Electrode material, electrode, and lithium ion battery
AssigneeSumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroyuki Mine, Takao Kitagawa
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Abstract
An electrode material, an electrode, and a lithium ion battery in which it is possible to improve not only the amount of gas generated in the battery during charge and discharge but also the deterioration of battery components without reducing the charge and discharge capacity are provided. The electrode material is an electrode material including carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles which include a carbonaceous material on surfaces of electrode active material particles, in which an oxygen content rate in the carbonaceous material is 5.0% by mass or less, and a coating ratio of the carbonaceous material on the surfaces of the carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles is 60% or more.
Claims14
An electrode material comprising carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles including a carbonaceous material film on surfaces of electrode active material particles, wherein
- the water content of the carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles is 5% by mass or less,
- the oxygen content of the carbonaceous material film is 4.2% by mass or less,
- a coating ratio of the carbonaceous material film on the surfaces of the carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles is 60% or more,
- the content of carbon in the carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles is in a range of 0.3% by mass to 8.0% by mass,
- the electrode active material particles include one or more selected from the group consisting of lithium cobaltate, lithium nickelate, lithium manganate, lithium titanate, and LixAyDzPO4 as a main component, wherein A represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Ni, Fe, Cu, and Cr;
- D represents one or more selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, S, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sc, Y, and rare earth elements;
- 0<x<2;
- 0<y<1.5;
- and 0≦z<1.5, and
- the amount of oxygen in the carbonaceous material film is determined such that the electrode active material in the carbonaceous electrode active material complex particles is dissolved using a hydrochloric solution to obtain a carbonaceous substance, and the carbonaceous substance is washed using pure water and is vacuum-dried, and the amount of oxygen of the obtained dried substance is measured using an oxygen and nitrogen analyzer.
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