Anode active material-containing slurry, anode using the slurry and electrochemical device comprising the anode

• US 9,577,263 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2014
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Energy Solution Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Chem Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yang, Ji-Hye, Kim, Jang-Bae, Lee, Byoung-Bae
• Primary Examiner(s): Eggerding, Alix
• Application Number:
  US14/518,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20150037672A1
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/052 Li-accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2004/027 Negative electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/0404 by coating on electrode collectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/0471 involving thermal treatment, e.g. firing, sintering, backing particulate active material, thermal decomposition, pyrolysis
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/131 Electrodes based on mixed oxides or hydroxides, or on mixtures of oxides or hydroxides, e.g. LiCoOx
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/134 Electrodes based on metals, Si or alloys
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/1391 of electrodes based on mixed oxides or hydroxides, or on mixtures of oxides or hydroxides, e.g. LiCoOx
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/1395 of electrodes based on metals, Si or alloys
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/622 being polymers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an anode active material-containing slurry, an anode using the slurry, and an electrochemical device comprising the anode. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a slurry comprising an anode active material; a polymer binder comprising styrene butadiene rubber and potassium polyacrylate; a conductive material; and a dispersing medium, an anode using the slurry, and an electrochemical device comprising the anode. The anode active material-containing slurry according to one aspect of the present disclosure can relieve the volume expansion of an anode active material by the intercalation and disintercalation of lithium during cycles of electrochemical devices to improve the durability of an anode active material layer, thereby enhancing the life characteristics of the electrochemical devices, and can form an anode active material layer having a high peeling force even though potassium polyacrylate with a relatively lower weight-average molecular weight is used.

Claims

1. An anode active material-containing slurry for a lithium secondary battery, comprising:

an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery, wherein the anode active material intercalates and deintercalates lithium;

a polymer binder consisting of styrene butadiene rubber and potassium polyacrylate;

a conductive material; and

a dispersing medium,

wherein the potassium polyacrylate is produced by a neutralization reaction of polyacrylic acid and potassium hydroxide (KOH), the polyacrylic acid has a weight-average molecular weight of 400,000 to 800,000, and the slurry has a viscosity of 7 to 56 Pa·

s at 23°

C. and a shear rate of 0.1 to 1 s<sup>−

1</sup>.

2. The slurry of claim 1, wherein based on 100 parts by weight of the dispersing medium,

the anode active material is present in an amount of 80 to 100 parts by weight,

the polymer binder is present in an amount of 5 to 10 parts by weight, and

the conductive material is present in an amount of 1 to 5 parts by weight.

3. The slurry of claim 1, wherein the potassium polyacrylate produced by the neutralization reaction is in an aqueous solution which exhibits a concentration of hydrogen ions corresponding to pH 7 to pH 9.

4. The slurry of claim 1, further comprising a water-based binder.

5. The slurry of claim 4, wherein the water-based binder is any one selected from the group consisting of carboxymethyl cellulose, polytetrafluoroethylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene/propylene copolymers, polybutadiene, butyl rubbers, fluorine rubbers, polyethylene oxide, polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyepichlorohydrin, polyphosphazene, polyacrylonitrile, polystyrene, ethylene/propylene/diene copolymers, polyvinylpyridine, chlorosulfonated polyethylene, latex, polyester resins, acrylic resins, phenolic resins, epoxy resins, polyvinyl alcohol, hydroxypropyl cellulose, and a mixture thereof.

6. The slurry of claim 1, wherein the anode active material has an average diameter of 1 to 30 μ

m.

7. The slurry of claim 1, wherein the anode active material comprises metallic lithium, a carbon material, a metal compound, a metal oxide, or a mixture thereof.

8. The slurry of claim 7, wherein the metal compound is any one selected from the group consisting of Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, P, Sb, Bi, Al, Ga, In, Ti, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ag, Mg, Sr, Ba, and a mixture thereof.

9. The slurry of claim 7, wherein the metal oxide is any one selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, tin oxide, titanium oxide, lithium/vanadium-based oxide, and a mixture thereof.

10. The slurry of claim 1, wherein the dispersing medium is any one selected from the group consisting of acetone, tetrahydrofuran, methylene chloride, chloroform, dimethylform amide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), cyclohexane, water and a mixture thereof.

11. An anode for a lithium secondary battery, comprising:

a current collector; and

an anode active material layer formed by coating the anode active material-containing slurry of claim 1 on one or both surface(s) of the current collector, followed by drying.

12. The anode of claim 11, wherein the drying comprises a first drying step conducted at a temperature of 120 to 140°

C., and a second drying step conducted at a temperature of 80 to 100°

C. under vacuum.

13. A lithium secondary battery, comprising a cathode, an anode, a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the anode is defined in claim 11.

14. The slurry of claim 7, wherein the metal oxide is silicon oxide.