Cathode active material, cathode mixture, method for producing cathode active material, method for producing cathode, and method for producing oxide solid-state battery
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasatsugu KAWAKAMI, Shingo OHTA
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Abstract
Disclosed is a cathode active material that can lower sintering temperature, the cathode active mated al including a particle of a lithium containing composite oxide having a layered rock-salt crystalline phase, wherein the layered rock-salt crystalline phase is partially deficient in lithium, a percentage of deficient lithium in the layered rock-salt crystalline phase in a surface portion of the particle is higher than that in the layered rock-salt crystalline phase inside the particle, and the particle includes two phases that are different in lattice constant as the layered rock-salt crystalline phase.
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A cathode active material that comprises a particle of lithium containing composite oxide having a layered rock-salt crystalline phase, wherein
- the layered rock-salt crystalline phase is partially deficient in lithium,
- a percentage of deficient lithium in the layered rock-salt crystalline phase in a surface portion of the particle is higher than that in the layered rock-salt crystalline phase inside the particle, and
- the particle includes two phases that are different in lattice constant as the layered rock-salt crystalline phase.
A method for producing a cathode active material, the method comprising:
- contacting a particle of a lithium containing composite oxide having a layered rock-salt crystalline phase with an acid solution, and extracting lithium from a surface of the particle to the acid solution, to obtain a cathode active material that includes two phases different in lattice constant as the layered rock-salt crystalline phase.
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