Lithium ion battery
View Patent ↗A battery is provided. In the battery including a cathode, an anode having an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector, said anode active material layer containing a carbon material as an anode active material, and an electrolyte solution, the anode active material layer contains nano-particles of ceramic. The battery limits the precipitation of lithium on the surface of the anode, improves energy density and has an excellent cycle characteristics.
1. A lithium ion battery comprising:
a cathode;
an anode having an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector, said anode active material layer containing a carbon material as an anode active material; and
an electrolyte solution,
wherein the anode active material layer contains nano-particles of ceramic,
the median diameter of the ceramic is 100 nm or less, and
the content of the ceramic is 0.1 parts by weight or more and 2.0 parts by weight or less for 100 parts by weight of the anode active material.
2. The lithium ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the ceramic is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Al 2 O 3 , SiO 2 , ZrO 2 , MgO, Na 2 O and TiO 2 .
3. The lithium ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the ceramic is Al 2 O 3 .
4. The lithium ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the median diameter of the ceramic is 15 nm or less.
5. The lithium ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the anode active material layer provided on one surface of the anode current collector is 65 μm or more and 120 μm or less.
6. The lithium ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the volume density of the anode active material layer is 1.70 g/cm 3 or more and 1.95 g/cm 3 or less.
7. The lithium ion battery according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon material is composed of mesophase spherules.