Non-aqueous electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery comprising the same
View Patent ↗Disclosed are a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery may include difluorotoluene having a lowest oxidation potential among components of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The lithium secondary battery may have improvement in basic performance including high rate charge/discharge characteristics, cycle life characteristics, and the like, and may remarkably reduce swelling caused by decomposition of an electrolyte solution under high voltage conditions such as overcharge.
1. A lithium secondary battery, comprising:
an anode;
a cathode; and
a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, comprising:
a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and
difluorotoluene, represented by the following chemical formula 1, having the lowest oxidation potential among components of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution:
where the position of fluorines is at least one selected from the group consisting of 2,3-, 2,4-, 2,5-, 2,6-, 3,4-, and 3,5-, and
wherein the content of difluorotoluene is 1 to 15 weight % per the total weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution.
2. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the position of fluorines of the above chemical formula 1 is at least one selected from the group consisting of 2,5-, 3,4-, and 3,5-.
3. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the organic solvent is a carbonate-based organic solvent.
4. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 3 ,
wherein the carbonate-based organic solvent is a mixture of cyclic carbonate and linear carbonate.
5. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 4 ,
wherein the cyclic carbonate is at least one selected from the group consisting of ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, fluoroethylene carbonate, and butylene carbonate, and the linear carbonate is at least one selected from the group consisting of dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate, methylethyl carbonate, methylpropyl carbonate, and dipropyl carbonate.
6. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 1 ,
wherein the lithium salt is at least one selected from the group consisting of LiPF 6 , LiBF 4 , LiSbF 6 , LiAsF 6 , LiClO 4 , LiN(C 2 F 5 SO 2 ) 2 , LiN(CF 3 SO 2 ) 2 , CF 3 SO 3 Li, LiC(CF 3 SO 2 ) 3 , and LiC 4 BO 8 .
7. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 1 , said non-aqueous electrolyte solution further comprising:
any one selected from the group consisting of vinylene carbonate, a sultone-based compound, and mixtures thereof.
8. The lithium secondary battery according to claim 7 ,
wherein the sultone-based compound is 1,3-propane sultone.
9. A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery comprising a lithium salt and an organic solvent, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprising:
difluorotoluene, represented by the following chemical formula 1, having the lowest oxidation potential among components of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution:
where the position of fluorines is at least one selected from the group consisting of 3,4- and 3,5-, wherein the content of the difluorotoluene is 1 to 15 weight % per total weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution.