Electrolyte, secondary battery, and electric apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025385321-A1
Application number	US-202519313899-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 29, 2025
Priority date	Apr 18, 2023
Publication date	Dec 18, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

This application provides an electrolyte, a secondary battery, and an electric apparatus. The electrolyte includes a cyclic sulfate compound represented by Formula I and a metal ion additive. The cyclic sulfate compound and the metal ion additive contribute to the formation of a stable SEI film, thereby facilitating an improvement in the rate performance of the battery.

First claim

1 . An electrolyte, characterized in that the electrolyte comprises a cyclic sulfate compound represented by Formula I and a metal ion additive;

wherein in Formula I, R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are each independently selected from a structure represented by Formula II, a hydrogen atom, a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, a halogen atom, a C 1 -C 3 haloalkyl group, a C 1 -C 3 alkoxy group, a C 1 -C 3 haloalkoxy group, a double bond, an ester group, a cyano group, and a sulfonic acid group, and R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are not all selected from a hydrogen atom; and
in Formula II, R 5 and R 6 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, a halogen atom, a C 1 -C 3 haloalkyl group, a C 1 -C 3 alkoxy group, a C 1 -C 3 haloalkoxy group, a double bond, an ester group, a cyano group, and a sulfonic acid group, and a wavy line indicates a bonding position.

2 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are each independently selected from a structure represented by Formula II, a hydrogen atom, a C 1 -C 6 alkyl group, a halogen atom, a C 1 -C 3 haloalkyl group, a C 1 -C 3 alkoxy group, and a cyano group.

3 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that
R 1 is selected from a hydrogen atom and a C 1 -C 3 alkyl group; R 2 is selected from a C 1 -C 3 alkyl group, a halogen atom, a C 1 -C 3 haloalkyl group, a cyano group, or a structure represented by Formula II; R 3 is selected from a hydrogen atom and a C 1 -C 3 alkyl group; and R 4 is selected from a C 1 -C 3 alkyl group, a halogen atom, a C 1 -C 3 alkoxy group, or a structure represented by Formula II.

4 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that
R 1 is selected from a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R 2 is selected from a methyl group, an ethyl group, a fluorine atom, a trifluoromethyl group, a cyano group, or a structure represented by Formula II; R 3 is selected from a hydrogen atom; and R 4 is selected from a methyl group, an ethyl group, a propyl group, a fluorine atom, an ethoxy group, or a structure represented by Formula II.

5 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that
R 1 and R 3 are each a hydrogen atom; R 2 and R 4 are each a methyl group, an ethyl group, a fluorine atom, or a structure represented by Formula II; or R 2 is a methyl group or a structure represented by Formula II, and R 4 is a methyl group.

6 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that
R 1 and R 3 are each a hydrogen atom; and R 2 and R 4 are each a methyl group or a structure represented by Formula II.

7 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that R 5 and R 6 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom and a C 1 -C 3 alkyl group.

8 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that the cyclic sulfate compound is selected from one or more of the following compounds:

9 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that based on a total mass of the electrolyte, a mass content W of the cyclic sulfate compound satisfies: 0.001%≤W≤20%.

10 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that the metal ion additive comprises one or more of alkali metal ions, alkaline earth metal ions, and high-valence metal ions.

11 . The electrolyte according to claim 10 , characterized in that the alkali metal ions comprise one or more of sodium ions, lithium ions, and potassium ions; and/or
based on the total mass of the electrolyte, a mass content of the alkali metal ions is 30 ppm to 3000 ppm.

12 . The electrolyte according to claim 10 , characterized in that the high-valence metal ions comprise one or more of aluminum ions and copper ions; and/or
based on the total mass of the electrolyte, a mass content of the high-valence metal ions is 0.5 ppm to 300 ppm.

13 . The electrolyte according to claim 10 , characterized in that the alkaline earth metal ions comprise one or more of magnesium ions and calcium ions; and/or
based on the total mass of the electrolyte, a mass content of the alkaline earth metal ions is 0.5 ppm to 500 ppm.

14 . The electrolyte according to claim 1 , characterized in that the electrolyte further comprises an electrolytic salt, wherein the electrolytic salt comprises a lithium salt or a sodium salt;
the lithium salt comprises one or more of lithium hexafluorophosphate, lithium perchlorate, lithium tetrafluoroborate, lithium hexafluoroarsenate, lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, lithium difluorobis(oxalato)phosphate, and lithium bis(oxalate)borate; and the sodium salt comprises one or more of sodium hexafluorophosphate, sodium difluoro(oxalate)borate, sodium perchlorate, sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, sodium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, and sodium trifluoromethanesulfonate.

15 . A secondary battery, characterized by comprising a negative electrode plate and the electrolyte according to claim 1 .

16 . The secondary battery according to claim 15 , characterized in that the secondary battery comprises a sodium battery or a lithium battery.

17 . The secondary battery according to claim 15 , characterized in that the negative electrode plate comprises a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material comprises one or more of artificial graphite, natural graphite, hard carbon, soft carbon, mesocarbon microbeads, carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, elemental silicon, a silicon-oxygen compound, a silicon-carbon composite, a silicon alloy, elemental tin, a tin-oxygen compound, and a titanium composite material.

18 . The secondary battery according to claim 15 , characterized in that an active specific surface area A of the negative electrode plate and the mass content W of the cyclic sulfate compound satisfy: 0.0002 cm 2 /g≤W×A≤0.04 cm 2 /g.

19 . The secondary battery according to claim 18 , characterized in that the active specific surface area A of the negative electrode plate satisfies: A≤20 cm 2 /g.

20 . An electric apparatus, characterized by comprising the secondary battery according to claim 15 .

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Jiao
• Zhang Limei
• Chen Peipei
• Ren Jiamo
• Peng Chang

Classifications

• H01M2300/0025

  Organic electrolyte · CPC title

• H01M10/0568

  characterised by the solutes · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

  Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries · CPC title

• C07D411/14

  containing three or more hetero rings · CPC title

• C07D411/04

  directly linked by a ring-member-to-ring-member bond · CPC title