Positive-electrode material, positive electrode plate, lithium secondary battery, battery module, battery pack, and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023108289-A1
Application number	US-202218063623-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 8, 2022
Priority date	Sep 3, 2020
Publication date	Apr 6, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

A positive-electrode material, a positive electrode plate, a lithium secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus are provided. The positive-electrode material in some embodiments includes lithium iron phosphate monocrystalline particles and lithium iron phosphate secondary particles. The lithium iron phosphate secondary particles have low specific surface area and can reduce binder and solvent consumption during slurry preparation, increase a solid content of slurry, and improve processing performance of a thick-coating plate. In addition, lithium iron phosphate monocrystal fully fills in gaps between the lithium iron phosphate secondary particles to further improve a compacted density of the plate and reduce a membrane resistance of the positive electrode plate, thereby improving performance of capacity per gram and cycling performance of the lithium secondary battery.

First claim

1 . A positive-electrode material, comprising a first positive-electrode active substance represented by formula (I) and a second positive-electrode active substance represented by formula (II):
LiFe 1-x1 M1 x1 PO 4   (I)
LiFe 1-x2 M2 x2 PO 4   (II)
wherein, 0≤x1≤0.1, 0≤x2≤0.1, and M1 and M2 are each independently selected from at least one of Cu, Mn, Cr, Zn, Pb, Ca, Co, Ni, Sr, or Ti; and the first positive-electrode active substance includes a monocrystalline particle and the second positive-electrode active substance includes a secondary particle.

2 . The positive-electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein the secondary particle is an agglomerate of a plurality of primary particles in pomegranate-like morphology, wherein
the primary particle is a monocrystalline nanoparticle; and a particle size d of the primary particle ranges from 20 nm to 500 nm.

3 . The positive-electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein the second positive-electrode active substance satisfies at least one of the following conditions:
(1) a median particle size D v 50 of the second positive-electrode active substance is 2.5 μm to 10.5 μm; and (2) a specific surface area of the second positive-electrode active substance is 3.5 m 2 /g to 10.5 m 2 /g.

4 . The positive-electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein the monocrystalline particle is an independent particle with continuous internal lattice with no grain boundary separation.

5 . The positive-electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein a powder resistivity of the first positive-electrode active substance under 12 Mpa is below 150 Ω·cm.

6 . The positive-electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein the first positive-electrode active substance satisfies at least one of the following conditions:
(1) a median particle size D v 50 of the first positive-electrode active substance is 0.5 μm to 2.0 μm; and (2) a specific surface area of the first positive-electrode active substance is 6.0 m 2 /g to 20 m 2 /g.

7 . The positive-electrode material according to claim 1 , wherein a mass percentage of the second positive-electrode active substance is greater than a mass percentage of the first positive-electrode active substance.

8 . A positive electrode plate, comprising a positive-electrode active substance layer, wherein the positive-electrode active substance layer comprises the positive-electrode material according to claim 1 .

9 . The positive electrode plate according to claim 8 , wherein a coating weight per unit area on a single surface of the positive electrode plate is 140 g/m 2 to 390 g/m 2 .

10 . The positive electrode plate according to claim 8 , wherein a membrane resistance of the positive electrode plate is less than 2,000 mΩ.

11 . A lithium secondary battery, comprising the positive electrode plate according to claim 8 .

12 . A battery module, comprising the lithium secondary battery according to claim 11 .

13 . The positive-electrode material according to 3 , wherein the median particle size D v 50 of the second positive-electrode active substance is 4.5 μm to 8.5 μm.

14 . The positive-electrode material according to 3 , wherein the median particle size D v 50 of the second positive-electrode active substance is 6 μm to 7 μm.

15 . The positive-electrode material according to 3 , the specific surface area of the second positive-electrode active substance is 5 m 2 /g to 9 m 2 /g.

16 . The positive-electrode material according to 3 , the specific surface area of the second positive-electrode active substance is 6.5 m 2 /g to 7.5 m 2 /g.

17 . The positive-electrode material according to claim 5 , the powder resistivity of the first positive-electrode active substance under 12 Mpa is below 80 Ω·cm.

18 . The positive-electrode material according to claim 5 , the powder resistivity of the first positive-electrode active substance under 12 Mpa is below 30 Ω·cm.

19 . The positive-electrode material according to 7 , wherein the mass percentage of the second positive-electrode active substance is 55% to 90%.

20 . The positive-electrode material according to 7 , wherein the mass percentage of the second positive-electrode active substance is 65% to 80%.

21 . The positive electrode plate according to claim 9 , wherein the coating weight per unit area on a single surface of the positive electrode plate is 190 g/m 2 to 320 g/m 2 .

22 . The positive electrode plate according to claim 9 , wherein the coating weight per unit area on a single surface of the positive electrode plate is 230 g/m 2 to 280 g/m 2 .

23 . The positive electrode plate according to claim 8 , wherein the membrane resistance of the positive electrode plate is less than 800 mΩ.

24 . The positive electrode plate according to claim 8 , wherein the membrane resistance of the positive electrode plate is less than 200 mΩ.

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Bie Changfeng
• Liu Hongyu
• Liu Na

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

• H01M4/136

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

• H01M4/5825

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

• H01M4/366 Primary

  as layered products · CPC title