Anode for all-solid-state battery, manufacturing method thereof and all-solid-state battery including the anode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025149553-A1
Application number	US-202418636696-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 16, 2024
Priority date	Nov 3, 2023
Publication date	May 8, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

An embodiment anode for an all-solid-state battery, the anode including an anode current collector and an anode active material layer disposed on the anode current collector and including an anode active material, the anode active material including a plate-type carbon material, wherein a length ratio (a/c) of a major axis (a) to a thickness (c) of the plate-type carbon material is 4 or more, and a coating layer coating a portion of a surface of the plate-type carbon material, wherein the coating layer includes a lithiophilic material.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An anode for an all-solid-state battery, the anode comprising:
an anode current collector; and an anode active material layer disposed on the anode current collector and comprising an anode active material, the anode active material comprising:
a plate-type carbon material, wherein a length ratio (a/c) of a length (a) of a major axis to a thickness (c) of the plate-type carbon material is 4 or more; and
a coating layer coating a portion of a surface of the plate-type carbon material, wherein the coating layer comprises a lithiophilic material.

2 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein the plate-type carbon material comprises a material selected from the group consisting of natural graphite, artificial graphite, and a combination thereof.

3 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein the length ratio (a/c) of the length of the major axis (a) to the thickness (c) of the plate-type carbon material is 4.130 to 5.987.

4 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein a length ratio (a/b) of the major axis (a) to a minor axis (b) of the plate-type carbon material is 1.120 to 2.054.

5 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein an average orientation angle of the major axis of the plate-type carbon material to a plane direction of the anode current collector is 12° or less.

6 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein the lithiophilic material comprises a material selected from the group consisting of silicon (Si), silver (Ag), manganese (Mg), tin (Sn), bismuth (Bi), zinc (Zn), and combinations thereof.

7 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein the lithiophilic material comprises amorphous silicon (Si).

8 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the coating layer is 20 nm to 200 nm.

9 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein the anode active material comprises 10 wt % to 60 wt % of the coating layer with respect to a total weight of the anode active material.

10 . The anode of claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer further comprises an inorganic electrolyte.

11 . An all-solid-state battery comprising:
an anode comprising an anode current collector and an anode active material layer disposed on the anode current collector and comprising an anode active material, the anode active material comprising:
a plate-type carbon material, wherein a length ratio (a/c) of a length of a major axis (a) to a thickness (c) of the plate-type carbon material is 4 or more; and
a coating layer coating a portion of a surface of the plate-type carbon material, wherein the coating layer comprises a lithiophilic material;
a solid electrolyte layer disposed on the anode active material layer and comprising a solid electrolyte; a cathode active material layer disposed on the solid electrolyte layer and comprising a cathode active material; and a cathode current collector disposed on the cathode active material layer.

12 . The all-solid-state battery of claim 11 , configured to satisfy (V 100 −V 0 )/V 0 ×100≤12%, wherein V 100 is a volume of the anode active material layer in a fully discharged state of the all-solid-state battery after a charge and discharge cycle is performed 100 times, and V 0 is the volume of the anode active material layer in a state in which charging and discharging of the all-solid-state battery is not performed.

13 . A manufacturing method of an anode for an all-solid-state battery, the method comprising:
preparing a plate-type carbon material and a precursor of a lithiophilic material; synthesizing an anode active material, the anode active material comprising:
the plate-type carbon material, wherein a length ratio (a/c) of a length (a) of a major axis to a thickness (c) of the plate-type carbon material is 4 or more; and
a coating layer coating a portion of a surface of the plate-type carbon material, the coating layer comprising the lithiophilic material derived from the precursor; and
stacking an anode active material layer comprising the anode active material on an anode current collector.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the length ratio (a/c) of the length (a) of the major axis to the thickness (c) of the plate-type carbon material is 4.130 to 5.987.

15 . The method of claim 13 , wherein an average orientation angle of the major axis of the plate-type carbon material to a plane direction of the anode current collector is 12° or less.

16 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the coating layer is prepared using chemical vapor deposition.

17 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the precursor comprises a material selected from the group consisting of SiH 4 , Si 2 H 6 , Si 3 H 8 , SiCl 4 , SiHCl 3 , Si 2 Cl 6 , SiH 2 Cl 2 , SiH 3 Cl, and combinations thereof.

18 . The method of claim 13 , wherein a thickness of the coating layer is 20 nm to 200 nm.

19 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the anode active material layer further comprises an inorganic electrolyte.

20 . The method of claim 19 , wherein a weight ratio of the anode active material to the inorganic electrolyte comprised in the anode active material layer is 1:0.5 to 1:1.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Corp
• Nat Univ Pukyong Ind Univ Coop Found

Inventors

• Lee Yoon Kwang
• Kim Yun Sung
• Im Ga Hyeon
• Lee Kyu Joon
• Min Hong Seok
• Lee So Young
• Chae Su Jong
• Ko Min Sung
• Choi Ji Sub
• Park Seong Su

Classifications

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title

• H01M2004/027

  Negative electrodes · CPC title

• C01B32/21

  After-treatment · CPC title

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title

• H01M10/0562

  Solid materials · CPC title