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-9911976-B2
Application number	US-201715673776-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 10, 2017
Priority date	Dec 27, 2012
Publication date	Mar 6, 2018
Grant date	Mar 6, 2018

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 method for manufacturing a negative electrode active material, the method comprising:
a dry grinding process of performing a dry grinding on a silicon starting material under an inert atmosphere to prepare a dry ground product of which a surface is prevented from being oxidized; and
a wet grinding and dispersing process of putting the dry ground product, an added material, and an additive into a solvent, and then performing a wet grinding on the mixture and dispersing the mixture to manufacture a slurry,
wherein at least one of the dry grinding process and the wet grinding and dispersing process is performed by a beads mill process, and
wherein the wet grinding process is performed such that the starting material has an average particle diameter of 5 nm to 200 nm.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the added material is one or more selected from the group consisting of graphite, graphene, carbon nanotube, carbon fiber, amorphous carbon, and a lithium ion solid electrolyte, and
wherein the additive is one or more selected from the group consisting of coal-tar pitch and a polycyclic aromatic compound.

3. The method of claim 2 , 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 3-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 .

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the solvent comprises a non-protic solvent having no proton donor ability or a protic solvent having proton donor ability,
wherein the non-protic solvent is one or more selected from the group consisting of a cyclic hydrocarbon, an aromatic compound, a ketone-based solvent, an ether-based solvent, an ester-based solvent, an amide-based solvent, and a nitrile-based solvent, and
wherein the protic solvent is one or more selected from the group consisting of alcohol and water.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: a calcination process of obtaining a negative electrode active material by calcining the manufactured slurry after the wet grinding and dispersing process, wherein the calcination process is performed under reduced pressure or under an inert atmosphere.

6. A conductive composition for a secondary battery, in which carbon is dispersed in a solvent,
wherein the solvent is a non-protic solvent having no proton donor ability or a protic solvent having proton donor ability,
wherein the non-protic solvent is one or more selected from the group consisting of a hydrocarbon, an aromatic compound, a ketone-based solvent, an ether-based solvent, an ester-based solvent, an amide-based solvent, and a nitrile-based solvent,
wherein the protic solvent is one or more selected from the group consisting of water and alcohol,
wherein the carbon is one or more selected from the group consisting of fibrous carbon, a carbon particle with a graphene structure, and carbon black, and
wherein one or more additives are added, the additives selected from the group consisting of coal-tar pitch and a polycyclic aromatic compound.

7. The conductive composition of claim 6 , wherein the fibrous carbon has an average diameter of 10 to 200 nm, the particle with a graphene structure has an average particle diameter of 10 to 200 nm, and the carbon black has an average particle diameter of 10 to 80 nm, has a structure in which a plurality of primary particles is connected in a bead-like shape, and has a crystal particle size of 2 to 5 nm.

8. The conductive composition of claim 6 , wherein the carbon has a content of 0.05 to 1.0 g/L.

9. A negative electrode material for a secondary battery comprising:
a negative electrode active material comprising:
a silicon particle or a silicon-carbon composite comprising the silicon particle and carbon,
wherein the silicon particle has an average particle diameter of 5 to 200 nm,
wherein the silicon particle is manufactured through a dry grinding under an inert atmosphere to prevent the surface from being oxidized,
wherein the silicon-carbon composite has an average particle diameter of 5 to 20 μm;
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 μm, 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; 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;
a conductive composition comprising carbon dispersed in a solvent,
wherein the solvent is a non-protic solvent having no proton donor ability or a protic solvent having proton donor ability,
wherein the non-protic solvent is one or more selected from the group consisting of a hydrocarbon, an aromatic compound, a ketone-based solvent, an ether-based solvent, an ester-based solvent, an amide-based solvent, and a nitrile-based solvent,
wherein the protic solvent is one or more selected from the group consisting of water and alcohol,
wherein the carbon is one or more selected from the group consisting of fibrous carbon, a carbon particle with a graphene structure, and carbon black, and
wherein one or more additives are added, the additives selected from the group consisting of coal-tar pitch and a polycyclic aromatic compound;
and
a binder mixed with a solvent.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H01M2300/0071

  Oxides · CPC title

• H01M4/0471 Primary

  involving thermal treatment, e.g. firing, sintering, backing particulate active material, thermal decomposition, pyrolysis · CPC title

• H01M2220/20

  Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane · CPC title

• H01M4/386

  Silicon or alloys based on silicon · CPC title

• H01M10/052

  Li-accumulators · CPC title