Sodium-ion battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025323310-A1
Application number	US-202519249578-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 25, 2025
Priority date	Mar 23, 2023
Publication date	Oct 16, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

Disclosed is a sodium-ion battery. By doping the positive electrode active substance with metallic M element and adding vinylene carbonate (VC) to the electrolyte solution, the metallic M element can effectively promote VC to form a film preferentially on the positive electrode. By regulating a mass content of ethylene carbonate in a total mass of the electrolyte solution, a mass content of vinylene carbonate in the total mass of the electrolyte solution, and a molar amount of the M element per mole of the positive electrode active substance, so that they satisfy 0≤w 1 ≤30% and 0≤w 1 /(w 2 +d)≤5, the stability of the sodium-ion battery can be greatly improved, and the gas generation phenomenon can be reduced.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A sodium-ion battery, comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator and an electrolyte solution; wherein the positive electrode plate comprises a positive electrode active substance, the positive electrode active substance comprises metallic Na element, metallic Ni element, metallic Fe element, metallic Mn element, and metallic M element, the metallic M element is one or more selected from Li, Mg, Zn, Co, Ca, Ba, Sr, Al, B, Cr, V, Zr, Ti, Sn, Mo, Ru, Si, Sb, Nb or Te; the electrolyte solution comprises vinylene carbonate and optionally added or non-added ethylene carbonate;
the battery satisfies the following relationship:

0
≤

w
1

≤

30
⁢
%

;

0
≤

w
1

/

(

w
2

+
d

)

≤
5

;

wherein w 1 is a mass content of ethylene carbonate in a total mass of the electrolyte solution, w2 is a mass content of vinylene carbonate in the total mass of the electrolyte solution, d is a molar amount of M element per mole of the positive electrode active substance.

2 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein w 2 is 0.1%-10%.

3 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein w 2 is 0.5%-5%.

4 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein w 1 is 8%-25%.

5 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein d is greater than 0 and less than 1.

6 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein a value of d is 0.001-0.1.

7 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein 0≤w 1 /(w 2 +d)≤3.

8 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolyte solution further comprises a compound represented by Formula I:

in Formula I, R 1 is selected from alkoxy group; R 2 , R 3 , R 4 are the same or different and are each independently selected from alkyl group.

9 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 8 , wherein R 1 is selected from C 1-12 alkoxy group; R 2 , R 3 , R 4 are the same or different and are each independently selected from C 1-12 alkyl group.

10 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 8 , wherein the compound represented by Formula I is specifically selected from a compound represented by following Formula A:

11 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 8 , wherein a mass content of the compound represented by Formula I is 0.1%-5% of a total mass of the electrolyte solution.

12 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 11 , wherein the mass content of the compound represented by Formula I is 1%-2% of a total mass of the electrolyte solution.

13 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein a chemical formula of the positive electrode active substance is Na x Ni a Fe b Mn c M d O 2 , 0<a<1, 0<b<1, 0<c<1, 0<d<1, and a+b+c+d=1, 0.7≤x≤1.0; M is one or more selected from Li, Mg, Zn, Co, Ca, Ba, Sr, Al, B, Cr, V, Zr, Ti, Sn, Mo, Ru, Si, Sb, Nb or Te.

14 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the M element is one or more selected from Al, Mg, Zn, Co, Ca, B, Sn or Ti.

15 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein a Dv50 of the positive electrode active substance is 15 μm-20 μm.

16 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein a press density of the positive electrode plate is 4.0 g/cm 3 -4.4 g/cm 3 .

17 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolyte solution comprises a sodium salt;
the sodium salt is one or more selected from sodium hexafluorophosphate, sodium tetrafluoroborate, sodium perchlorate, sodium hexafluoroarsenate, sodium hexafluoroantimonate, sodium difluorophosphate, sodium 4,5-dicyano-2-trifluoromethy limidazole, sodium bis(oxalato)borate, sodium bis(malonato)borate, sodium difluoro(oxalato)borate, sodium bis(difluoromalonato)borate, sodium (malonatooxalato)borate, sodium (difluoromalonatooxalato)borate, sodium tris(oxalato)phosphate, sodium tris(difluoromalonato)phosphate, sodium tetrafluoro(oxalato)phosphate, sodium difluorobis(oxalato)phosphate, sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, sodium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, sodium (fluorosulfonyl)(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, sodium nitrate or sodium fluoride.

18 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 17 , wherein a concentration of the sodium salt in the electrolyte solution is 0.2 mol/L-2.0 mol/L.

19 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein an active material in the negative electrode plate comprises at least one of natural graphite, artificial graphite, mesocarbon microbead, hard carbon, soft carbon, Sn, SnO, SnO 2 , Sb, Sb 2 O 3 , Bi, Bi 2 O 3 or TiO 2 .

20 . The sodium-ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein a charge cut-off voltage of the sodium-ion battery is less than 4.1 V.

Assignees

• Zhuhai Cosmx Battery Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Hai
• Huang Huawen
• Zhu Hui
• Li Suli
• Li Junyi

Classifications

• H01M2004/028

  Positive electrodes · CPC title

• H01M2004/027

  Negative electrodes · CPC title

• H01M2004/021

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

• H01M10/0568

  characterised by the solutes · CPC title

• H01M10/0567

  characterised by the additives · CPC title