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US 10,305,140 · App. 14/710,987 · Granted May 28, 2019

Sulfide solid electrolyte material, battery, and method for producing sulfide solid electrolyte material

Inventors: Yuki Kato (Susono, JP); Takamasa Ohtomo (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H01M10/0562C01B17/22C01B25/14H01M10/052H01M2300/0068
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Patent No.
US 10,305,140
App. No.
14/710,987
Granted
May 28, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material having satisfactory ion conductivity. In the present invention, the above object is solved by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material comprising a Li element, a Si element, a P element, a S element, and an X element (in which X represents at least one of F, Cl, Br and I), the sulfide solid electrolyte material having a crystal phase B having a peak at the position of 2θ=30.12°±1.00° measured by X-ray diffractometry using CuKα ray.

Claims (20)

1. A sulfide solid electrolyte material, comprising a Li element, a Si element, a P element, a S element, and an X element (in which X represents at least one of F, Cl, Br and I),

wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte material has a crystal phase B that has peaks at positions of 2θ=15.60° ±1.00°, 18.04° ±1.00°, 25.60° ±1.00°, 30.12°±1.00°, and 31.46° ±1.00°, and that does not have a peak at a position of 27.33° ±1.00°, measured by X-ray diffractometry using CuKαray,

wherein when the diffraction intensity of the peak of 2θ=30.12° ±1.00° is designated as I 1 , and the diffraction intensity of the peak of 2θ=31.46° ±1.00° is designated as I 2 , a value of a ratio I 1 /I 2 is in a range of 1.4 to 2.8, and

wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte material has a composition of y(LiX)·(100−y) (Li (4-x) Si (1-x) P x S 4 ), in which x satisfies the relationship: 0.55≤×≤0.7, and y satisfies the relationship: 20≤y ≤60.

2. The sulfide solid electrolyte material according to claim 1 , wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte material has a crystal phase A having a peak at a position of 2θ=29.58°±1.00° measured by X-ray diffractometry using CuKαray.

3. The sulfide solid electrolyte material according to claim 2 , wherein when a diffraction intensity of the peak at 2θ=29.58° ±1.00° is designated as I A , and a diffraction intensity of the peak at 2θ=30.12° ±1.00° is designated as I B , a value of a ratio I A /I B is 1.3 or less.

4. The sulfide solid electrolyte material according to claim 1 , wherein x satisfies the relationship: x =0.6.

5. The sulfide solid electrolyte material according to claim 1 , wherein η represented by the following formula satisfies the relationship: 8.2≤η≤9.5:

η=Σ I=1 N V I m I /Σm α ,

in which v I represents a valence of cationic elements comprising the Li element, the Si element, and the P element; m I represents a number of moles of the cationic element; N represents a total number of cation species included in the sulfide solid electrolyte material; and m α represents a number of moles of cationic elements excluding the Li element.

6. The sulfide solid electrolyte material according to claim 1 , wherein γ represented by the following formula satisfies the relationship: 3.6≤γ≤4.9:

γ=m Li /Σm α ,

in which m Li represents a number of moles of the Li element; and m α represents a number of moles of cationic elements comprising the Si element and the P element, and excluding the Li element.

7. The sulfide solid electrolyte material according to claim 1 , wherein X represents Cl.

8. A battery comprising a cathode active material layer containing a cathode active material; an anode active material layer containing an anode active material; and an electrolyte layer formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer,

wherein at least one of the cathode active material layer, the anode active material layer and the electrolyte layer contains the sulfide solid electrolyte material according to claim 1 .

9. A method for producing the sulfide solid electrolyte material according to claim 1 ,

comprising steps of:

an ion conductive material synthesis step of synthesizing an amorphized ion conductive material by mechanical milling using a raw material composition containing a constituent component of the sulfide solid electrolyte material; and

a heating step of obtaining the sulfide solid electrolyte material by heating the amorphized ion conductive material.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 18, 2016
From: KATO, YUKI; OHTOMO, TAKAMASA
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 038023/0898 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-101314 · May 15, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150333367A1 · Nov 19, 2015
Cited By (1)
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