IP Library Granted Patent US 9,601,775
Granted Patent B2
US 9,601,775 · App. 14/360,887 · Granted Mar 21, 2017

Binder composition for secondary battery positive electrode, slurry composition for secondary battery positive electrode, secondary battery positive electrode, and secondary battery

Inventors: Mayumi Fukumine (Tokyo, JP); Kei Kobayashi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
H01M4/622H01M4/0404H01M4/0416H01M4/139H01M10/0525H01M2220/30Y02P70/54
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Patent No.
US 9,601,775
App. No.
14/360,887
Granted
Mar 21, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a binder composition which has high electrolyte resistance characteristics, and a secondary battery which uses a positive electrode using the binder composition for high-temperature cycle characteristics. [Solution] The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode according to the present invention contains a polymerized unit which contains a nitrile group; a polymerized unit of (meth) acrylic acid ester; a polymerized unit which contains a hydrophilic group; and a polymerized unit of linear alkylene having a carbon number of at least four. In a mixed solvent in which a volume ratio EC:DEC between ethylene carbonate (EC) and diethyl carbonate (DEC) at 20° C. is 1:2, a degree of swelling with respect to an electrolyte in which LiPF 6 is dissolved to have a concentration of 1.0 mol/L is between 100% and 500%.

Claims (23)

1. A binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode comprising a binder including a polymer unit having nitrile group, (meth)acrylate polymer unit, a polymer unit having hydrophilic group, and a polymer unit of linear alkylene wherein the linear alkylene has carbon atoms of 4 or more; wherein,

a swelling degree of said binder in an electrolytic solution dissolved with LiPF 6 of a concentration of 1.0 mol/L in a mixture solution formed by mixing ethylene carbonate (EC) and diethyl carbonate (DEC) having the volume ratio at 20° C. of EC:DEC=1:2 is 100 to 500%.

2. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a content ratio of said (meth)acrylate polymer unit is 5 to 50 wt %.

3. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 2 , wherein a content ratio of said polymer unit having nitrile group is 2 to 50 wt %.

4. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 3 , wherein a content ratio of said polymer unit having hydrophilic group is 0.05 to 20 wt %.

5. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 3 , wherein carbon atoms of alkyl groups bonding with a non-carbonyl oxygen atom of said (meth)acrylate polymer unit is 4 to 10.

6. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 2 , wherein a content ratio of said polymer unit having hydrophilic group is 0.05 to 20 wt %.

7. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 2 , wherein carbon atoms of alkyl groups bonding with a non-carbonyl oxygen atom of said (meth)acrylate polymer unit is 4 to 10.

8. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a content ratio of said polymer unit having nitrile group is 2 to 50 wt %.

9. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 8 , wherein a content ratio of said polymer unit having hydrophilic group is 0.05 to 20 wt %.

10. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 8 , wherein carbon atoms of alkyl groups bonding with a non-carbonyl oxygen atom of said (meth)acrylate polymer unit is 4 to 10.

11. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a content ratio of said polymer unit having hydrophilic group is 0.05 to 20 wt %.

12. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 11 , wherein carbon atoms of alkyl groups bonding with a non-carbonyl oxygen atom of said (meth)acrylate polymer unit is 4 to 10.

13. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 1 , wherein carbon atoms of alkyl groups bonding with a non-carbonyl oxygen atom of said (meth)acrylate polymer unit is 4 to 10.

14. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a solubility parameter (SP value) of said binder is 9.0 (cal/cm 3 ) 1/2 or more and less than 11 (cal/cm 3 ) 1/2 .

15. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 1 , wherein an iodine value of said binder is 3 to 60 mg/100 mg.

16. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a glass transition temperature of said binder is 25° C. or less.

17. A slurry composition for the secondary battery positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material and the binder composition for the secondary battery electrode as set forth in claim 1 .

18. A secondary battery positive electrode wherein the positive electrode active materials made of the slurry composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 17 is formed on a current collector.

19. A secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolytic solution, wherein and said positive electrode is the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 18 .

20. A production method of a secondary battery positive electrode comprising steps of coating and drying the slurry composition for the secondary battery as set forth in claim 17 on at least to one face of the current collector.

21. The positive electrode for the secondary battery as set forth in claim 1 , wherein said polymer unit of linear alkylene wherein the linear alkylene has carbon atoms of 4 or more is formed by hydrogenating at least part of a carbon-carbon double bond of a structural unit formed by polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer having carbon atoms of 4 or more.

22. The binder composition for the secondary battery positive electrode as set forth in claim 1 , wherein a content ratio of said polymer unit of linear alkylene is 20 to 98 wt %.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 15, 2014
From: FUKUMINE, MAYUMI; KOBAYASHI, KEI
To: ZEON CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (3)
JP 2011-258637 · Nov 28, 2011 · national
JP 2011-258638 · Nov 28, 2011 · national
JP 2012-017060 · Jan 30, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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