Extremely deformable structure and lithium secondary battery made therefrom

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9698390-B2
Application number	US-201614991301-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 8, 2016
Priority date	Jan 8, 2015
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an extremely deformable structure comprising a basic displacement unit having an embedded form, in which m polygonal basic unit cells are disposed adjacent to each other, m separation parts are formed among the m basic unit cells, a junction part connecting the basic unit cells to each other is formed between the basic unit cells in which the junction part has a junction part pattern in which an external junction part disposed at the outer portion of the basic unit cell and an internal junction part which is not in contact with the outer portion of the basic unit cell are sequentially repeated, and the relative positions of the m basic unit cells are changed according to the junction part pattern, and thus, are activated (here, m is an integer of 4 or 6). Further, the present disclosure relates to a lithium secondary battery made from the extremely deformable structure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An extremely deformable structure comprising a basic displacement unit having an embedded form, wherein m polygonal basic unit cells are disposed adjacent to each other, m separation parts are formed among the m basic unit cells, a junction part connecting the basic unit cells to each other is formed between the basic unit cells in which the junction part has a junction part pattern in which an external junction part disposed at an outer portion of the basic unit cell and an internal portion part which is not in contact with the outer portion of the basic unit cell are sequentially repeated, and the relative positions of the m basic unit cells are changed according to the junction part pattern, and thus are activated, wherein m is an integer of 4 or 6.

2. The extremely deformable structure of claim 1 , wherein the extremely deformable structure includes a shape conversion material which is composed of a n-th order hierarchial structure comprising a (primary) displacement unit to an (n-th) order displacement unit, wherein n is an integer of 2 or more.

3. The extremely deformable structure of claim 2 , wherein the (primary) displacement unit comprises m basic displacement units, m separation parts are formed among the m basic displacement units, a junction part connecting the basic displacement units to each other is formed among the basic displacement units, the junction part has a (primary) junction part pattern in which an external junction part disposed at the outer portion of the basic displacement unit and an internal junction part which is not in contact with the outer portion of the basic unit cell are subsequently repeated, and the relative positions of the m basic displacement units are changed depending on the junction part pattern.

4. The extremely deformable structure of claim 3 , wherein the (n-th) order displacement unit comprises m (n−1th) order displacement units, m separation parts are formed among the m (n−1th) order displacement units, a junction part connecting the (n−1th) order displacement units to each other is formed among the (n−1th) order displacement units, the junction part has a (n-th) order junction part pattern in which an external junction part disposed at the outer portion of the (n−1th) order displacement unit and an internal junction part which is not in contact with the outer portion of the basic unit cell are subsequently repeated, and the relative positions of the m (n−1th) order displacement units are changed depending on the junction part pattern.

5. The extremely deformable structure of claim 4 , wherein the junction part pattern of the displacement unit each has junction part 1 to junction part m , each of the junction part 1 to junction part m has a junction part form selected from an external junction part and an internal junction part, and the junction parts adjacent to each other comprise an alpha-type junction part form which is different from junction part forms and a beta-type junction part form which has a junction part form opposite to the alpha-type junction form.

6. The extremely deformable structure of claim 5 , wherein in the (primary) to (n-th) order displacement units, an alpha-type junction part pattern and a beta-type junction part pattern are subsequently alternately formed.

7. The extremely deformable structure of claim 1 , wherein the unit cell and the junction part comprise any one material selected from the group consisting of silicone rubber, a polyester resin, hydrogel, a transition metal, a carbon fiber, and any combination thereof.

8. The extremely deformable structure of claim 1 , wherein the junction part of the basic displacement unit is composed of a structure which is capable of making a 3-dimensional rotational movement.

9. The extremely deformable structure of claim 8 , wherein the junction part has a hinge structure.

10. A lithium secondary battery comprising: a first unit; and an encapsulant which encapsulates the first unit, wherein the encapsulant is composed of the extremely deformable structure of claim 1 .

11. The lithium secondary battery of claim 10 , wherein the first nit comprises a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material and a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material, and a negative electrode current collector, and comprises a negative electrode disposed so as to face the positive electrode, and a separation membrane provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.

12. A lithium secondary battery comprising a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode active material disposed so as to face the positive electrode active material, a separation membrane provided between the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material, and a positive electrode current collector and a negative electrode current collector provided at the outer side of each of the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material, wherein the positive electrode active material and the negative electrode active material are composed of the extremely deformable structure of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Korea Inst Sci & Tech

Inventors

• Choi Insuk
• Kim Kee-Bum
• Oh Kyu Hwan

Classifications

• H01M10/0525 Primary

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

• H01M50/136

  Flexibility or foldability · CPC title

• H01M50/105 Primary

  Pouches or flexible bags · CPC title

• H01M50/119

  Metals · CPC title

• H01M50/121

  Organic material · CPC title