A kind of lithium ion cell positive and preparation method thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to battery manufacture technical field, relate in particular to a kind of lithium ion cell positive and preparation method thereof.
Background technology
At the current most popular power supply of field of mobile equipment, surely belong to lithium ion battery, its major part comprises positive pole, negative pole, barrier film, electrolyte and shell body.Wherein, electrode fabrication is the core technology in lithium ion battery manufacture process, and positive pole comprises plus plate current-collecting body (containing lug) and is evenly formed on the positive electrode material layer of collection liquid surface.The Weak current that active particle in electrode material layer produces need be brought together with larger current forms and be exported to external circuit by collector, and lug can coordinate collector from battery core, both positive and negative polarity to be caused to external circuit better.At present, lithium ion battery generally adopts aluminium foil as plus plate current-collecting body, the good conductivity of aluminium, be easily processed into paper tinsel, mechanical strength feature good, relative low price is used it in a large number.Along with the extensive use of lithium ion battery, people have higher requirement for battery: quality is lighter, energy is higher, environmental protection more.Yet, aluminium foil as plus plate current-collecting body for the capacity of battery without any contribution, its quality but accounts for 15% left and right of whole positive pole, this will reduce the energy density of battery greatly.In addition, because adhesion between positive electrode material layer and aluminium foil is not strong, occur that the situation of dry linting happens occasionally, cause battery performance to worsen.
Carbon nano-tube is a kind of novel nano material, the geometry that it is unique and electronic band structure, make it have excellent electric property, add the low-density far below aluminium, macroscopical film that carbon nano-tube gathering forms is expected to substitute aluminium foil becomes lithium ion cell positive collector of new generation.
Through the literature search of prior art is found, to the research of carbon nano-tube collector at present also in the research and probe stage.
The Ke Wang of Tsing-Hua University, Shu Luo, at the < < Super-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films as Current Collectors for Lightweight and Flexible Lithium Ion Batteries > > of < < Advanced Functional Materials > > (advanced function material) the 23rd phase 846-853 page in 2013, (super even carbon nano-tube film is used as lightweight as collector to Yang Wu etc., pliable and tough lithium ion battery) in a literary composition, propose with carbon nano-tube film as lithium ion battery plus-negative plate collector.The people such as the Wang Jiaping of Tsing-Hua University, Wang Ke have set forth the manufacture craft of the electrode of carbon nano-tube film collector in the national inventing patent (CN 103187574 A) of its application.The work that they do has illustrated that it is possible that carbon nano-tube film alternative metals is served as collector well.This allows people from a new angle---the energy density of lithium ion battery is gone to improve in collector aspect, is no longer confined to electrode material.Yet due to the method problem of making at present, there is the deficiency of following several times in carbon nano-tube film collector: (1) masking efficiency is low, the size-constrained system of film, mechanical strength is not high; (2) although can connecting tab, yet with conducting resinl connecting tab and collector, the conducting resinl of introducing has not only increased the weight of pole piece, conducting resinl long period of soaking is easily aging in electrolyte simultaneously; (3) in electrode fabrication process, be first to form electrode material layer, then on electrode material layer, form carbon nano-tube rete, this make with traditional lithium ion battery on collector the technique of coating electrode pulp layer to compare variation too large, if be used in actual production, mean that manufacturer needs the extensive production line of adjusting, cost is too high.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides a kind of high efficiency, high-quality based on carbon nano-tube film, and lithium ion cell positive preparation method easy and that existing cell making process integrates with.
The present invention adopts following technical scheme:
It is collector that lithium ion cell positive of the present invention be take the carbon nano-tube film that carbon nano-tube macroscopic pipe forms, and positive electrode material layer is formed on carbon nano-tube film; Positive plate lug adopts the form of biplate aluminium foil folder carbon nano-tube film, and realizes electrical connection by spot welding.This carbon nano-tube film surface density is lower than 1.0 * 10
-3gcm
-2, mechanical strength is 100-150Mpa.
The manufacture method of the New Type of Carbon nanotube films collector the present invention relates to, the method is applicable to the positive pole of button cell, cylindrical battery, particularly laminated battery plate and makes, and comprises the steps:
Step 1, High Strength Carbon Nanotubes film preparation.The synthetic method of the reaction solution formula of Formed nanotube of the present invention and carbon nano-tube macroscopic tubulose non-individual body, with reference to patent ZL201010230938.4, is then prepared High Strength Carbon Nanotubes film by carbon nano-tube macroscopic tubulose non-individual body.First, in glass bar and rectangle glass, the m of substrate size (0.01-1.5) m * (0.01-2), surface sprinkling last layer volume fraction is 15%-50% alcohol water blend; Then, the macroscopic view pipe non-individual body generating from reactor mouth is drawn to square glass substrate with glass bar.Adopt the form of graticules in length and breadth, that is: first along mouth of pipe direction, on glass plate, cover carbon nano-tube macroscopic pipe, obtain the rete of approximately 0.1 μ m; Then, by glass plate half-twist, before continuing, cover in the direction carbon nano-tube macroscopic pipe, obtain after the rete of approximately 0.1 μ m, again by glass plate half-twist, so repeating until obtain the High Strength Carbon Nanotubes film (thickness 0.2-100 μ m) of desired thickness.
Step 2 generates positive electrode material layer on carbon nano-tube rete.By positive active material (cobalt acid lithium, lithium nickelate, LiMn2O4, LiFePO4, lithium nickel cobalt dioxide, nickel LiMn2O4, one or more in cobalt nickel LiMn2O4), conductive agent (Super-P, electrically conductive graphite, one or more in Ketjen black), binding agent (Kynoar, polyvinylidene fluoride, polytetrafluoroethylene, a kind of in butadiene-styrene rubber) mix in proportion, wherein: conductive agent quality accounts for 3%-15%, binding agent quality accounts for 5%-10%, all the other are positive active material, with nitrogen methyl-prop pyrrolidone (NMP), regulate slurry viscosity, solid content is controlled at 40%-50%.Ball milling 8-24h on planetary ball mill, rotating speed remains on 220-270rmin
-1above, obtain anode sizing agent.Adopt the mode of " the moving film of cutter is fixed ", the glass plate that is loaded with film is motionless, scraper is with certain edge of a knife (120-400 μ m) feed above film, by anode sizing agent " gap coating " to carbon nano-tube film, the coating of so-called gap, exactly the ink area that is coated with by certain white space (not coating), separated, have material region and white space alternative arrangement.Coating region lateral dimension accounts for the 0.85-0.95 of carbon nano-tube film lateral dimension, and occupy center; The required pole piece width of target battery or length that coating region longitudinal size equals 2.2 times.Coating is not reserved by lug is installed, and coating part longitudinal size is not the 1/8-3/8 of coating part longitudinal size.Concrete condition is shown in Fig. 1.After coating finishes, glass plate is placed in to 100-120 ℃ of baking oven and dries, drying time is 30-60min.
Step 3, coating carbon nano-tube rete is separated with glass substrate.The glass substrate that is loaded with coating carbon nano-tube rete is kept flat, with hairbrush, dip a kind of (to mention after hairbrush, dripless is standard while falling) of NMP, deionized water or alcohol.At the carbon nano-tube diaphragm area that is not coated with slurry, gently brush (NMP of take does not expand to coating position as standard).After coating does not partly soak, with blade of carving knife, gently scrape the edge of carbon nano-tube film, make the edge of film separated with glass substrate, after film and glass substrate separating part area can be by clamp clamps, use fixture clamping carbon nano-tube film separating part instead, with 0.5-1cms
-1speed to not separated side, lift, until the carbon nano-tube film that scribbles slurry is separated completely from glass plate.Top scribbles the carbon nano-tube membrane portions of anodal material and can from glass plate, take off easily without sticky glutinous ground, and coating part is not dry has taken off that a little is sticky glutinous, but also can glutinous from glass substrate, take off without sticky after wetted.After end to be separated, the carbon nano-tube film that is loaded with material is put into 100-120 ℃ of baking oven and place 20-30min.
Step 4, cut-parts are also installed lug.Along each not the transversal centerline in coating region film is cut into segment, use twin rollers by positive electrode material layer and carbon nano-tube film compacting.For button cell pole piece, only each section need be placed on mould and go out
5-15mm disk obtains positive plate, without lug is installed; For the battery pole piece that lug need to be installed, each section further need be cut into required pole piece size in battery making, the pole piece obtaining has material part to account for 7/10-9/10, and coating does not partly account for 1/10-3/10.The invention provides the installation method of lug under two kinds of situations: first, when lug is positioned at pole piece side (right side is obtained in left side), by pole piece not coating be partly placed in two aluminium foils (longitudinal size be pole piece longitudinal size 1.1-1.3 doubly, thickness≤20 μ m) in the middle of, with pneumatic spot welding machine, by upper and lower two aluminium foil seam, concrete condition is shown in Fig. 2; Second, when lug is positioned at pole piece top, with two aluminium foils (lateral dimension be not coating region lateral dimension 1/2, longitudinal size is 1.4-1.6 times of lateral dimension, thickness≤20 μ m) pole piece 1/2 being clipped in the middle of coating part (laterally) not, with pneumatic spot welding machine, by upper and lower two aluminium foil seam, concrete condition is shown in Fig. 4.Because carbon nano-tube film is positioned in the middle of two aluminium foils, in two aluminium foil welding processes, carbon nano-tube film is also just firmly fixed in the middle of two aluminium foils.After fixing, aluminium foil is trimmed to required form, as Fig. 3, Fig. 5, the aluminium foil of wherein clamping carbon nano-tube film is lug.For making laminated battery plate, also need on aluminium foil, weld again a bit of (width equals aluminium foil width, long 1-5cm) with the aluminium strip of tab.So far, positive plate just completes.
The prepared lithium ion cell positive of method of the present invention is lighter with the anodal phase specific mass of traditional aluminum foil current collector, and positive electrode material layer is combined more firm with collector.Under same size, carbon nano-tube film is far lighter than aluminium foil, and this part quality of saving is replaced to positive electrode, and battery capacity will exceed 15%-50% than take the battery that aluminium foil is plus plate current-collecting body.The present invention is with low cost, and formation efficiency is high, and equipment is simple, can realize semicontinuous operation, is suitable for a large amount of production.
Good effect of the present invention is as follows:
The first, directly the carbon nano-tube macroscopic pipe non-individual body generating from reactor mouth is made to film forming, masking efficiency is high, can prepare in theory the carbon nano-tube film of arbitrary dimension size, and in practical operation, prepared maximum carbon nano-tube film size reaches 1.5m * 2m.
The second, adopt the thin film-forming method of graticules in length and breadth, each carbon nanotube macroscopic view pipe in rete is interlaced, and each carbon nano-tube on microcosmic is interweaved, and the mechanical strength (100-150Mpa) that this film that makes to produce has had, is convenient to later use.
The 3rd, because carbon nano-tube film density is minimum, surface density (10 μ m) < 1.0 * 10
-3gcm
-2much smaller than aluminium foil (20 μ m) 5.44 * 10
-3gcm
-2, use this film collector can effectively reduce the quality of inert matter in whole electrode, thereby can improve simply and effectively the energy density of battery.
The 4th, due to the speciality of carbon nano-tube film rough surface porous and good wetability, its surface is more conducive to slurry to be adhered to, and has strengthened the cohesive force between slurry and collector, is not prone to dry linting phenomenon.
The 5th, the form that lug adopts aluminium foil folder carbon nano-tube film, realizes electrical connection by spot welding.This mode is without being used conducting resinl, and due to the battery failure defect of saving the quality of conducting resinl and having avoided causing because conducting resinl is aging, pole piece quality is lighter simultaneously; Monolithic aluminium foil THICKNESS CONTROL is below 20 μ m, and the thickness of lug part is suitable with positive electrode layer thickness, and guaranteeing can close contact between laminated battery plate positive/negative plate.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Fig. 1 is gap coating schematic diagram
Fig. 2 is the front schematic diagram of aluminium foil lug cutting when lug is positioned at side
Fig. 3 is schematic diagram after the cutting of aluminium foil lug when lug is positioned at side
Fig. 4 is the front schematic diagram of aluminium foil lug cutting when lug is positioned at top
Fig. 5 schematic diagram after the cutting of aluminium foil lug for above lug is positioned at time
1 carbon nano-tube rete, 2 positive electrode material layers, 3 aluminium foil lugs, 4 positive plates.
Embodiment
The following examples are to describe in further detail of the present invention.
Embodiment 1
The preparation of Snap-type cell positive: spraying upper volume mark on glass substrate (20cm * 20cm) and glass bar is 30% alcohol water blend, draws with glass bar the macroscopic view pipe non-individual body generating from reactor mouth to square glass substrate.Adopt the form of graticules in length and breadth, on glass substrate, will obtain the carbon nano-tube film of thickness approximately 10 μ m.By active material (LiCoO
2), conductive agent (Super-P), binding agent (Kynoar) mix (solid content remains on 45%) with NMP in the ratio of 90:4:6, put into ball mill ball milling 10h, rotating speed 232rmin
-1, obtain anode sizing agent.Keep scraper edge 180 μ m, on film, evenly smear last layer slurry, put into baking oven, 120 ℃, 40min.Subsequently, the glass substrate that is loaded with coating carbon nano-tube rete is kept flat, with hairbrush, dip NMP, at the carbon nano-tube diaphragm area that is not coated with slurry, gently brush.After coating does not partly soak, with blade of carving knife, gently scrape the edge of carbon nano-tube film, make the edge of film separated with glass substrate, after film and glass substrate separating part area can be by clamp clamps, use fixture clamping carbon nano-tube film separating part instead, with 0.5-1cms
-1speed to not separated side, lift, until the carbon nano-tube film that scribbles slurry is separated completely from glass plate.After end to be separated, the carbon nano-tube film that is loaded with material is put into 120 ℃ of baking oven 20min.Be loaded with the carbon nano-tube film of material after roll-in, on perforating press, go out
the disk of 12mm.So far, button cell positive pole just completes.
Embodiment 2
The preparation of individual layer laminated batteries positive pole: spraying upper volume mark on glass substrate (20cm * 36cm) and glass bar is 30% alcohol water blend, draws with glass bar the macroscopic view pipe non-individual body generating from reactor mouth to square glass substrate.Adopt the form of graticules in length and breadth, on glass substrate, will obtain the carbon nano-tube film of thickness approximately 13 μ m.By active material (LiCoO
2), conductive agent (Super-P), binding agent (Kynoar) mix (solid content 45%) in the ratio of 90:4:6 with NMP, put into ball mill ball milling 12h, rotating speed 232rmin
-1, obtain anode sizing agent.The mode that adopts " the moving film of cutter is fixed ", the glass plate that is loaded with film is motionless, and scraper is with 230 μ m edge of a knife feeds above film, anode sizing agent is coated with on carbon nano-tube film in " gap coating " mode, every coating is of a size of 8cm * 18cm, gap width 4cm, and concrete condition is shown in Fig. 1.After coating finishes, glass plate being placed in to 120 ℃ of baking ovens dries.Afterwards, by coating part not on the wetting carbon nanotube layer of the hairbrush that is moistened with NMP, with blade of carving knife, gently scrape afterwards the edge of carbon nano-tube film, make the edge of carbon nano-tube film separated with glass substrate, after film and glass substrate separating part area can be by clamp clamps, use fixture clamping carbon nano-tube film separating part instead, with 0.5-1cms
-1speed to not separated side, lift, until the carbon nano-tube film that scribbles slurry is separated completely from glass plate.After end to be separated, the carbon nano-tube film that is loaded with material is put into 120 ℃ of baking oven 30min.The film of taking off is cut into 12cm * 20cm(has material part 8cm * 18cm to be positioned at center, and all the other are coating part not), roll-in; After roll-in, pole piece is cut into 4.0cm * 3.0cm, wherein anode sizing agent is of a size of 3.0cm * 3.0cm(residual area and is stayed by making lug).Preprepared aluminium foil (thick 20 μ m) is cut into 0.8cm * 3.5cm, with two aluminium foils, pole piece, coating part is not whole is clipped in the middle, notice that aluminium foil has not covered anode sizing agent layer, on pneumatic spot welding machine, weld, the little aluminium flake and the aluminium foil that by the length with tab, are 1.5cm are again welded together, aluminium foil width is trimmed to the carbon nano-tube film that 0.5cm(aluminium foil includes and also prunes away in the lump).So far, individual layer laminated batteries positive pole just completes.
Embodiment 3
The preparation of multi-layer stacks anode: spraying upper volume mark on glass substrate (20cm * 36cm) and glass bar is 30% alcohol water blend, draws with glass bar the macroscopic view pipe non-individual body generating from reactor mouth to square glass substrate.Adopt the form of graticules in length and breadth, on glass substrate, will obtain the carbon nano-tube film of thickness approximately 13 μ m.By active material (LiCoO
2), conductive agent (Super-P), binding agent (Kynoar) mix (solid content 45%) in the ratio of 90:4:6 with NMP, put into ball mill ball milling ball milling 12h, rotating speed 248rmin
-1, obtain anode sizing agent.The mode that adopts " the moving film of cutter is fixed ", scraper, with 230 μ m edge of a knife feeds above film, is applied to anode sizing agent gap on carbon nano-tube film, and every coating is of a size of 8cm * 18cm, gap width 4cm, concrete condition is shown in Fig. 1.After coating finishes, glass plate being placed in to 120 ℃ of baking ovens dries.Afterwards, by coating part not on the wetting carbon nanotube layer of the hairbrush that is moistened with NMP, with blade of carving knife, gently scrape afterwards the edge of carbon nano-tube film, make the edge of carbon nano-tube film separated with glass substrate, after film and glass substrate separating part area can be by clamp clamps, use fixture clamping carbon nano-tube film separating part instead, with 0.5-1cms
-1speed to not separated side, lift, until the carbon nano-tube film that scribbles slurry is separated completely from glass plate.After end to be separated, the carbon nano-tube film that is loaded with material is put into 120 ℃ of baking oven 30min.The film of taking off is cut into 12cm * 20cm(has material part 8cm * 18cm to be positioned at center, and all the other are coating part not), roll-in; After roll-in, pole piece is cut into 4.0cm * 3.0cm, wherein anode sizing agent is of a size of 3.0cm * 3.0cm(residual area and is stayed by making lug).Preprepared aluminium foil (thick 20 μ m) is cut into 1.5cm * 2.3cm, with two aluminium foils pole piece 1/2 being clipped in the middle of coating part (laterally) not, see Fig. 4, notice that aluminium foil has not covered anode sizing agent layer, on pneumatic spot welding machine, weld, aluminium foil width is trimmed to " protruding " shape shown in Fig. 5, wherein " protruding " shape upper width 0.8cm.So far, multi-layer stacks anode just completes.
Embodiment 4
Table 1 is for being assembled into battery performance list after button cell battery by the prepared positive pole of embodiment mono-.As described above, the button cell of made be take lithium sheet as negative pole to the positive plate situation of example one, and barrier film is thick 12 μ m,
the disk of 12mm.After battery standing 24h, carry out electric performance test, through 0.1C(2.75-4.2V) after multiplying power changes into, in identical voltage range, the circulation of 1C multiplying power obtains table 1 data.
The table 1 example one button cell performance list of doing
Table 2 is for being assembled into battery performance list after individual layer laminated batteries by the prepared positive pole of embodiment bis-.As described above, the individual layer laminated batteries of made be take graphite as negative pole (negative pole material size 3.5cm * 3.5cm) to the positive plate situation of example two, and the thick 12 μ m of barrier film used, are of a size of 4.0cm * 4.0cm.After battery standing 24h, carry out electric performance test, through 0.1C(2.75-4.2V) after multiplying power changes into, in identical voltage range, the circulation of 1C multiplying power obtains table 2 data.
The table 2 example two individual layer laminated batteries performance list of doing
From above data, can find out, the present invention is prepared just has good performance, carbon nano-tube film for same size, it is qualitatively far below aluminium foil, if this part quality under carbon nano-tube film is saved replaces to positive electrode, the capacity of battery will exceed 20%-50% than take the battery that aluminium foil is plus plate current-collecting body.
The present invention is simple for process, and product not only can apply in the middle of the making of conventional batteries, more obvious in the effect of flexible foldable field of batteries.Raw material of the present invention is simple and easy to get, with low cost, environmentally safe; Efficiency is high, and equipment is simple, can realize semicontinuous operation, is suitable for a large amount of production.
Although illustrated and described embodiments of the invention, for the ordinary skill in the art, be appreciated that without departing from the principles and spirit of the present invention and can carry out multiple variation, modification, replacement and modification to these embodiment, scope of the present invention is limited by claims and equivalent thereof.