Patent Grant
10396355
This application claims the priority of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2014-0042226, filed on Apr. 9, 2014 in the KIPO (Korean Intellectual Property Office), the disclosure of which is incorporated herein entirely by reference. Further, this application is the National Stage application of International Application No. PCT/KR2015/003575, filed Apr. 9, 2015, which designates the United States and was published in Korean. Each of these applications is hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety into the present application.
The inventive concept relates to a secondary battery technology, and more particularly, to an anode active material for a secondary battery and a method of fabricating the anode active material.
Secondary batteries are rechargeable and dischargeable by using an electrode material having excellent reversibility, and lithium secondary batteries have been commercialized representatively. Lithium secondary batteries are expected to be provided in moveable units such as vehicles or to be applied as medium and large sized power source used in a power storage of a power supply network such as a smart grid, as well as small sized power source of small information technology (IT) appliances such as smart phones, portable computers, and electronic paper.
When lithium metal is used as an anode material of a lithium secondary battery, dendrites may be formed, and thereby causing shorting of the battery or a risk of explosion. Thus, instead of using the lithium metal, crystalline carbon such as graphite and artificial graphite or carbon based active material such as soft carbon or hard carbon having a theoretical capacity of 372 mAh/g and capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions has been mainly used as an anode. However, as applications of secondary batteries have increased, demands for secondary batteries having high capacity and high output have increased more, and accordingly, non-carbon based anode materials capable of generating an alloy with lithium, for example, silicon (Si), tin (Sn), or aluminum (Al) having a capacity of 500 mAh/g or greater that may replace the theoretical capacity of the carbon based anode material, have drawn attention.
Among the above non-carbon based anode materials, silicon has a theoretical capacity of about 4200 mAh/g that is the largest among those materials, and thus, applications of silicon are considered to be important in view of capacity. However, since silicon expands about four times greater in volume during a charging operation, an electric connection between active materials may broke or an active material may be isolated from a current collector due to a volume variation during charging and discharging processes, and an irreversible reaction such as forming of a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) may occur and lifespan may degrade because of an erosion of the active material due to an electrolyte. Therefore, there is a barrier in commercializing the silicon as the anode material.
Therefore, in order to apply a silicon material, it is necessary to restrain the volume variation during the charging and discharging and to improve an irreversible capacity of a battery. In addition, as demands for secondary batteries explosively increase, it is necessary to ensure a fabricating technology capable of massively producing silicon anode active materials.
The inventive concept provides an anode active material capable of improving an irreversible capacity and reducing a volume variation during charging and discharging to have a high energy density, high capacity, and longer lifespan, by using silicon.
The inventive concept provides a method of economically, rapidly, and massively fabricating a silicon anode active material having the above advantages.
According to an aspect of the inventive concept, there is provided a silicon-based active material composite including: silicon and silicon oxide formed by oxidizing at least some of the silicon, wherein an amount of oxygen with respect to a total weight of the silicon and the silicon oxide is restricted to 9 wt % to 20 wt %.
In one embodiment, the silicon-based active material composite may include a core of the silicon, and a shell of the silicon oxide for surrounding the core. The shell of the silicon oxide may have a thickness ranging from 2 nm to 30 nm. Preferably, the shell of the silicon oxide may have a thickness ranging from 3 nm to 15 nm. In another embodiment, the silicon-based active material composite may include a silicon matrix and the silicon oxide dispersed in the silicon matrix.
An average diameter of the silicon -based active material composite may range from 30 nm to 300 nm. Preferably, an average diameter of the silicon-based active material composite may range from 30 nm to 200 nm. In one embodiment, a conductive layer may be formed on an outer portion of the silicon-based active material composite. The conductive layer may include an amorphous carbon layer or conductive metal oxide particles.
According to another aspect of the inventive concept, there is provided a method of fabricating a silicon-based active material composite, the method including: providing silicon particles; and oxidizing the silicon particles to form a silicon-based active material composite including silicon and silicon oxide obtained by oxidizing at least a part of the silicon, wherein an amount of oxygen with respect to a total weight of the silicon and the silicon oxide is restricted to 9 wt % to 20 wt %.
In one embodiment, the oxidizing of the silicon particles may be performed by chemically oxidizing the silicon particles in a liquid solvent containing oxygen. The liquid solvent containing oxygen may include methanol, isopropyl alcohol (IPA), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), water, or a mixed solvent including two or more thereof.
In another embodiment, the oxidizing of the silicon particles may be performed by implanting oxygen ions into the silicon particles. In this case, the method may further include performing a thermal treatment at a low temperature of 50° C. to 200° C. for combining a silicon matrix and implanted oxygen while excluding a possibility of thermal oxidation of the silicon.
According to an aspect of the inventive concept, a composite of pure silicon, which includes silicon and silicon oxide obtained by oxidizing at least a part of the silicon and contains oxygen, an amount of which is restricted to 9 wt % to 20 wt % with respect to a total weight of the silicon and the silicon oxide, is manufactured in order to provide a silicon-based active material composite capable of improving lifespan and reliability while maintaining a capacity thereof at 80% or greater with respect to a theoretical capacity of silicon.
In addition, according to an aspect of the inventive concept, a method of economically fabricating a silicon-based active material composite is provided, and thereby obtaining massively the silicon-based active material composite having the above advantages by oxidizing silicon particles in a liquid solvent containing oxygen or oxidizing silicon by implanting oxygen ions.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the inventive concept will be described in detail with reference to accompanying drawings.
Embodiments of the inventive concept will be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the exemplary embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.
In the drawings, lengths and sizes of layers and regions may be exaggerated for convenience of description and clarity, and like reference numerals in the drawings denote like elements. As used herein, the term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
The terms used in the present specification are merely used to describe particular embodiments, and are not intended to limit the inventive concept. An expression used in the singular encompasses the expression of the plural, unless it has a clearly different meaning in the context. In the present specification, it is to be understood that the terms such as “comprise” and “comprising” are intended to indicate the existence of the features, numbers, steps, actions, components, parts, or combinations thereof disclosed in the specification, and are not intended to preclude the possibility that one or more other features, numbers, steps, actions, components, parts, or combinations thereof may exist or may be added.
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In some embodiments, the silicon-based active material composite 100A may further include a conductive layer 30 at the outermost portion thereof. The conductive layer 30 may further include a carbon-based conductive layer such as graphite, soft carbon, or grapheme. The conductive material 30 is provided for electric connection between the silicon-based active material composites 100A contacting each other, and for reducing an internal resistance in a current collector (not shown).
In some embodiments, the carbon-based conductive layer may be a crystalline carbon layer or at least partially amorphous carbon layer. If a carbon-based conductive layer has a high crystalline property, it may be graphite, but in this case, a surface thereof may react with an electrolyte. However, a low crystalline or an amorphous carbon layer has a chemical corrosion resistance with respect to the electrolyte, decomposition of the electrolyte is restrained during charging and discharging, and thereby improving lifespan of an anode. Also, the carbon-based conductive layer may have SP2 graphite structure having conductivity and SP3 diamond structure having an insulating property together. In order for the carbon-based conductive layer to have conductivity, SP2 may have a mole fraction that is greater than that of SP3, and the mole fraction may be adjusted through a thermal treatment process.
The above carbon-based conductive layer is an example, and the inventive concept is not limited thereto. For example, the outermost portion of the silicon-based active material composite 100A may include nano-scale particles of conductive metal oxide such as antimony tin oxide or antimony zinc oxide, or another conductive layer such as a layer of the nano-scale particles. Although not shown in
The silicon-based active material composites 100A and 100B contain oxygen, an amount of which is limited to a range of 9 wt % to 20 wt % with respect to a total weight of silicon forming the silicon core 10 and the silicon matrix 10 and the shell 20A including silicon oxide and the distributed silicon oxide 20B. Within the above range of the oxygen amount, the silicon-based active material composite having an initial charging rate and a capacity maintenance characteristic, both of which are maintained at 80% or greater, and suitable for commercialization may be provided. The silicon core 10 and the silicon matrix 10 may include primary particles, but may include secondary particles obtained from agglomeration of the primary particles. In this case, the amount of oxygen with respect to the total weight of the silicon and silicon oxide in the silicon-based active material composite is 10 wt % to 20 wt %.
The amount of oxygen is measured in an infrared ray detection method by using a commercialized element analyzer (ELTRA ONH-2000). In more detail, oxygen existing in a sample is converted into carbon dioxide by using a sample amount of 2 mg to 10 mg, calories of 8 kW, and helium (purity 99.995%) as a carrier gas, and then, a generation amount of carbon dioxide is measured to quantize the oxygen amount.
Table 1 below illustrates an initial efficiency and a capacity maintenance rate of a half cell according to an amount of oxygen, wherein the half cell has an anode manufactured by using the silicon-based active material composite according to the embodiments of the inventive concept. The capacity maintenance rate was measured after performing charging/discharging 50 times. An initial capacity that becomes a reference was 4200 mAh/g, that is, a theoretical capacity of silicon, and a power to weight ratio of the composite, which was measured according to the amount of oxygen, was illustrated.
When the amount of oxygen is less than 9 wt %, an effect of restraining volume expansion is insufficient, and thus, the capacitance maintenance rate of the silicon-based active material composite is reduced to 80% or less and lifespan deterioration due to the volume variation may not be addressed. However, when the amount of oxygen exceeds 20%, although the capacity maintenance rate is improved, the initial charging/discharging efficiency is reduced to 80% or less and an energy density degrades.
In the silicon-based active material composite, the silicon oxide may restrain the irreversibility according to the charging and discharging to improve the lifespan, by providing a tool that is capable of absorbing the stress caused by the volume variation of the silicon according to the charging and discharging. However, the silicon oxide has a lower capacity than that of silicon, and thus, an amount of silicon oxide has to be limited as illustrated in Table 1 above. The silicon oxide applied as a substitute for addressing the high volume expansion rate of silicon reduces the energy density due to an excessive oxygen amount, but in the silicon-based active material composite according to the embodiment of the inventive concept, the amount of oxygen is adjusted as described above in order to reduce the irreversibility caused by the capacity and volume variation, and thereby allowing the silicon-based active material composite to be applied as the anode active material.
The above described capacity and the capacity maintenance characteristics of the silicon-based active material composite are identified to be dependent upon sizes of the silicon-based active material composites 100A and 100B having the grain structures. The silicon-based active material composites 100A and 100B may have an average grain size in a range of 30 nm to 300 nm, and preferably, a range of 30 nm to 200 nm. When the average grain size is less than 30 nm, a relative ratio of the conductive layer or a conductive material of the particle type in an active material slurry increases, and then, a battery capacity is reduced less than 80%. In addition, when the average grain size exceeds 300 nm, a thickness of the shell including silicon oxide increases in a case of the composite 100A of the core-shell type, and thus, the capacity is greatly reduced to 50% or less even though the irreversibility according to the volume variation is improved. It is estimated that when the thickness of the shell including silicon oxide increases as described above, silicon oxide is more involved in oxidation and reduction of lithium even if the density of silicon oxide is appropriately controlled, and thus, it is difficult for the silicon core to act as the active material.
In one embodiment, in the silicon-based active material composite 100A of the core-shell structure, the shell 20A has a thickness of 2 nm to 30 nm, and within the above range, the silicon-based active material composite 100A has an initial capacity of 80% or greater. Preferably, the shell 20A of the silicon-based active material composite 100A of the core-shell structure has a thickness of 3 nm to 15 nm, and within the above range, the silicon-based active material composite 100A has an initial capacity of 90% or greater. When the thickness of the shell 20A is less than 2 nm, the volume expansion of the silicon core 10 may not be prevented due to a low mechanical strength, and when the thickness exceeds 30 nm, the shell 20A screens the silicon core 10 therein, and thereby resulting in capacity reduction.
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The silicon particles that are miniaturized are oxidized to form a silicon-based active material composite including silicon and at least a part of silicon that is oxidized (S20). Oxidation of the silicon particles accomplishes by the thermal oxidation. However, the above thermal oxidation is likely to induce oxidation reaction of silicon under a thermal equilibrium state, and thereby forming dense silicon oxide (SiO2 that substantially satisfies stoichiometry). However, even if such above silicon oxide that is dense and thermally oxidized restrains the volume variation of the silicon core and maintains the capacity maintenance rate at 80% or greater, the silicon oxide may screen the silicon core therein, and thus, it is identified that the capacity may be rapidly reduced to 60% of a theoretical capacity of silicon or less.
Therefore, in one embodiment, oxidation of the silicon particles may be achieved by chemically oxidizing the silicon particles within a liquid solvent containing oxygen. The silicon-based active material composite formed as above has an amount of oxygen restricted within a range of 9 wt % to 20 wt % with respect to total weight of silicon and silicon oxide. The liquid solvent containing oxygen may be methanol, isopropyl alcohol (IPA), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), water, or a mixed solvent including two or more thereof, and more preferably, water having less environmental load.
Methanol is hydrocarbon having the largest amount of oxygen with respect to carbon, and restrains generation of carbon component that may occur in other hydrocarbon. Thus, methanol is advantageous for forming the silicon-based active material composite having the silicon core and the silicon oxide shell formed on the core. Actually, in other hydrocarbon, generation of silicon oxide on the silicon core may be interfered or an additional thermal treatment is necessary for removing carbon in order to form the silicon oxide, and dense SiO2 is formed due to the thermal oxidation.
In another embodiment, the silicon-based active material composite may be manufactured by an oxygen ion implantation process for injecting oxygen into silicon particles that are miniaturized. The silicon particles become a silicon matrix, and ion-implanted oxygen provides silicon oxide distributed in the silicon matrix. Ion implantation energy and density in the ion implantation process are adjusted so that an amount of oxygen is limited within a range of 9 wt % to 20 wt % with respect to total weight of silicon and silicon oxide in the silicon-based active material composite. In order to combine the silicon matrix with implanted oxygen while restraining densification due to the thermal oxidation of silicon, a thermal treatment may be additionally performed at a low temperature of 50° C. to 200° C.
In another embodiment, the silicon coarse particles undergo a grinding or a pulverizing process, and at the same time, the silicon particles are chemically oxidized by at least one of compressive stress and shearing stress induced from the above process to provide a silicon-based active material composite. If a slurry of the silicon particles is formed by using the liquid solvent containing oxygen and the grinding and pulverizing processes are performed on the slurry, the particles are miniaturized to increase a sensitivity with respect to stress, and thus chemical oxidation of the silicon particles may be induced.
Also, a process of forming a conductive layer on the silicon-based active material composite may be further performed (S30). A solution in which a conductive material is distributed together with a binder in an appropriate solvent is manufactured, and then, the silicon-based active material composite is dispersed in the solution to be obtained and dried, and then, the conductive layer is provided. Alternatively, polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polyethylene (PE), or a polymeric precursor material such as polyacrylic acid (PAA) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) is dissolved in an appropriate solvent, and after that, the silicon-based active material composite is dispersed in the solvent to obtain intermediate particles wet by the polymeric precursor material. Then, the intermediate particles are dried and treated at a low temperature to obtain the conductive layer.
While the inventive concept has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the following claims.
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