Lithium ion secondary battery
View Patent ↗There is provided a lithium ion secondary battery with a high capacity and having excellent cycle characteristics. The lithium ion secondary battery, including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and a nonaqueous electrolyte liquid. Here, the positive electrode comprises a positive electrode material in which a surface of particles of a positive electrode active material is coated with an Al-containing oxide. The Al-containing oxide has an average coating thickness of 5 to 50 nm. The positive electrode active material contained in the positive electrode material comprises a lithium cobalt oxide comprising Co and at least one kind of an element M 1 selected from the group consisting of Mg, Zr, Ni, Mn, Ti and Al. The negative electrode comprises a material S including SiO x (0.5≦x≦1.5) as a negative electrode active material, wherein in 100 mass % of a total of the negative electrode active material included in the negative electrode, the materials S is included in the negative electrode active material at a content of 10 mass % or more.
1. A lithium ion secondary battery, comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and a nonaqueous electrolyte liquid,
wherein the positive electrode comprises:
a first positive electrode material in which a surface of particles of a positive electrode active material is coated with an Al-containing oxide, wherein a coating of the Al-containing oxide has an average coating thickness of 5 to 50 nm,
wherein the positive electrode active material contained in the positive electrode material comprises a lithium cobalt oxide comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Zr, Ni, Mn, Ti and Al; and
a second positive electrode material comprising a lithium nickel oxide comprising Co and Al,
wherein the negative electrode comprises a material S including SiO x (0.5≦x≦1.5) as a negative electrode active material,
wherein in 100 mass % of a total of the negative electrode active material included in the negative electrode, the materials S is included in the negative electrode active material at a content from 10 mass % to 100 mass %.
2. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein at the time when the lithium ion secondary battery is discharged at an discharge current rate of 0.1 C to reach a voltage of 2.0V, a molar ratio (Li/M) of Li and a metal M except for Li is 0.9 to 1.05, wherein said Li and said metal M are contained in the positive electrode material and the positive electrode active material in the positive electrode.
3. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the positive electrode material has a specific surface area of 0.1 to 0.4 m 2 /g.
4. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode comprises a negative electrode composition layer including the negative electrode active material, the negative electrode composition layer being formed on one surface or both surfaces of a current collector, wherein the current collector is made of a current collection foil having a through hole penetrating from one surface thereof to the other surface thereof.
5. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte liquid includes a nitrile additive at a content from 0.1 mass % to 7 mass %.
6. The lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte liquid includes 1,3-dioxane at a content from 0.1 mass % to 5 mass %.