Negative electrode active material for secondary battery, conductive composition for secondary battery, negative electrode material comprising same, negative electrode structure and secondary battery comprising same, and method for manufacturing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9761869-B2
Application number	US-201314441107-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2013
Priority date	Dec 27, 2012
Publication date	Sep 12, 2017
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017

Abstract

The present invention relates to a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery, a conductive composition for a secondary battery, a negative electrode material including the same, a negative electrode structure and secondary battery including the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The present invention includes: a silicon particle; and an amorphous surface layer formed on the surface of the silicon particle. According to the present invention, the negative electrode structure is formed of a composite of a silicon particle and carbon or lithium ion, the oxygen contents of the solid electrolyte and silicon particles are low, and thus aggregation of silicon particles is inhibited. Therefore, in the event of using the negative electrode structure in a negative electrode, a power storage device such as a lithium secondary battery may have high energy density, high output density, and a longer charging/discharging life cycle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery, comprising:
a silicon particle having an average particle diameter of 5 to 200 nm; and
an amorphous surface layer comprising amorphous carbon on a surface of the silicon particle, the amorphous surface layer having a thickness of 1 to 10 nm, and where an insulating oxidation film is suppressed from being formed on a surface of silicon particle;
wherein the silicon particle is manufactured through a dry grinding under an inert atmosphere to prevent the surface from being oxidized; and
wherein the silicon particle has a primary particle having a long diameter, a small diameter and a thickness, the long diameter is 50 to 300 nm, the small diameter is 30 to 200 nm, and the thickness is 10 to 50 nm.

2. A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery, comprising:
a silicon-carbon composite comprising a silicon particle and carbon, the silicon-carbon composite having an average particle diameter of 5 to 20 μm, and where an insulating oxidation film is suppressed from being formed on a surface of silicon particle;
an amorphous surface layer comprising amorphous carbon on a surface of the silicon particle, the amorphous surface layer having a thickness of 1 to 10 nm,
wherein the silicon particle is in contact with the carbon, the silicon particle having an average particle diameter of 5 to 200 nm, and
wherein the carbon is one or more selected from the group consisting of a carbon particle with a graphene structure having an average particle diameter of 300 nm to 10 urn, fibrous carbon having an average diameter of 10 to 200 nm, a fibrous carbon having an average diameter of 10 to 200 nm, and carbon black having a primary particle with a bead-like connected structure, the primary particle having an average particle diameter of 10 to 80 nm and a crystal size of 2 to 5 nm, and
wherein the carbon particle with a graphene structure is one or more selected from the group consisting of graphene and graphite, and
wherein the fibrous carbon is one or more selected from the group consisting of carbon nanofiber and carbon nanotube.

3. The negative electrode active material for a secondary battery of claim 2 , wherein the silicon-carbon composite further comprises a lithium ion solid electrolyte particle, and the silicon particle is in contact with the lithium ion solid electrolyte particle.

4. The negative electrode active material for a secondary battery of claim 3 , wherein the lithium ion solid electrolyte is one or more selected from the group consisting of a sulfur-based amorphous electrolyte comprising Li 2 S—P 2 O 5 , a sulfur-containing glass, lithium nitride (Li 3 N), a material with a NASICON structure comprising Li 1+x+y Al x Ti 2−x Si y P y O 12 (x=0.3, y=0.2), a material with a garnet structure comprising Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 , and a germanium-phosphorus-sulfur compound comprising Li 10 GeP 2 S 12 .

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kawakami Soichiro
• Lee Ju Myeung
• Jung Hyun Ju
• Chang Dong Gyu

Classifications

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title

• H01M4/366 Primary

  as layered products · CPC title

• H01M4/134

  Electrodes based on metals, Si or alloys · CPC title

• H01M4/386

  Silicon or alloys based on silicon · CPC title

• H01M4/625

  Carbon or graphite · CPC title