Disclosure of Invention
The application provides a composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure, a preparation method, a battery and a preparation method, which can effectively solve the problem of expansion of a silicon-oxygen negative electrode material in a circulating process while ensuring the coating amount requirement of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material.
According to a first aspect of the present application, there is provided a composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure comprising:
a silicon oxygen negative electrode material;
mesophase carbon microbeads; the mesophase carbon microsphere comprises a plurality of basal planes and a plurality of end faces; wherein the end surfaces are distributed on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere; the plurality of base surfaces are distributed in the mesophase carbon microsphere;
wherein the silicon-oxygen anode material is combined to the plurality of end faces of the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere, so that the silicon-oxygen anode material wraps the mesophase carbon microsphere to form a core-shell structure.
Optionally, the diameter of the mesophase carbon microsphere is 3-10um.
Optionally, the thickness of the silicon-oxygen anode material coated on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is as follows: 100nm-1000nm.
Optionally, the volume ratio of the silicon oxygen anode material to the mesophase carbon microsphere is 0.02-0.67.
Optionally, the weight ratio of the silicon oxygen anode material to the mesophase carbon microsphere is: 0.02-0.65.
Optionally, the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere further comprises a plurality of first surface holes, and the silica anode material is further filled in the plurality of first surface holes; the plurality of first surface pores characterize surface pores added to the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere after the first treatment of the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere.
Optionally, after the surfaces of the mesophase carbon microspheres form the plurality of first surface pores, the porosity of the mesophase carbon microspheres is: 20-30%.
Optionally, the volume of the silicon-oxygen anode material filled in the plurality of first surface holes is greater than or equal to 0.03um 3 。
Optionally, the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon anode structure further includes:
a conductive carbon layer; and the conductive carbon layer is coated on the surface of the silicon-oxygen anode material.
Optionally, the thickness of the conductive carbon layer is: 5-50nm.
According to a second aspect of the present application, there is provided a method for preparing a composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure for use in preparing any one of the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structures of the first aspect of the present application, comprising:
providing the silicon oxygen anode material and the mesophase carbon microbeads; the mesophase carbon microsphere comprises a plurality of basal planes and a plurality of end faces; wherein the end surfaces are distributed on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere; the plurality of base surfaces are distributed in the mesophase carbon microsphere;
wrapping the silicon-oxygen anode material on the mesophase carbon microsphere to form the core-shell structure; wherein the silicon-oxygen anode material is bonded to the plurality of end faces of the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere, so that the silicon-oxygen anode material wraps the mesophase carbon microsphere to form the core-shell structure.
Optionally, before wrapping the silicon oxygen anode material on the mesophase carbon microsphere, the method further comprises:
screening the mesophase carbon microspheres, wherein the particle size of the mesophase carbon microspheres obtained after screening is as follows: 3-7um.
Optionally, before wrapping the silica anode material on the mesophase carbon microsphere, the method further comprises:
and (3) pore forming is carried out on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere so as to form a plurality of first surface pores on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere.
Optionally, when pore-forming is performed on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere, an acidification treatment mode is adopted for the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere.
According to a third aspect of the present application, there is provided a battery comprising: the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure of any one of the first aspect of the application.
According to a fourth aspect of the present application, there is provided a method of manufacturing a battery, comprising: the method for producing a composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure according to any one of the second aspects of the present application.
According to the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure, the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is combined to the plurality of end faces of the surface of the intermediate-phase carbon microsphere, so that the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material wraps the intermediate-phase carbon microsphere to form a core-shell structure. In addition, the technical scheme provided by the application also has a good internal carbon conductive network. Meanwhile, as a plurality of exposed end surfaces exist on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere, the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is active, and can be combined with a sufficient amount of silicon-oxygen cathode material. Therefore, the technical scheme provided by the application effectively solves the problem of expansion in the circulation process while ensuring the coating amount requirement of the silicon-oxygen anode material.
Further, the conductive carbon layer is formed on the surface of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material, so that the conductivity of the composite silicon-oxygen negative electrode structure can be further improved and ensured, and the formed structure has a good internal carbon conductive network.
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The following description of the embodiments of the present application will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the application without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the application.
The terms "first," "second," "third," "fourth" and the like in the description and in the claims and in the above drawings, if any, are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate such that the embodiments of the application described herein may be implemented in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
In the prior art, a silicon anode material is generally prepared in a carbon-coated silicon form, and the anode material with the structure has the following problems: in the carbon-coated silicon negative electrode material, because silicon is coated in carbon, when lithium ions are inserted and extracted, the silicon negative electrode material expands and contracts in volume, so that silicon particles are broken, an SEI film is unstable due to electric contact deterioration, and finally the problems of low efficiency and quick attenuation of circulating capacity of the silicon negative electrode material are caused. The silicon negative electrode material has huge volume change in the lithium intercalation and lithium deintercalation processes, the expansion can reach 300 percent, and huge internal tension is generated, so that the electrochemical performance is seriously affected, the cycle reversibility is poor, and the coulomb efficiency is low; moreover, the great stress caused by the volume change of the silicon material also easily causes the separation of the active material and the conductive agent, greatly damages the electron transmission path inside the electrode, and even causes the stripping of the electrode coating from the current collector, resulting in continuous decrease of the battery capacity until the battery is completely damaged.
Therefore, the traditional carbon-coated silicon structure can inhibit the volume expansion of silicon, which is unfavorable for the release of capacity, and reduce the energy density of the battery; and the innermost layer of the normal silicon oxygen negative electrode is a silicon oxygen negative electrode, so that the stress distribution is very large, the silicon oxygen negative electrode is easy to break, and the reversible circulation of the silicon carbon material cannot be realized. In order to solve the above problems, the prior art has carried out the following studies:
the patent application publication number is: CN 113241426A discloses a carbon composite coated silicon oxide negative electrode material, a preparation method thereof and a lithium ion battery; the preparation method of the anode material comprises the following steps: coating a carbon layer on the surface of the silicon oxide by CVD gas phase coating to obtain gas phase coated silicon oxide; mixing the gas-phase coated silica with asphalt and boric acid, and then carbonizing and sintering to carbonize the asphalt and wrap the asphalt on the surface of the gas-phase coated silica to form a solid-phase coated carbon layer, and volatilizing the boric acid on the surface of the material to form fine holes to obtain a solid-phase coated silica precursor; and preparing the solid phase coated silica precursor into the anode material. Compared with the single CVD coating of the silicon oxide, the technical scheme provided by the application can effectively reduce the CVD coating time, reduce the energy consumption and is more suitable for batch production. Meanwhile, boric acid is added in the solid-phase coating stage, fine holes are formed by volatilization of the boric acid during high-temperature sintering, holes are formed in the surface of the material, the wettability of the surface electrolyte of the material in the battery manufacturing process is improved, the electrolyte holding capacity of the material is improved, and a lithium ion transmission channel of the material in the battery charging and discharging process is increased, so that the purposes of improving the material circulation performance, enhancing the stability of the cathode material and exerting the electrochemical comprehensive performance are achieved, and the performance of the material after twice coating is basically consistent with the performance of the material coated by CVD gas phase alone.
The patent application publication number is: CN 112750993A discloses a silicon carbon composite material comprising: silicon nanoparticles; the metal layer is coated on the surface of the silicon nano-particles; and the carbon material layer is coated on the surface of the metal layer. In the silicon-carbon composite material provided by the application, more metal/silicon contact interfaces are created by the metal layer on the surface of the silicon nano particles, so that a large number of electron conduction paths are added for the silicon nano particles, the effect of a mini current collector is achieved, strong stress support is provided for the volume expansion of the silicon nano particles, the cracking resistance of the silicon nano particles is increased, the silicon nano particles are prevented from being pulverized, the possibility of direct contact between the silicon nano particles and electrolyte is reduced, and the cycle performance of the silicon-carbon composite material is greatly improved. In addition, the carbon material layer on the surface of the metal layer enhances the conductivity of the silicon-carbon composite material, can play a role in buffering volume expansion, reduces side reactions of silicon nano particles and electrolyte, and is beneficial to forming stable SEI. The silicon-carbon composite material has the characteristics of high capacity (for example, the capacity of the silicon-carbon composite material can reach 4.78mAh cm < -2 >), good cycle stability (for example, the average capacity fading rate of each cycle of 1000 cycles of charge and discharge is only 0.068%), and high conductivity.
The patent application publication number is: the application document of CN 115832254A discloses a silicon-carbon composite anode material and a preparation method thereof, and the preparation method provided by the application comprises the following steps: mixing and grinding silicon and silicon dioxide, and then heating to react to generate silicon oxygen steam; synchronously condensing silica vapor and nano carbon material slurry, and simultaneously introducing graphite to obtain a SiO@C@graphite composite material; and (3) introducing a gas carbon source, and forming a carbon coating layer on the surface of the SiO@C@graphite composite material to obtain the silicon-carbon composite anode material. The application realizes that nano-scale silicon oxide is directly and uniformly coated on the surface of graphite, the volume expansion of the silicon oxide is relieved in a nanocrystallization way, meanwhile, the surface of the silicon oxide is provided with a nano carbon material with high conductivity as an inner layer, and an amorphous double coating layer as an outer layer, thereby providing a buffer layer for the expansion of the silicon oxide and improving the conductivity of the silicon oxide. The cycle performance of the silicon oxide can be obviously improved, and the cycle life of the whole silicon-carbon composite anode material is further prolonged. The graphite is added in the preparation process of the silicon oxide, so that the silicon oxide can be directly deposited on the surface of the graphite, the processes of independently preparing massive or granular silicon oxide in the conventional technology, then carrying out multistage crushing, grading and the like are avoided, the industrial process is simplified, the utilization rate of the silicon oxide is improved, and the production cost is reduced.
The patent application publication number is: CN 115911341A discloses a porous silicon-carbon anode material, a preparation method and application, and the anode material provided in the application comprises: the negative electrode material has a core-shell structure, and comprises the following components from inside to outside: porous silica carbon core, transition layer close silicon carbon layer and carbon coating. According to the technical scheme provided by the application, the porous carbon with the silicon particles distributed in the gaps of the carbon skeleton structure of the porous silicon-carbon anode material has a porous gap structure, can provide excellent flexibility nuclear mechanical strength, and can buffer expansion and contraction stress generated by lithium ion deintercalation. The porous carbon with silicon particles distributed in gaps of the carbon skeleton structure, the carbon coating layer and the metal element doped with the compact layer have good conductivity, and the conductivity of the material can be improved. The silicon particles in the porous silicon-carbon anode material are reasonably distributed in the gaps among the porous carbon core-carbon particles, so that the porous silicon-carbon anode material has excellent comprehensive performance, effectively slows down the expansion of the silicon anode material in the circulation process, controls the capacity attenuation and improves the circulation stability.
In summary, various technical schemes provided in the field of negative electrode materials can solve the problem of expansion of the silicon negative electrode material in the circulation process, but the general schemes are different in size, and the method of wrapping the silicon oxygen material layer by the carbon material layer is adopted. Even if the structure of silicon-coated carbon and carbon material re-coated silicon is disclosed, part of carbon coated inside the silicon is activated carbon, and plays a role in buffering during expansion, and the problem of expansion is only partially alleviated although the conductivity is improved at the same time.
In order to further effectively solve the problem of expansion during cycling, the inventors of the present application have undergone a series of repeated designs and experiments:
the inventors found after the study of a large amount of experimental data in the initial study: when the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is coated on the common carbon material, although the expansion effect is greatly improved, as the common carbon material is formed by stacking hexagonal graphite sheet layer net surfaces, special end surface and basal plane (basalplane) characteristics are formed, and the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material has anisotropic reaction property, wherein the exposed end surface and the limited end surface are adopted, and in the structure of coating the common carbon material by adopting the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material, the coating sites of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material are extremely limited, so that the actual performance requirement of the negative electrode material can not be met far.
Further, the inventors found that: the intermediate phase carbon microsphere is a spherical particle, and the internal crystal structure of the intermediate phase carbon microsphere is radially arranged to form end face (edge surface) and basal plane (basalplane) characteristics; meaning that there are a number of exposed large number of end faces on its surface. Therefore, the inventor adopts the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material to coat the mesophase carbon microsphere, and finds out through a great number of repeated experiments and tests: on the one hand, compared with the common carbon material, a large number of exposed end surfaces of the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere can be combined with a sufficient amount of silicon oxygen anode material; on the other hand, compared with the technical scheme that the silicon-oxygen anode material is coated with the common carbon material, the silicon-oxygen anode material is plated on the mesophase carbon microsphere, has more uniform stress distribution and is not easy to break, and the volume expansion rate of the whole silicon-oxygen anode material is only 33-50%, so that the silicon-oxygen anode material has better cycle performance; in addition, the negative electrode material of the internal MCMB (mesophase carbon microsphere) structure also has a good internal carbon conductive network.
The inventor of the present application finally proposes after repeated demonstration of the experimental results and data: coating the silica anode material on the mesophase carbon microsphere to form the silica anode material. According to the technical scheme provided by the application, the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is skillfully coated on the intermediate phase carbon microsphere, so that the problem of expansion of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is solved greatly, and meanwhile, compared with a common carbon material, the intermediate phase carbon microsphere with active surface can be coated with more silicon-oxygen negative electrode materials, so that the technical scheme provided by the application can meet the actual application requirements.
In addition, in the technical scheme provided by the application, the intermediate phase carbon microsphere coated by the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is almost occupied by the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material at active sites, so that a stable negative electrode material structure is formed, and the problem that the performance of the negative electrode material is affected due to other side reactions generated in the charging and discharging processes of the intermediate phase carbon microsphere with active surface is avoided.
The technical scheme of the application is described in detail below by specific examples. The following embodiments may be combined with each other, and some embodiments may not be repeated for the same or similar concepts or processes.
Referring to fig. 1-4, according to an embodiment of the present application, there is provided a composite silicon-oxygen-carbon anode structure, including:
a silicon oxygen negative electrode material;
mesophase carbon microbeads; the mesophase carbon microsphere comprises a plurality of basal planes and a plurality of end faces; wherein the end surfaces are distributed on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere; the plurality of base surfaces are distributed in the mesophase carbon microsphere;
wherein the silicon-oxygen anode material is bonded to the plurality of end surfaces of the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere, so that the silicon-oxygen anode material wraps the mesophase carbon microsphere to form a core-shell structure;
as shown in fig. 1.
In the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure, the mode of coating the intermediate phase carbon microspheres by the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is adopted, so that the volume expansion rate of the whole silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is only 33% -50%, and the cycle performance of the negative electrode material is greatly improved.
The composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure provided by the application has the advantages that firstly, the interior of particles is provided with the mesophase carbon microsphere, which means that the bottommost layer of a conductive network is carbon, different from carbon-coated silicon-oxygen, the bottommost layer is contacted with silicon-oxygen, and secondly, the surface of the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure is coated with a conductive layer, so that the technical scheme provided by the application integrally forms a good internal conductive network.
According to the technical scheme provided by the application, the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is combined to a plurality of end faces of the surface of the intermediate phase carbon microsphere, so that the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material wraps the intermediate phase carbon microsphere to form a core-shell structure, compared with the technical scheme that the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is wrapped by a common carbon material in the prior art, the stress distribution is more uniform, the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is not easy to break, the volume expansion rate of the whole silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is only 33% -50%, and the cycle performance of the negative electrode material is greatly improved. In addition, the technical scheme provided by the application also has a good internal carbon conductive network. Meanwhile, as a plurality of exposed end surfaces exist on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere, the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is active, and can be combined with a sufficient amount of silicon-oxygen cathode material.
In addition, in the technical scheme provided by the application, the intermediate phase carbon microsphere coated by the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is almost occupied by the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material at active sites, so that a stable negative electrode material structure is formed, and the problem that the performance of the negative electrode material is affected due to other side reactions generated in the charging and discharging processes of the intermediate phase carbon microsphere with active surface is avoided.
Therefore, the technical scheme provided by the application ensures the coating amount of the silicon-oxygen anode material and simultaneously effectively solves the problem of expansion in the circulating process of the silicon-oxygen anode material. Meanwhile, other side reactions generated in the charge and discharge process of the mesocarbon microbeads with active surfaces are avoided, and higher material performance is realized.
In the prior art, a carbon-coated silicon structure is adopted, mainly in consideration of the capacity problem of the anode material, and the capacity requirement of the anode material cannot be met due to the limited ratio of the silicon-oxygen material in the silicon-coated carbon structure, so that the person skilled in the art cannot think of manufacturing a battery by using the anode material of the silicon-coated carbon structure. In order to overcome the technical prejudice that the prior art adopts a carbon-coated silicon structure consistently, but does not adopt the silicon-coated carbon structure of course; therefore, the technical scheme provided by the application solves the problem of expansion, simultaneously overcomes the problems that the structure of the silicon-coated common carbon material is low and the actual capacity requirement cannot be met, and simultaneously overcomes the technical prejudice of the technical personnel in the art on the capacity defect of the silicon-coated carbon structure.
In one embodiment, the mesophase carbon microbeads have a diameter of 3-10um; the specific examples may be 3um, 4um, 5um, 6um, 7um, 8um, 9um, 10um, etc., and of course, the application is not limited thereto, and the diameters of the mesophase carbon microspheres are all within the scope of the application as long as they are 3-10um.
In one embodiment, the thickness of the silicon-oxygen anode material coated on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is as follows: 100nm-1000nm; specific examples thereof include 100nm, 200nm, 300nm, 400nm, 500nm, 600nm, 700nm, 800nm, 900nm, 1000nm, and the like, and of course, the application is not limited thereto, and the thickness of the silicon-oxygen anode material coated on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is 100nm to 1000nm, which falls within the protection scope of the application.
However, the larger the thickness of the mesophase carbon microsphere, the higher the specific capacity of the composite type silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure. Thus, the inventors of the present application found through repeated experiments that: when the thickness of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material coated on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is 100nm-1000nm, the cyclicity and specific capacity of the composite silicon-oxygen carbon negative electrode structure can be considered, so that the performance of the composite silicon-oxygen carbon negative electrode structure can meet the actual performance requirement of a lithium battery.
Therefore, the technical scheme provided by the embodiment adopts a mode of increasing the wrapping thickness of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material, and regulates and controls the ratio of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material to the internal carbon material (the mesophase carbon microsphere), so that the cycle performance and the specific capacity of the composite silicon-oxygen carbon negative electrode structure are regulated, and the cycle performance and the specific capacity are balanced.
In one embodiment, the volume ratio of the silicon oxygen anode material to the mesophase carbon microbeads is 0.02-0.67. Specific examples thereof may be 0.02, 00.5, 0.5, 0.6, 0.67, etc., and of course, the application is not limited thereto, and the volume ratio of the mesophase carbon microsphere is 0.02-0.67, which is within the scope of the application.
In one embodiment, the weight ratio of the silicon oxygen anode material to the mesophase carbon microsphere is: 0.02-0.65. Specific examples thereof include 0.02, 0.06, 0.6, 0.65, etc., and of course, the application is not limited thereto, and the application is within the scope of protection provided that the weight ratio of the mesophase carbon microbeads is 0.02-0.65.
In an alternative embodiment, the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere further comprises a plurality of first surface holes, and the silica negative electrode material is further filled in the plurality of first surface holes; the first surface pores characterize surface pores (not shown in the surface pore diagram) added to the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere after the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is acidified;
according to the technical scheme provided by the application, the proportion of the silica anode material to the internal carbon material (the mesophase carbon microsphere) is regulated and controlled by arranging the first surface holes on the mesophase carbon microsphere, and the cycle performance and the specific capacity of the composite silica carbon anode structure are regulated, so that the cycle performance and the specific capacity are balanced.
In one embodiment, after the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere forms the plurality of first surface pores, the mesophase carbon microsphere has a porosity of: 20-30%. Specific examples thereof include 20%, 22%, 24%, 26%, 28%, 30%, etc., and of course, the present application is not limited thereto, as long as the porosity of the mesophase carbon microsphere is: 20-30% of the total weight of the composite material is within the protection scope of the application.
The porosity of the mesophase carbon microsphere is set to be 20-30%, because if the porosity is too large, the structure of the mesophase carbon microsphere is easy to collapse; if the porosity is too small, the number of the silicon-oxygen cathodes is insufficient, so that the capacity of the cathode material is insufficient; the embodiment of the application is obtained through continuous geographic theory verification and actual structure verification, the porosity in the range of 20-30% is ensured not to collapse in the structure of the mesophase carbon microsphere, and the effect of increasing the duty ratio of the silicon-oxygen cathode material in the structure is just realized, so that the balance of the two is realized.
In one embodiment, the volume of the silicon oxide anode material filled in the first surface holes is greater than or equal to 0.03um 3 。
In one embodiment, the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure further comprises:
a conductive carbon layer; and the conductive carbon layer is coated on the surface of the silicon-oxygen anode material.
The surface of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is coated with the conductive carbon layer again, so that the conductive performance of the composite silicon-oxygen carbon negative electrode structure is further improved.
In one embodiment, the conductive carbon layer has a thickness of: 5-50nm; specific examples thereof include 5nm, 6nm, 7nm, 8nm, 20nm, 30nm, 50nm, etc., and of course, the application is not limited thereto, as long as the thickness of the conductive carbon layer is: and 5-50nm, all of which are within the protection scope of the application.
According to an embodiment of the present application, there is further provided a method for preparing a composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure, for preparing the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure according to any one of the preceding embodiments of the present application, including:
providing the silicon oxygen anode material and the mesophase carbon microbeads; the mesophase carbon microsphere comprises a plurality of basal planes and a plurality of end faces; wherein the end surfaces are distributed on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere; the plurality of base surfaces are distributed in the mesophase carbon microsphere;
wrapping the silicon-oxygen anode material on the mesophase carbon microsphere to form the core-shell structure; wherein the silicon-oxygen anode material is bonded to the plurality of end faces of the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere, so that the silicon-oxygen anode material wraps the mesophase carbon microsphere to form the core-shell structure.
According to the technical scheme provided by the application, the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is combined to the plurality of end faces of the surface of the intermediate phase carbon microsphere, so that the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material wraps the intermediate phase carbon microsphere to form a core-shell structure, the requirement of the coating amount of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is ensured, and meanwhile, the problem of expansion in the circulation process of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material is effectively solved. Meanwhile, other side reactions generated in the charge and discharge process of the mesocarbon microbeads with active surfaces are avoided, and higher material performance is realized.
According to the technical scheme provided by the application, the cycle performance and the specific capacity of the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure can be regulated by regulating the ratio of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material to the internal carbon material (mesophase carbon microsphere), so that the cycle performance and the specific capacity are balanced.
In one embodiment, the method further comprises, prior to wrapping the silicon oxygen anode material on the mesophase carbon microbeads:
screening the mesophase carbon microspheres, wherein the particle size of the mesophase carbon microspheres obtained after screening is as follows: 3-7um; specific examples thereof include 3um, 4um, 5um, 6um, 7um, etc., and of course, the present application is not limited thereto, as long as the particle size of the mesophase carbon microsphere is: 3-7um, all are within the scope of the application.
In one embodiment, before wrapping the silica anode material on the mesophase carbon microbeads, the method further comprises:
and (3) pore forming is carried out on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere so as to form a plurality of first surface pores on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere.
In one embodiment, when the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is subjected to pore formation, the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is subjected to acidification treatment.
In a specific example, the acidifying treatment of the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere comprises:
dispersing mesophase carbon microsphere particles in a concentrated acid solution (the volume ratio of concentrated sulfuric acid to concentrated nitric acid is 3:1 at the temperature of 75 ℃), transferring to deionized water after cooling, stirring, centrifuging, continuously cleaning with deionized water until the pH is neutral, and finally filtering.
The performance of the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure provided by the application is specifically analyzed by the following specific examples:
example 1:
mixing silicon powder and silicon dioxide powder (0.6:1), heating (1200-1400 ℃) until sublimating silicon dioxide negative electrode material gas, wherein the silicon dioxide negative electrode material gas is far away from the silicon powder and silicon dioxide which are mixed and heated in the horizontal direction, and the sublimated gas flows to a chamber where the MCMB is positioned and is separated out on the chamber under the driving of inert gas (nitrogen, argon and helium) so as to realize cladding. The average grain diameter of the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon anode structure is 5um-7um (as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the actual sizes of 3um and 2 um in the figures are 7um and 5um respectively), and the thickness of the silicon-oxygen anode material coated on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is 300nm.
Example 2:
and mixing silicon powder and silicon dioxide powder in a ratio of 0.7:1, heating (1200-1400 ℃) until sublimating silicon dioxide negative electrode material gas, wherein the silicon dioxide negative electrode material gas is far away from the mixed and heated silicon powder and silicon dioxide in the horizontal direction, and the sublimated gas flows to a chamber where the MCMB is positioned and is separated out on the chamber under the driving of inert gas (nitrogen, argon and helium) so as to realize cladding. The average grain diameter of the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure is 5um-7um (shown in fig. 2 and 3), and the thickness of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material coated on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is 500nm.
Example 3:
and mixing silicon powder and silicon dioxide powder in a ratio of 0.8:1, heating (1200-1400 ℃) until sublimating silicon dioxide negative electrode material gas, wherein the silicon dioxide negative electrode material gas is far away from the mixed and heated silicon powder and silicon dioxide in the horizontal direction, and the sublimated gas flows to a chamber where the MCMB is positioned and is separated out on the chamber under the driving of inert gas (nitrogen, argon and helium) so as to realize cladding. The average grain diameter of the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure is 5um-7um (shown in fig. 2 and 3), and the thickness of the silicon-oxygen negative electrode material coated on the surface of the mesophase carbon microsphere is 700nm.
The present application will be described in further detail with reference to examples.
Application example:
the material obtained in example 1 was used as a negative electrode material, and the electrochemical properties thereof were tested by the following specific test procedures:
at the discharge cut-off voltage: under the conditions of 0.05V and 1V of charge cut-off voltage, a charge-discharge instrument is used for carrying out constant-current discharge mode test; the method comprises the following steps: the first cycle charge and discharge test was performed at a C/20 current density, and the fourth cycle and subsequent discharge tests were performed at a C/2 current density.
The test results are shown in FIG. 4, wherein the activation is performed for five times by 0.1C in the first three times of activation at 0.05V-1V, and the long cycle at 0.5C is performed at 0.05V-1V; wherein after 300 circles of circulation, the specific capacity is 669mAh/g, and the corresponding specific capacity retention rate is: 88.3%. Therefore, the silicon-carbon composite anode with the structure has good cycle performance.
The materials obtained in example 2 and example 3 were used as negative electrode materials, and the materials were tested under the same conditions as described above, to obtain a specific capacity of 650mAh/g and 662mAh/g, respectively, after 300 cycles, and specific capacity retention rates of 87.8% and 89.1%, respectively. From this, it can be seen that the silicon carbon composite anode of the structures of example 2 and example 3 also has better cycle performance.
Next, according to an embodiment of the present application, there is provided a battery including: the composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure of any one of the preceding embodiments of the application.
In addition, according to an embodiment of the present application, there is also provided a method for manufacturing a battery, including: the method of preparing a composite silicon-oxygen-carbon negative electrode structure according to any one of the preceding embodiments of the present application.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solution of the present application, and not for limiting the same; although the application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical scheme described in the foregoing embodiments can be modified or some or all of the technical features thereof can be replaced by equivalents; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit of the application.