IP Library Granted Patent US 10,693,130
Granted Patent B2
US 10,693,130 · App. 14/437,674 · Granted Jun 23, 2020

Negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery, negative electrode for lithium ion secondary battery, and lithium ion secondary battery

Inventors: Masayuki Kouzu (Hitachi, JP); Hideyuki Tsuchiya (Hitachi, JP); Katsutomo Ohzeki (Chiba, JP); Yoshie Oosaki (Chiba, JP); Tatsuya Nishida (Hitachi, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
H01M4/366H01M4/131H01M4/133H01M4/386H01M4/485H01M4/625H01M4/364H01M4/587H01M10/0525H01M2004/027
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Patent No.
US 10,693,130
App. No.
14/437,674
Granted
Jun 23, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery including carbon over a part or a whole of a surface of an oxide of silicon, in which the content of the carbon is from 0.5 mass-% to less than 5 mass-%.

Claims (24)

1. A lithium ion secondary battery, comprising:

a positive electrode;

a negative electrode; and

an electrolyte,

wherein the negative electrode comprises:

a current collector; and

a negative electrode material layer provided on the current collector and comprising a negative electrode material (SiOx-C) and a carbonaceous electrode material (C),

wherein the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) comprises an oxide of silicon and silicon crystallites, and carbon over a part or a whole of a surface of the oxide of silicon, wherein the content of the carbon with respect to the whole negative electrode material (SiOx-C) is from 0.5 mass % to 4.5 mass %, wherein a crystallite size of the silicon crystallites is 2 nm or more and 8 nm or less, wherein the oxide of silicon is represented by a formula SiOx (x is 0<x≤2), and wherein a ratio of the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) to the carbonaceous negative electrode material (C) is from 0.1:99.9 to 20:80 in terms of mass.

2. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon included in the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) comprises low crystallinity carbon.

3. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a diffraction peak assignable to Si (111) is observed when the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) is subjected to a powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis.

4. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the content of the carbon included in the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) with respect to the whole negative electrode material (SiOx-C) is from 0.5 mass % to 4.0 mass %.

5. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon included in the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) has an R value, defined as a ratio Id/Ig of a peak Id in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1300 cm −1 and 1400 cm −1 to a peak Ig in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1530 cm −1 and 1630 cm −1 , is 0.5 or more.

6. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 4 , wherein the carbon included in the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) has an R value, defined as a ratio Id/Ig of a peak Id in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1300 cm −1 and 1400 cm −1 to a peak Ig in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1530 cm −1 and 1630 cm −1 , is more than 0.5.

7. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 4 , wherein the carbon included in the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) has an R value, defined as a ratio Id/Ig of a peak Id in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1300 cm −1 and 1400 cm −1 to a peak Ig in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1530 cm −1 and 1630 cm −1 , is from 0.7 to 1.3.

8. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 4 , wherein the carbon included in the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) has an R value, defined as a ratio Id/Ig of a peak Id in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1300 cm −1 and 1400 cm −1 to a peak Ig in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1530 cm −1 and 1630 cm −1 , is from 0.8 to 1.2.

9. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the content of the carbon included in the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) with respect to the whole negative electrode material (SiOx-C) is from 0.5 mass % to 4.0 mass % and wherein the carbon included in the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) has an R value, defined as a ratio Id/Ig of a peak Id in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1300 cm −1 and 1400 cm −1 to a peak Ig in a profile obtained by laser Raman spectrometry with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm observed between 1530 cm −1 and 1630 cm −1 , is more than 0.5 and 1.5 or less.

10. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon over a part or a whole of the surface of the oxide of silicon is obtained by heat-treating a mixture of particles of an oxide of silicon and coal pitch.

11. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the crystallite size of the silicon crystallites is from 3 nm to 6 nm.

12. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio of the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) to the carbonaceous negative electrode material (C) is from 1:99 to 10:90 in terms of mass.

13. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 5 , wherein the R value is from 0.7 to 1.3.

14. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 5 , wherein the R value is from 0.8 to 1.2.

15. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 9 , wherein the ratio of the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) to the carbonaceous negative electrode material (C) is from 1:99 to 10:90 in terms of mass.

16. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 11 , wherein the ratio of the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) to the carbonaceous negative electrode material (C) is from 1:99 to 10:90 in terms of mass.

17. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 10 , wherein the ratio of the negative electrode material (SiOx-C) to the carbonaceous negative electrode material (C) is from 1:99 to 10:90 in terms of mass.

Assignments (5)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 14, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066599/0037 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 3, 2023
From: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062946/0125 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 2, 2023
From: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
To: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 062917/0865 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 9, 2021
From: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
To: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057450/0511 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 22, 2015
From: KOUZU, MASAYUKI; TSUCHIYA, HIDEYUKI; OHZEKI, KATSUTOMO; OOSAKI, YOSHIE; NISHIDA, TATSUYA
To: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 036153/0124 →