituted or unsubstituted linear alkylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted branched alkylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic alkylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted cyclohexylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted decahydronaphthylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted tetralylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted naphthoquinolylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted tolylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted xylylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted benzylidene group; a substituted or unsubstituted naphthylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted furylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted thienylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted pyridylene group; a substituted or unsubstituted quinolylene group; or a substituted or unsubstituted morpholylene group, in the above groups, one or more CH 2 groups may be each independently replaced with —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —O —, —CO—, —CO—O—, —O—CO— or —SiY 1 Y 2 —, in which Y 1 — and Y 2 each independently represent H, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms or an alkynyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, and in the above groups, one or more hydrogen atoms may be each independently replaced with a halogen selected form bromo, chloro, fluoro and iodo; an alkyl group selected from methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, dodecyl, tridecyl, tetradecyl and pentadecyl; an alkoxy group selected from methoxy, ethoxy, propoxy, butoxy, pentoxy, hexyloxy, heptyloxy, octyloxy, nonyloxy, decyloxy, undecyloxy, dodecyloxy, tridecyloxy and tetradecyloxy; an alkenyl group selected from vinyl, prop-1- and -2-enyl, but-1-, -2- and -3-enyl, pent-1-, -2-, -3- and -4-enyl, hex-1-, -2-, -3-, -4- and -5-enyl, hept-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5- and -6-enyl, oct-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5-, -6- and -7-enyl, non-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5-, -6-, -7- and -8-enyl, dec-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5-, -6-, -7-, -8- and -9-enyl; an alkynyl group selected from ethynyl and propargyl group; a substituted or unsubstituted cyclohexyl group; an aryl group selected from phenyl, tolyl, xylyl, benzyl, trityl, styryl, naphthyl, decahydronaphthyl, tetralyl and naphthoquinolyl; a heterocyclic group selected from furyl, thienyl, pyridyl, quinolyl and morpholino; a nitrogen-containing group selected from nitro, nitroso, cyano, isocyano, cyanato, isocyanato, amino and amide; an oxygen-containing group selected from hydroxy, carboxyl, acyl and alkoxycarbonyl; a silicon-containing group selected from silyl, monomethylsilyl, dimethylsilyl, trimethylsilyl, monophenylsilyl, diphenylsilyl and triphenylsilyl; or a sulfur-containing group selected from thioalkyl and thioalkoxy.

5 . The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery according to claim 4 , wherein the lithium sulfonate represented by the general formula (I) is a compound selected from the group consisting of following formulae:

6 . The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the lithium sulfonate represented by the general formula (I) is insoluble in a solvent having a solubility parameter (sp value) of 8.8 to 11.5.

7 . The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the lithium sulfonate defined in claim 1 is attached on or forming a coating on a surface of a negative electrode active material.

8 . The negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery according to claim 7 , wherein an amount of the lithium sulfonate relativ

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Suguro Masahiro
• Shimura Midori
• Tamura Noriyuki
• Nakahara Kentaro

Classifications

• H01M50/417

  Polyolefins · CPC title

• H01M10/4235

  Safety or regulating additives or arrangements in electrodes, separators or electrolyte (H01M10/4242 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01M4/366

  as layered products · CPC title

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title

• H01M2004/027

  Negative electrodes · CPC title