IP Library Granted Patent US 8,753,774
Granted Patent B2
US 8,753,774 · App. 13/052,710 · Granted Jun 17, 2014

Negative electrode material for secondary battery having lithium-doped silicon-silicon oxide composite

Inventor: Nobuo Kawada (Annaka, JP)
Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,753,774
App. No.
13/052,710
Granted
Jun 17, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for manufacturing a negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte, including coating a surface of a powder with 1 to 40 mass % carbon by heat CVD treatment under an organic gas and/or vapor atmosphere at a temperature between 800° C. and 1300° C., blending lithium hydride and/or lithium aluminum hydride with the carbon-coated powder; and heating the carbon-coated powder at a temperature between 200° C. and 800° C. to be doped with lithium at a doping amount of 0.1 to 20 mass %. The powder is composed of at least one of silicon oxide represented by general formula of SiO x (x=0.5 to 1.6) and a silicon-silicon oxide composite having a structure so that silicon particles having a size of 50 nm or less are dispersed to silicon oxide in an atomic order and/or a crystallite state, and having a Si/O molar ratio of 1/0.5 to 1/1.6.

Claims (13)

1. A negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising at least:

a silicon-silicon oxide composite having a structure that silicon particles having a size of 0.5 to 50 nm are dispersed to silicon oxide in an atomic order and/or a crystallite state, the silicon-silicon oxide composite having a Si/O molar ratio of 1/0.5 to 1/1.6; and

a carbon coating formed on a surface of the silicon-silicon oxide composite at a coating amount of 1 to 40 mass % with respect to an amount of the silicon-silicon oxide composite, wherein at least

the silicon-silicon oxide composite is doped with lithium at a doping amount of 0.1 to 20 mass % with respect to an amount of the silicon-silicon oxide composite, and a ratio I(SiC)/I(Si) of a peak intensity I(SiC) attributable to SiC of 2θ=35.8±0.2° to a peak intensity I(Si) attributable to Si of 2θ=28.4±0.2° satisfies a relation of I(SiC)/I(Si)≦0.03, when x-ray diffraction using Cu—Kα ray.

2. The negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte according to claim 1 , wherein a peak attributable to lithium aluminate is further observed in the negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte, when the x-ray diffraction using Cu—Kα ray.

3. A lithium ion secondary battery having at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte having lithium ion conductivity, wherein

the negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte according to claim 1 is used for the negative electrode.

4. A lithium ion secondary battery having at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte having lithium ion conductivity, wherein

the negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte according to claim 2 is used for the negative electrode.

5. A method for manufacturing a negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising at least:

coating a surface of powder with carbon at a coating amount of 1 to 40 mass % with respect to an amount of the powder by heat CVD treatment under an organic gas and/or vapor atmosphere at a temperature between 800° C. and 1300° C., the powder being composed of at least one of silicon oxide represented by a general formula of SiO x (x=0.5 to 1.6) and a silicon-silicon oxide composite having a structure that silicon particles having a size of 50 nm or less are dispersed to silicon oxide in an atomic order and/or a crystallite state, the silicon-silicon oxide composite having a Si/O molar ratio of 1/0.5 to 1/1.6;

blending lithium hydride and/or lithium aluminum hydride with the powder coated with carbon; and

thereafter heating the powder coated with carbon at a temperature between 200° C. and 800° C. to be doped with lithium at a doping amount of 0.1 to 20 mass % with respect to an amount of the powder.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 21, 2011
From: KAWADA, NOBUO
To: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2010-086914 · Apr 5, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110244333A1 · Oct 6, 2011