Anode for Lithium Secondary Battery, and Lithium Secondary Battery Comprising Same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023343931-A1
Application number	US-202218026460-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 6, 2022
Priority date	May 26, 2021
Publication date	Oct 26, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to aA negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, wherein the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material which contains a carbon material and a silicon material, contains Si in a specific content, and has a form and/or structure in which the size of each material is controlled so that it is possible to improve the charging/discharging capacity and efficiency of the negative electrode, suppress the side reaction between the negative electrode active material and the electrolyte during the charging and discharging while solving a problem of the negative electrode mixture layer peeling due to the expansion and contraction of the negative electrode active material. In addition, since the lithium secondary battery according to of the present technology includes a positive electrode containing a specific positive electrode active material and a positive electrode additive together with the negative electrode to further improve the initial charging/discharging efficiency and capacity of the battery, there is an advantage in that electrical performance of the battery is excellent.

First claim

1 . A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, comprising:
a negative electrode current collector; and a negative electrode mixture layer which is located on the negative electrode current collector and contains a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material includes a carbon material and a silicon material, wherein an average particle size (D 50 ) of the carbon material ranges from 1 μm to 20 μm, wherein the silicon material includes at least one of first silicon particles having an average particle size (D 50 ) ranging from 1 μm to 20 μm or second silicon particles having an average particle size (D 50 ) ranging from 30 nm to 500 nm, and wherein the negative electrode mixture layer contains 40 wt % or less of silicon (Si) based on a total weight of the negative electrode mixture layer.

2 . The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode mixture layer contains Si in an amount ranging from 1.5 wt % to 25 wt % based on the total weight of the negative electrode mixture layer.

3 . The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the carbon material includes at least one of natural graphite, artificial graphite, carbon black, acetylene black, Ketjen black, or carbon fiber.

4 . The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the silicon material is a silicon (Si) particle.

5 . The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode active material has a structure in which the first silicon particles or the second silicon particles are uniformly dispersed using the carbon material as a matrix.

6 . The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode active material has a structure in which the first silicon particles are uniformly dispersed using the carbon material as a matrix and the negative electrode active material further has a form in which the second silicon particles are partially adsorbed on a surface of the carbon material.

7 . The negative electrode of claim 1 , wherein:
the negative electrode active material further includes a carbon body selected from the group consisting of carbon nanotubes and graphene; and an average particle size D 50 of the carbon body ranges from 10 nm to 100 nm.

8 . The negative electrode of claim 7 , wherein the negative electrode active material has a structure in which the first silicon particles are uniformly dispersed using the carbon material as a matrix and the negative electrode active material further has a form in which the carbon body is partially or entirely adsorbed on a surface of the first silicon particle.

9 . The negative electrode of claim 7 , wherein the negative electrode active material has a structure in which the first silicon particles are uniformly dispersed using the carbon material as a matrix, the negative electrode active material has a form in which the second silicon particles are partially adsorbed on the surface of the carbon material, and the negative electrode active material has a form in which the carbon body is partially or entirely adsorbed on the surface of the first silicon particle.

10 . A lithium secondary battery comprising:
a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer coated on the positive electrode current collector and includeing a positive electrode active material and a positive electrode additive; the negative electrode according to claim 1 ; and a separator located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.

11 . The lithium secondary battery of claim 10 , wherein the positive electrode additive includes any one or more among lithium metal oxides represented by Chemical Formulas 1 to 3 below:
Li x Co (1-y) Zn y O 4 ,   [Chemical Formula 1]
Li x FeO 4 ,   [Chemical Formula 2]
Li p Ni q O r , and [Chemical Formula 3] in Chemical Formulas 1 to 3, wherein x and y are 4≤x≤7 and 0≤y≤0.5, and p, q, and r are 1.5≤p≤3, 0.8≤q≤1.2 and 2≤r≤4.

12 . The lithium secondary battery of claim 10 , wherein a content of the positive electrode additive is 1 wt % or less based on the total weight of the positive electrode mixture layer.

13 . The lithium secondary battery of claim 10 , wherein the positive electrode active material includes a lithium nickel metal oxide of Chemical Formula 4:
Li a [Ni b Co c Mn d M 1 e ]O f , and   [Chemical Formula 4]
in Chemical Formula 4, M 1 denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of W, Cu, Fe, V, Cr, Ti, Zr, Zn, Al, In, Ta, Y, La, Sr, Ga, Sc, Gd, Sm, Ca, Ce, Nb, Mg, B, and Mo, wherein a, b, c, d, e, and f are 1.0≤a≤1.30, 0.1≤b<1, 0<c≤0.5, 0<d≤0.5, 0≤e≤0.2 and 1.5≤f≤5.

Assignees

• Lg Energy Solution Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Su Min
• Oh Sang Seung
• Kim Hye Hyeon
• Jo Chi Ho

Classifications

• H01M2004/028

  Positive electrodes · CPC title

• H01M4/131 Primary

  Electrodes based on mixed oxides or hydroxides, or on mixtures of oxides or hydroxides, e.g. LiCoOx · CPC title

• H01M4/364 Primary

  as mixtures · CPC title

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title

• H01M4/587

  for inserting or intercalating light metals · CPC title