Electrolyte for sodium secondary battery, sodium secondary battery, and electric apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025253407-A1
Application number	US-202519087259-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 21, 2025
Priority date	Jan 16, 2023
Publication date	Aug 7, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electrolyte for sodium secondary battery, a sodium secondary battery, a battery module, and an electric apparatus. The electrolyte for sodium secondary battery includes a sodium salt, an ether solvent, and a fluoroether solvent. The electrolyte includes ether solvent molecules and fluoroether solvent molecules that form a co-solvation structure with sodium ions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electrolyte for sodium secondary battery, comprising a sodium salt, an ether solvent, and a fluoroether solvent.

2 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein a first solvation shell of the sodium salt comprises ether solvent molecules and fluoroether solvent molecules.

3 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the ether solvent comprises a compound represented by formula I, a compound represented by formula II, or a crown ether,

wherein:
R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are each independently selected from hydrogen and unsubstituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl; R 1 and R 2 optionally form a cyclic structure together with oxygen connected thereto; R 3 and R 4 optionally form a cyclic structure together with oxygen connected thereto;
x is an arbitrary integer from 0 to 5; and
n is an arbitrary integer from 1 to 5.

4 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the ether solvent comprises one or more of ethylene glycol dimethyl ether, diethylene glycol dimethyl ether, triethylene glycol dimethyl ether, tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether, ethylene glycol diethyl ether, diethylene glycol diethyl ether, diisopropyl ether, dibutyl ether, diethylene glycol dibutyl ether, 1,4-dimethoxybutane, 1,4-diethoxybutane, 1,3-dioxolane, tetrahydrofuran, 15-crown-5, 12-crown-4, and 18-crown-6; and optionally, the ether solvent comprises one or more of ethylene glycol dimethyl ether, ethylene glycol diethyl ether, and 1,3-dioxolane.

5 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the fluoroether solvent comprises a compound represented by formula III,

wherein R 5 , R 6 , and R 7 are each independently selected from hydrogen, unsubstituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl, or C 1 -C 6 alkyl substituted with fluorine or hydroxyl; at least one of R 5 , R 6 , and R 7 comprises fluorine; and R 5 and R 7 optionally form a cyclic structure together with oxygen connected thereto and R 6 connected to oxygen.

6 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the fluoroether solvent comprises one or more selected from 2,2,3,3-tetrafluoro-1,4-dimethoxybutane, 2-(2-ethoxyethoxy)-1,1,1-trifluoroethane, 1,2-bis(2,2-difluoroethoxy)ethane, 2-(2-(2,2-difluoroethoxy)ethoxy)-1,1,1-trifluoroethane, 1,2-bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)ethane, 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropyl methyl ether, 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl methyl ether-1,1,2,3,3,3-hexafluoropropyl ether, 2,2-bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,3-dioxolane, 2,2-dimethoxy-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1,3-dioxolane, 2-ethoxy-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1,3-dioxolane, and perfluorotetrahydrofuran; and optionally, the fluoroether solvent comprises one or more of 2,2,3,3-tetrafluoro-1,4-dimethoxybutane, 2-(2-ethoxyethoxy)-1,1,1-trifluoroethane, 1,2-bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)ethane, 2,2-bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,3-dioxolane, and 2,2-dimethoxy-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1,3-dioxolane.

7 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein based on a total volume of the electrolyte, a volume ratio of the ether solvent to the fluoroether solvent is 1:9 to 9:1, optionally 1:1 to 9:1 or 3:2 to 4:1.

8 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein the sodium salt comprises one or more of sodium nitrate, sodium perchlorate, sodium hexafluorophosphate, sodium tetrafluoroborate, sodium tetrafluoroyttrate, sodium hexafluoroarsenate, sodium acetate, sodium trifluoroacetate, sodium bis(oxalato)borate, sodium difluoro(oxalato)borate, sodium tetraphenylborate, sodium trifluoromethanesulfonate, sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, sodium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, and sodium (perfluorobutylsulfonyl)imide.

9 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein based on a total mass of the electrolyte, a mass percentage of the sodium salt is 2% to 70%, optionally 30% to 70%.

10 . A sodium secondary battery, comprising the electrolyte according to claim 1 .

11 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein the secondary battery is a sodium metal battery.

12 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein the secondary battery is a sodium secondary battery with no negative electrode.

13 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein the sodium secondary battery comprises a positive electrode plate, wherein the positive electrode plate comprises a positive electrode active material, and the positive electrode active material comprises one or more of a Prussian blue compound, a polyanionic compound, and a layered oxide.

14 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 13 , wherein a surface of a particle of the positive electrode active material is provided with a coating layer, wherein the coating layer comprises one or more of a carbon material, polyaniline, polypyrrole, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, magnesium oxide, silicon oxide, lanthanum oxide, sodium fluoride, lithium fluoride, and aluminum fluoride.

15 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 14 , wherein a thickness of the coating layer is 2 nm to 1000 nm, optionally 10 nm to 100 nm.

16 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein the secondary battery comprises a negative electrode plate, wherein the negative electrode plate comprises a negative electrode current collector and a primer layer provided on at least one side of the negative electrode current collector, and the primer layer comprises one or more of carbon nanotubes, graphite, graphene, silver-carbon composite nanoparticles, and tin-carbon composite nanoparticles.

17 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 16 , wherein the negative electrode current collector comprises at least one of a metal foil, a metal foam current collector, a metal mesh current collector, a carbon felt current collector, a carbon cloth current collector, a carbon paper current collector, and a composite current collector.

18 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 16 , wherein a surface density of the primer layer is 2 g/m 2 to 50 g/m 2 .

19 . The sodium secondary battery according to claim 16 , wherein a thickness of the primer layer is 1 μm to 100 μm.

20 . A battery module, comprising the sodium secondary battery according to claim 10 .

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Hong Kong Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Shigang
• Guo Bingkun
• Zhang Xinxin
• Li Xiaolong
• Liu Ben
• Yao Shikang

Classifications

• H01M2300/0037

  Mixture of solvents · CPC title

• H01M2004/028

  Positive electrodes · CPC title

• H01M2004/021

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

• H01M10/0568

  characterised by the solutes · CPC title

• H01M10/054 Primary

  Accumulators with insertion or intercalation of metals other than lithium, e.g. with magnesium or aluminium · CPC title