Negative electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, producing method therefor, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

• US 20070048609A1
• Filed: 08/28/2006
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ueda, Tomohiro, Nanno, Tetsuo, Bito, Yasuhiko
• Application Number:
  US11/510,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20070048609A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/218.100
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0525 Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/134 Electrodes based on metals, Si or alloys
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/1395 of electrodes based on metals, Si or alloys
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/364 as mixtures
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/621 Binders
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/622 being polymers
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/625 Carbon or graphite
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in the present invention includes an active material including Si, a conductive material, and a binder. The binder is polyimide and polyacrylic acid, and the conductive material is a carbon material.

Claims

1. A negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising an active material including Si, a binder, and a conductive material,

wherein said binder comprises polyimide and polyacrylic acid, and

said conductive material comprises a carbon material.

2. The negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 1, wherein said polyimide is imidized polyamic acid.

3. The negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 2, wherein an imidization rate of said polyamic acid is 80% or more.

4. The negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 1,

wherein said negative electrode active material comprises a first phase including Si, and a second phase including a silicide of a transition metal;

and

at least one of said first phase and said second phase is in at least one state of amorphous state and low-crystalline state.

5. The negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 4, wherein said transition metal is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Ni, Cu, Fe, and Mo.

6. The negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 4, wherein said silicide of a transition metal is TiSi₂.

7. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising the negative electrode in accordance with claim 1, a positive electrode, a separator interposed between said positive electrode and said negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte.

8. A method for producing a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the method comprising the steps of:

(1) mixing an active material including Si, a binder material solution including polyamic acid and polyacrylic acid, and a carbon material as a conductive material, and

heating and drying the mixture to obtain a negative electrode mixture; and

(2) pressure-molding said negative electrode mixture to obtain a pellet, and

heating said pellet to imidize said polyamic acid to obtain polyimide, thereby obtaining a negative electrode including polyimide and polyacrylic acid as a binder.

9. The method for producing a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 8, wherein a heating temperature of said pellets in said step (2) is 200 to 300°

C.

10. The method for producing a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 8, wherein an imidization rate of said polyamic acid in said step (2) is 80% or more.

11. The method for producing a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 8, wherein a total content of said polyamic acid and said polyacrylic acid in said negative electrode mixture is 0.5 to 30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said active material.

12. The method for producing a negative electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery in accordance with claim 8, wherein said polyamic acid content in said negative electrode mixture is 10 to 95 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the total of said polyamic acid and said polyacrylic acid.