Cathode material for lithium-ion secondary battery, cathode for lithium-ion secondary battery, and lithium-ion secondary battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018097230-A1
Application number	US-201715433805-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 15, 2017
Priority date	Sep 30, 2016
Publication date	Apr 5, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention includes central particles represented by Li x A y M z PO 4 and a carbonaceous film that coats surfaces of the central particles, an average value of R values (I 1580 /I 1360 ), which are ratios of a peak intensity (I 1580 ) of a spectrum at a frequency band of 1,580±50 cm −1 to a peak intensity (I 1360 ) of the spectrum at a frequency band of 1,360±50 cm −1 in a Raman spectrum analysis, measured at five points is 0.80 or more and 1.10 or less, and a standard deviation of the R values measured at five points is 0.010 or less.

First claim

1 . A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery, comprising:
central particles represented by Li x A y M z PO 4 , wherein 0≦x≦1.1, 0.8≦y≦1.1, and 0≦z≦0.2, A represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Co, and Ni, and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Co, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and rare earth elements; and a carbonaceous film that coats surfaces of the central particles, wherein an average value of R values (I 1580 /I 1360 ), which are ratios of a peak intensity (I 1580 ) of a spectrum at a frequency band of 1,580±50 cm −1 to a peak intensity (I 1360 ) of the spectrum at a frequency band of 1,360±50 cm −1 in a Raman spectrum analysis, measured at five points is 0.82 or more and 0.98 or less, and a standard deviation of the R values measured at five points is 0.004 or more and 0.009 or less.

2 . (canceled)

3 . The cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the average value of R values (I 1580 /I 1360 ), which are the ratios of the peak intensity (I 1580 ) of the spectrum at the frequency band of 1,580±50 cm −1 to the peak intensity (I 1360 ) of the spectrum at the frequency band of 1,360±50 cm −1 in the Raman spectrum analysis, measured at five points is 0.83 or more and 0.97 or less, the standard deviation of the R values measured at five points is 0.004 or more and 0.009 or less, an average primary particle diameter is 50 nm or more and 300 nm or less, an amount of carbon forming the carbonaceous film is 0.6 parts by mass or more and 3 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the central particles, the cathode material is used for cathodes of lithium-ion secondary batteries in which natural graphite is used for an anode, and when a depth of discharge of a discharge capacity of the lithium-ion secondary battery which is, in an environment of 25° C., constant-current-charged at a current value of 0.1 C until a battery voltage reaches 3.7 V and is then constant-current-discharged at a current value of 5 C until the battery voltage reaches 2.5 V is considered as 100%, the battery voltage of the lithium-ion secondary battery which is constant-current-charged and is then constant-current-discharged at a current value of 0.1 C until the depth of discharge reaches 90% is indicated by D1, and the battery voltage of the lithium-ion secondary battery which is constant-current-charged and is then constant-current-discharged at a current value of 5 C until the depth of discharge reaches 90% is indicated by D2, (D1−D2) is 0.45 V or less.

4 . The cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the central particles are represented by Li x Fe 1-z M z PO 4 , wherein 0≦x≦1.1, and 0≦z≦0.2, and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Co, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and rare earth elements.

5 . A cathode for a lithium-ion secondary battery, comprising:
an electrode current collector; and a cathode mixture layer formed on the electrode current collector, wherein the cathode mixture layer includes the cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery according to claim 1 .

6 . A lithium-ion secondary battery comprising:
the cathode for a lithium-ion secondary battery according to claim 5 .

Assignees

• Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co Ltd

Inventors

• Oyama Masataka
• Kitagawa Takao

Classifications

• H01M2004/028

  Positive 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

• H01M4/136

  Electrodes based on inorganic compounds other than oxides or hydroxides, e.g. sulfides, selenides, tellurides, halogenides or LiCoFy · CPC title

• H01M4/5825 Primary

  Oxygenated metallic salts or polyanionic structures, e.g. borates, phosphates, silicates, olivines · CPC title