IP Library Granted Patent US 11,094,931
Granted Patent B2
US 11,094,931 · App. 16/966,347 · Granted Aug 17, 2021

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

Inventors: Akira Yasuda (Tokyo, JP); Yoshie Ohsaki (Tokyo, JP); Tatsuya Nishida (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.
H01M4/366H01M4/483H01M4/625H01M10/0525H01M2004/021H01M2004/027
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Patent No.
US 11,094,931
App. No.
16/966,347
Granted
Aug 17, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery includes silicon oxide particles, each of which has carbon on at least a portion of its surface, in which: a ratio (P Si /P SiO2 ) of an intensity of an X-ray diffraction peak at 2θ of from 27° to 29°, which is derived from Si, to an intensity of an X-ray diffraction peak at 2θ of from 20° to 25°, which is derived from SiO 2 , is within a range of from 1.0 to 2.6, when CuKα radiation having a wavelength of 0.15406 nm is used as a radiation source; and a ratio (S H2O /S N2 ) of a specific surface area calculated from moisture adsorption at 298 K to a specific surface area calculated from nitrogen adsorption at 77 K is 0.60 or less.

Claims (20)

1. A negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, the negative electrode active material comprising silicon oxide particles, each of which has carbon on at least a portion of its surface, wherein:

a ratio (P Si /P SiO2 ) of an intensity of an X-ray diffraction peak at 2θ of from 27° to 29°, which is derived from Si, to an intensity of an X-ray diffraction peak at 2θ of from 20° to 25°, which is derived from SiO 2 , is within a range of from 1.0 to 2.6, when CuKα radiation having a wavelength of 0.15406 nm is used as a radiation source; and

a ratio (S H2O /S N2 ) of a specific surface area calculated from moisture adsorption at 298 K to a specific surface area calculated from nitrogen adsorption at 77 K is 0.60 or less,

wherein the negative electrode active material has a ratio (D10%/D90%) of 0.1 or greater, in which D90% is a particle diameter corresponding to 90% cumulative from a smaller particle diameter side in a cumulative volume distribution curve obtained by a laser diffraction/scattering method, and D10% is a particle diameter corresponding to 10% cumulative from the smaller particle diameter side in the cumulative volume distribution curve.

2. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein an mean aspect ratio represented by a ratio (S/L) of a minor axis S to a major axis L is within a range of 0.45≤S/L≤1.

3. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a content of the carbon is within a range from 0.1% by mass to 10.0% by mass of a total of the silicon oxide particles and the carbon.

4. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , the negative electrode active material having a diffraction peak that is attributed to Si (111) in X-ray diffraction spectra, wherein a size of silicon crystallites calculated from the diffraction peak is from 1.0 nm to 15.0 nm.

5. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a volume mean particle diameter is from 0.1 μm to 20 μm.

6. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein a specific surface area calculated from nitrogen adsorption at 77 K is from 0.1 m 2 /g to 10 m 2 /g.

7. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , further comprising a carbon-based negative electrode active material.

8. A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, the negative electrode comprising:

a current collector; and

a negative electrode material layer that is provided on or above the current collector and that comprises the negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 .

9. A lithium ion secondary battery, comprising:

a positive electrode;

the negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 8 ; and

an electrolyte.

10. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode active material has a ratio (D10%/D90%) of 1.0 or less.

11. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode active material has a ratio (D10%/D90%) of 0.8 or less.

12. The negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery according to claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode active material has a ratio (D10%/D90%) of 0.6 or less.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 14, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066599/0037 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 8, 2023
From: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062992/0805 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 8, 2021
From: YASUDA, AKIRA
To: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 056788/0099 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 8, 2021
From: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
To: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056790/0810 →