Positive active material, lithium ion secondary battery, battery module, battery pack and electric device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025219082-A1
Application number	US-202519084281-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 19, 2025
Priority date	Jan 21, 2021
Publication date	Jul 3, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A positive active material is provided. In some embodiments, the positive material includes: a substrate and a coating layer coating the substrate, wherein the coating layer includes a fast ion conductor layer and a carbon coating layer, the substrate includes more than one compound of formula (I): LiFe 1-a M1 a PO 4 formula (I), in formula (I), M1 is more than one selected from Cu, Mn, Cr, Zn, Pb, Ca, Co, Ni, Sr, Nb and Ti, and 0≤a≤0.01; the fast ion conductor layer includes a fast ion conductor of a NASICON structure shown in formula (II), Li 3-b Fe 2-b M2 b (PO 4 ) 3 formula (II), in formula (II), M2 is more than one selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, Ge and Sn with valence of +4, and 0≤b≤1.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A lithium-ion secondary battery, comprising a positive plate, wherein the positive plate comprises a positive current collector and a positive film layer provided on at least one surface of the positive current collector, the positive film layer comprises a positive active material,
wherein when a button cell is formed by the positive plate and a lithium metal plate, in a 0.1 C charging-discharging curve of the button cell, a charging-discharging platform exists within a voltage range from 2.5V to 2.9V vs Li + .

2 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 1 , wherein the positive active material comprises:
a substrate and a coating layer disposed on the substrate, the coating layer comprising a fast ion conductor layer and a carbon coating layer, wherein, the substrate comprises the substrate comprises lithium iron phosphate, the fast ion conductor layer comprises a fast ion conductor of a NASICON structure.

3 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the lithium iron phosphate is represented by formula (I):
LiFe 1-a M1 a PO 4   formula (I), wherein,
in formula (I), M1 is one of more selected from Cu, Mn, Cr, Zn, Pb, Ca, Co, Ni, Sr, Nb, and Ti, and 0≤a≤0.01.

4 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the fast ion conductor is represented by formula (II),
Li 3-b Fe 2-b M2 b (PO 4 ) 3   formula (II), wherein,
in formula (II), M2 is one or more selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, Ge, and Sn with valence of +4, and 0<b≤1.

5 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein in the positive active material, a molar ratio of the substrate and the fast ion conductor satisfies (1-x):x, and 0<x≤0.005.

6 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the positive active material has pH not less than 9.

7 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the positive active material has a volume average particle size satisfying 1 μm≤Dv50≤2 μm and 0.4 μm≤Dv10≤0.7 μm.

8 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the positive active material has a powder compaction density ρ≥2.5 g/cm 3 .

9 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the positive active material has a powder resistivity R≤11 Ω·cm.

10 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the positive active material has a mass percentage content of carbon C % of 1% to 1.5%, and the positive active material has a specific surface area S from 10 m 2 /g to 15 m 2 /g.

11 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 10 , wherein a ratio of the specific surface area S to the mass percentage content C % of the positive active material satisfies 9≤S/C≤12.

12 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein free lithium is present in the positive active material, a pH of the positive active material is not less than 9, and a mass percentage content N Li+ % of the free lithium is 0.012% to 0.028%.

13 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 12 , wherein the pH of the positive active material and the mass percentage content N Li+ % satisfy 0.15≤pH−(36N Li+ +8)≤1.1.

14 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the carbon coating layer is a carbonization product of an organic carbon source coated on a surface of the substrate, the organic carbon source is at least one of glucose and polyethylene glycol.

15 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the substrate is LiFePO 4 .

16 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the fast ion conductor is selected from one or more of Li 2 FeTi(PO 4 ) 3 , Li 2 FeZr(PO 4 ) 3 , and Li 2 FeSn(PO 4 ) 3 .

17 . The lithium-ion secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the positive plate has an electrode plate compaction density of at least 2.5 g/cm 3 .

18 . A positive active material, comprising:
a substrate and a coating layer disposed on the substrate, the coating layer comprising a fast ion conductor layer and a carbon coating layer, wherein, the substrate comprises lithium iron phosphate, the fast ion conductor layer comprises a fast ion conductor of a NASICON structure.

19 . The positive active material of claim 18 , wherein the lithium iron phosphate is represented by formula (I):
LiFe 1-a M1 a PO 4   formula (I), wherein,
in formula (I), M1 is one of more selected from Cu, Mn, Cr, Zn, Pb, Ca, Co, Ni, Sr, Nb, and Ti, and 0≤a≤0.01, the fast ion conductor is represented by formula (II),
Li 3-b Fe 2-b M2 b (PO 4 ) 3   formula (II), wherein,

in formula (II), M2 is one or more selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, Ge, and Sn with valence of +4, and 0<b≤1.

20 . A lithium-ion secondary battery, comprising a positive plate, wherein the positive plate comprises a positive current collector and a positive film layer provided on at least one surface of the positive current collector, the positive film layer comprises a positive active material,
the positive active material has a mass percentage content of carbon C % of 1% to 1.5%, and the positive active material has a specific surface area S from 10 m 2 /g to 15 m 2 /g, when a button cell is formed by the positive plate and a lithium metal plate, in a 0.1 C charging-discharging curve of the button cell, a charging-discharging platform exists within a voltage range from 2.5V to 2.9V vs Li + .

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Hong Kong Ltd

Inventors

• Leng Xue
• Liu Hongyu
• Bie Changfeng
• Liu Na
• Cai Wanqing

Classifications

• H01M2004/028

  Positive electrodes · CPC title

• H01M2004/021

  Physical characteristics, e.g. porosity, surface area · CPC title

• H01M10/0525 Primary

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• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title

• H01M2220/30

  Batteries in portable systems, e.g. mobile phone, laptop · CPC title