IP Library Granted Patent US 12,002,958
Granted Patent B2
US 12,002,958 · App. 17/928,195 · Granted Jun 4, 2024

Composite particles, negative electrode active material, and lithium-ion secondary battery

Inventors: Naoto Kawaguchi (Tokyo, JP); Yuji Ito (Tokyo, JP); Masato Fujita (Tokyo, JP); Hirofumi Inoue (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Resonac Corporation
H01M4/587C01B32/318C01B32/342C01B32/372H01M4/366H01M4/386H01M4/622H01M4/625C01P2002/02C01P2002/72C01P2002/74C01P2002/82C01P2004/61C01P2004/80C01P2006/10C01P2006/12C01P2006/40H01M2004/021H01M2004/027
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Patent No.
US 12,002,958
App. No.
17/928,195
Granted
Jun 4, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to composite particles containing silicon and carbon, wherein a domain size region of vacancies of 2 nm or less is 44% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less when volume distribution information of domain sizes obtained by fitting a small-angle X-ray scattering spectrum of the composite particles with a spherical model in a carbon-vacancy binary system is accumulated in ascending order, and a true density calculated by dry density measurement by a constant volume expansion method using helium gas is 1.80 g/cm 3 or more and 2.20 g/cm 3 or less.

Claims (14)

1. Composite particles comprising:

silicon and carbon,

wherein a domain size region of 2 nm or less is 44% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less when volume distribution information of domain sizes of vacancies obtained by fitting a small-angle X-ray scattering spectrum of the composite particles with a spherical model in a carbon-vacancy binary system is accumulated in ascending order, and

a true density calculated by dry density measurement by a constant volume expansion method using helium gas is 1.80 g/cm 3 or more and 2.20 g/cm 3 or less.

2. The composite particles according to claim 1 , wherein a content of silicon in the composite particles is 30% by mass or more and 80% by mass or less, and a content of oxygen is 0.1% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less when the content of silicon in the composite particles is designated as 100% by mass.

3. The composite particles according to claim 1 , wherein a peak attributed to silicon is present at 450 to 495 cm −1 in a Raman spectrum.

4. The composite particles according to claim 1 , wherein R value (ID/IG) in the Raman spectrum is 0.30 or more and less than 1.30.

5. The composite particles according to claim 1 , wherein (peak intensity of SiC 111 plane)/(peak intensity of Si 111 plane) is 0.01 or less, in an XRD pattern measured by powder XRD using a Cu-Kα radiation.

6. The composite particles according to claim 1 , wherein the composite particles have an average particle size D V50 of 1.0 μm or more and 30 μm or less, and have a BET specific surface area of 0.1 m 2 /g or more and 100 m 2 /g or less.

7. The composite particles according to claim 1 , wherein inorganic particles and a polymer are present on at least a part of surfaces of the composite particles, a content of polymer is 0.1% by mass to 10.0% by mass, and the inorganic particles are one or more selected from graphite and carbon black.

8. The composite particles according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon is amorphous carbon.

9. A negative electrode active material comprising the composite particles according to claim 1 .

10. A negative electrode mixture layer comprising the negative electrode active material according to claim 9 .

11. A lithium-ion secondary battery comprising the negative electrode mixture layer according to claim 10 .

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: GROUP14 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 068473/0951 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 9, 2024
From: RESONAC CORPORATION
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066547/0677 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 23, 2023
From: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
To: RESONAC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064082/0513 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 30, 2022
From: KAWAGUCHI, NAOTO; ITO, YUJI; FUJITA, MASATO; INOUE, HIROFUMI
To: SHOWA DENKO K. K.
Reel/Frame 061929/0491 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2020-093159 · May 28, 2020 · national
JP 2021-005095 · Jan 15, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
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