Sodium-ion battery negative electrode active material and its preparation method and application
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of sodium-ion battery negative electrode active material and its preparation method and application, be specifically related to the higher sodium-ion battery negative electrode active material of a kind of current potential platform, its preparation method reaches the application for the preparation of anode material of lithium-ion battery, negative pole and sodium-ion battery.
Background technology
Since the end of the eighties, Sony company produced first lithium ion battery, with its high-energy-density, long circulation life, the characteristics such as environmental pollution is little, on miniaturized electronics, be widely used, and begin in recent years to be applied to electric motor car and large-scale energy storage device.
But along with the day by day consumption of lithium resource, people begin to turn one's attention to the more sodium of horn of plenty of resource.About the at present existing many reports of the positive active material that is used for sodium-ion battery, such as the Na of NASICON structure
3Fe
2(PO
4)
3(C.Delmas, F.Cherkaoui, et.al., Mater.Res.Bull.22,631 (1987)), NaTi
2(PO
4)
3(S.Okada, T.Yamamoto, et.al., J.Power Sources, 146,570-574 (2005)), metal sulfide FeS
2, TiS
2And oxide Na
0.44MnO
2(Sauvage F.; Laffont L.; Tarascon J.-M.et.al., Inorganic Chemistry, 46,3289 (1996)).But the negative material of sodium-ion battery rarely has report in addition except hard carbon ball (D.A.Steven andJ.R.Dahn, J.Electrochem.Soc., 147,1271 (2000)).With question marks in lithium ion battery seemingly because the current potential platform of hard carbon material is lower, be easy to form in negative terminal surface the deposition of sodium metal, cause sode cell to have potential safety hazard.
Because there are larger difference in lithium ion battery and sodium-ion battery in all many-sides, greater than lithium ion, many oxidation-reduction pairs are with respect to Na such as the sodium ion radius
+The current potential of/Na is usually than Li
+Therefore the low 0.3~0.5V of/Li etc. directly apply to sodium-ion battery with the negative electrode active material of lithium ion battery and are difficult to satisfy instructions for use.For example, the graphite cathode that generally uses in the commercial batteries at present, the capacity of its embedding sodium is very low and can not circulate; And for example, the high power capacity negative material silicon in the lithium ion battery does not have the activity of embedding sodium yet.At present, still need continue to seek and have high taking off/negative material of embedding sodium current potential.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, the object of the invention is to overcome present anode material of lithium-ion battery current potential lower and easily form the defective of sodian deposition, a kind of sodium-ion battery negative electrode active material with high potential platform and its preparation method and application is provided.
The invention provides a kind of sodium-ion battery negative electrode active material, the general formula of this negative electrode active material is Li
4-xM
1 xTi
5-yM
2 yO
12, wherein, M
1Be doped metal ion, can be selected from Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Y, Zr, Nb, Ag, In, Sn, La, Ce, Ta, W, La or Ce, M
2Be doped metal ion, can be selected from Li, Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ag, In, Sn, Ta, W, La or Ce, 0≤x≤4,0≤y≤0.5.For example, work as M
2Be Mg, x=0, during y=0.05, the chemical formula of described negative electrode active material is Li
4Ti
4.95Mg
0.05O
12
As preferably, M
1Can be selected from Na, Cu, M
2Can be selected from Mg, Al, Cu, Zn, Zr, Nb, 0≤x≤2,0≤y≤0.2.As more preferably, M
1Can be selected from Na, M
2Can be selected from Mg, Al, Cu, Nb, 0≤x≤1,0≤y≤0.05.
According to negative electrode active material of the present invention, wherein, described negative electrode active material can be coated with one or more of carbon-coating, metal level, nitride layer, oxide skin(coating) and high polymer layer.
According to negative electrode active material of the present invention, wherein, the thickness of described carbon-coating, metal level, nitride layer, oxide skin(coating) and high polymer layer can be 1~10nm independently of one another.
The present invention also provides the preparation method of described negative electrode active material, and described preparation method can be selected from any in spray drying process, solid phase method or the sol-gel process.
Described spray drying process can for: with carbonate, titanyl compound, the M of lithium
1Compound, M
2Compound mix according to the stoichiometric proportion of negative electrode active material, also grind evenly take ethanol as solvent, spray-dried precursor powder places in the crucible gained precursor powder in 650~1000 ℃ of lower processing 2~20 hours, grinds and namely gets described negative electrode active material.
Described solid phase method can for: with hydroxide, titanyl compound, the M of lithium
1Compound, M
2Compound mix according to the stoichiometric proportion of negative electrode active material, after grinding evenly precursor powder, the gained precursor powder is placed in the crucible in 650~1000 ℃ of lower processing 2~20 hours, grind and namely get described negative electrode active material.
Described sol-gel process is: the stoichiometric proportion according to negative electrode active material takes by weighing an amount of lithium acetate and butyl titanate and is dissolved in respectively absolute ethyl alcohol, ethanol solution with lithium acetate in whipping process slowly joins in the ethanol solution of butyl titanate, and adding citric acid, form aqueous precursor gel, place crucible in 650~1000 ℃ of lower processing 2~20 hours the gained aqueous precursor gel, grind and namely get described negative electrode active material.
Preparation in accordance with the present invention, wherein, can adopt in the following methods any that described negative electrode active material is coated one or more of carbon-coating, metal level, nitride layer, oxide skin(coating) and high polymer layer: (1) adds sucrose, glucose, organic polymer, ionic liquid or slaine in described precursor powder or gel; (2) in described negative electrode active material, add sucrose, glucose, organic polymer, ionic liquid or slaine, and under Buchholz protection heat treated; (3) adopt the thermal vapor deposition method that described presoma or described negative electrode active material are coated.
The invention provides a kind of anode material of lithium-ion battery, described negative material can comprise conductive additive and binding agent, the negative electrode active material that can also comprise negative electrode active material of the present invention or make according to preparation method of the present invention.
The invention provides a kind of sodium-ion battery negative pole, described negative pole can comprise negative material of the present invention and collector.
The invention provides a kind of sodium-ion battery, described sodium-ion battery can comprise anodal and negative pole of the present invention, and places barrier film and electrolyte between described positive pole and the described negative pole.
Described negative electrode active material during for the preparation of anode material of lithium-ion battery and negative pole, can be adopted the general manufacture method of existing lithium ion battery.That is, with negative electrode active material of the present invention with as the powder of conductive additive (such as carbon black, acetylene black, graphite powder, carbon nano-tube, graphite rare etc.) ground and mixed, described conductive additive accounts for 0~20wt%.Then with general binder solution, for example can be NMP (1-METHYLPYRROLIDONE) solution of PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride), be mixed into uniform sizing material, be coated on (such as Copper Foil, titanium foil, nickel screen, nickel foam etc.) preparation electrode slice on the collector, the thickness of gained film can be 2~500 μ m after applying.The electrode obtained sheet is cut into suitable shape, and 100~150 ℃ of lower oven dry are rear for subsequent use in being essentially the environment of vacuum.
The improvements of described sodium-ion battery are to use negative electrode active material provided by the invention, and other part and preparation method are conventionally known to one of skill in the art, repeat no more herein.Described sodium-ion battery can be water system, non-water or all solid state sodium-ion battery.Described sodium-ion battery have cost low, have extended cycle life, the energy density high, can be widely used in solar energy, the required extensive energy storage device of wind power generation, and the field such as intelligent grid peak regulation, distribution power station, back-up source, communication base station, especially be suitable as extensive energy storage device.
The present invention also provides the application of described negative electrode active material for the preparation of anode material of lithium-ion battery, negative pole and sodium-ion battery.
Sodium-ion battery negative electrode active material of the present invention has higher current potential platform (can reach 0.8~0.9V), the phenomenon that can effectively avoid sodium metal to deposit at negative pole, (first all discharge capacities are greater than 180mAh/g under C/10 also to have good capacity density and coulombic efficiency, coulombic efficiency can reach approximately 84%), thereby the invention provides and a kind ofly have high potential platform, safe and capacity density and the well behaved sodium-ion battery negative electrode active material of enclosed pasture efficient, and the negative material and the sodium-ion battery that comprise this negative electrode active material.
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Below, describe by reference to the accompanying drawings embodiment of the present invention in detail, wherein:
Fig. 1 shows ESEM (SEM) figure of the negative electrode active material of the embodiment of the invention 1;
Fig. 2 shows X-ray diffraction (XRD) collection of illustrative plates of the negative electrode active material of the embodiment of the invention 1;
Fig. 3 shows the last fortnight charging and discharging curve of the sodium-ion battery of the embodiment of the invention 1;
Fig. 4 shows the last fortnight charging and discharging curve of the sodium-ion battery of the embodiment of the invention 2;
Fig. 5 shows the first five all charging and discharging curve of the sodium-ion battery of the embodiment of the invention 3;
Fig. 6 shows the first and the 5th all charging and discharging curves of the sodium-ion battery of the embodiment of the invention 6;
Fig. 7 shows the last fortnight charging and discharging curve of the sodium-ion battery of Comparative Examples 1.
Embodiment
Further specify the present invention below by specific embodiment, still, should be understood to, these embodiment are only used for the usefulness that specifically describes more in detail, and should not be construed as for limiting in any form the present invention.
General description is carried out to the material and the test method that use in the present invention's test in this part.Although for realizing that the employed many materials of the object of the invention and method of operation are well known in the art, the present invention still does to describe in detail as far as possible at this.It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that in context, if do not specify, material therefor of the present invention and method of operation are well known in the art.
Embodiment 1
The present embodiment is used for illustrating preparation and the application thereof of negative electrode active material of the present invention.
The present embodiment adopts spray drying process to prepare negative electrode active material Li
4Ti
5O
12, concrete steps are: with nano-anatase TiO
2(grain diameter is 50~100nm) and Li
2CO
3(analyzing pure) mixes by stoichiometric proportion, and take alcohol as solvent, 900 rev/mins were mixed 4 hours in agate jar, obtained milky precursor pulp; The gained precursor pulp is carried out spray drying, and drying parameter is set to: inner drying pipe temperature is 100 ℃, and outer drying tube temperature is 70 ℃, and flow rate of slurry is approximately 500 ml/hours, obtains the precursor powder of white in the rewinding bottle; Precursor powder is transferred to Al
2O
3In the crucible, 800 ℃ of lower processing 10 hours in Muffle furnace, the gained white powder is for subsequent use after grinding, and is negative electrode active material Li of the present invention
4Ti
5O
12, its SEM figure and XRD collection of illustrative plates are seen Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.Can be found out by Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, this negative electrode active material is that particle diameter is the spherical honeycombed grain of 2~8 μ m, and is Li
4Ti
5O
12Pure phase.
Above-mentioned negative electrode active material is prepared into sodium-ion battery.Concrete steps are: with the negative electrode active material Li for preparing
4Ti
5O
12Powder mixes according to 80: 10: 10 weight ratio with acetylene black, binding agent PVDF, add an amount of nmp solution, in the environment of air drying, grind and form slurry, then slurry evenly is coated on copper foil of affluxion body or the aluminium foil, be cut into the pole piece of 8 * 8mm after the drying, under vacuum condition, in 100 ℃ of dryings 10 hours, be transferred to immediately glove box for subsequent use.Carry out in the glove box that is assemblied in Ar atmosphere of simulated battery, with the sodium metal sheet as to electrode, the NaPF of 1M
6/ PC (propylene carbonate) solution take glass fibre as barrier film, is assembled into the CR2032 button cell as electrolyte.Use the constant current charge-discharge pattern to test, discharge is 0.5V by voltage, and charging is 3.0V by voltage, and all tests are all carried out under the C/10 current density.Test result is seen Fig. 3, and wherein a1, a2, b1, b2 are respectively first all charging curves, first all discharge curves, second week charging curve, second week discharge curve.Found out by Fig. 3, its first all discharge capacity can reach 185mAh/g, and first all coulombic efficiencies are about 83.3%, and charge and discharge current potential platform is about 0.8~1.0V.
Embodiment 2
The present embodiment is used for illustrating preparation and the application thereof of negative electrode active material of the present invention.
The present embodiment adopts solid phase method to prepare negative electrode active material Li
4Ti
4.95Mg
0.05O
12, concrete steps are: with TiO
2, Li (OH)
2And Mg (OH)
2Mix according to stoichiometric proportion, 900 rev/mins of dry grinding mixed 4 hours in agate jar, obtained the precursor powder of white; The gained precursor powder is transferred to Al
2O
3In the crucible, 800 ℃ of heat treatment is 10 hours in the air atmosphere, and the gained white powder is for subsequent use after grinding, and is negative electrode active material Li of the present invention
4Ti
4.95Mg
0.05O
12
Above-mentioned negative electrode active material is prepared into sodium-ion battery, and carries out electro-chemical test.Its preparation process and method of testing are with embodiment 1.Test result is seen Fig. 4, and wherein c1, c2, d1, d2 are respectively first all charging curves, first all discharge curves, second week charging curve, second week discharge curve.As seen from Figure 4, its first all discharge capacity can reach 193mAh/g, and first all coulombic efficiencies are about 80.3%, and capacity is 130mAh/g after five weeks of circulation, and charge and discharge current potential platform is about 0.8~1.0V.
Embodiment 3
The present embodiment is used for illustrating preparation and the application thereof of negative electrode active material of the present invention.
The present embodiment adopts sol-gel process to prepare negative electrode active material Li
4Ti
5O
12, and it is carried out the carbon coating process.Concrete steps are: with butyl titanate (Ti (C
4H
9O)
4) and lithium acetate (CH
3COOLi) take by weighing in right amount according to stoichiometric proportion, and be dissolved in respectively absolute ethyl alcohol.Ethanol solution with lithium acetate in whipping process joins in the ethanol solution of carbonic acid four butyl esters gradually, and adds an amount of citric acid to suppress hydrolysis, forms gradually aqueous precursor gel, and the gained aqueous precursor gel is transferred to Al
2O
3In 800 ℃ of lower processing 20 hours, obtain white powder after the grinding for subsequent use in the crucible.This white powder and ionic liquid [EMIm] [N (CN) 2] (1-ethyl-3-methy limidazolium dicyanamide) are mixed, and in Ar atmosphere, carry out pyrolysis in 600 ℃ of heating 4h, namely obtain the negative electrode active material Li that carbon coats after the cooling
4Ti
5O
12/ C, wherein the thickness of carbon-coating is essentially 1~10nm.Also can use other feasible methods that described negative electrode active material is coated carbon-coating, perhaps covered with metal layer, nitride layer, oxide skin(coating) and high polymer layer etc. herein.
The negative electrode active material that above-mentioned carbon is coated is prepared into sodium-ion battery, and carries out electro-chemical test.Its preparation process and method of testing are carried out the discharge of 100mAh/g limited capacity with embodiment 1 to battery, and test result is seen Fig. 5, and wherein e1, e2 are respectively first all charging curves and first all discharge curves.As seen from Figure 5, its first all charging capacity can reach 184mAh/g, and first all coulombic efficiencies are about 84%, and charge and discharge current potential platform is about 0.8~1.0V.
Embodiment 4
The present embodiment is used for illustrating preparation and the application thereof of negative electrode active material of the present invention.
The present embodiment adopts solid phase method to prepare negative electrode active material Li
4Ti
4.97Al
0.03O
12, concrete steps are: with TiO
2, Li (OH)
2And Al (OH)
3Mix according to stoichiometric proportion, 900 rev/mins of dry grinding mixed 4 hours in agate jar, obtained the precursor powder of white; The gained precursor powder is transferred to Al
2O
3In the crucible, 650 ℃ of heat treatment is 20 hours in the air atmosphere, and the gained white powder is for subsequent use after grinding, and is negative electrode active material Li of the present invention
4Ti
4.97Al
0.03O
12
Above-mentioned negative electrode active material is prepared into sodium-ion battery, and carries out electro-chemical test.Its preparation process and method of testing are with embodiment 1.Its first all discharge capacity can reach 190mAh/g, and first all coulombic efficiencies are about 82%, and capacity is 136mAh/g after five weeks of circulation, and charge and discharge current potential platform is about 0.8~1.0V.
Embodiment 5
The present embodiment is used for illustrating preparation and the application thereof of negative electrode active material of the present invention.
The present embodiment adopts solid phase method to prepare negative electrode active material Li
4Ti
4.85Cu
0.15O
12, concrete steps are: with TiO
2, Li (OH)
2And Cu (NO
3)
2Mix according to stoichiometric proportion, 900 rev/mins of dry grinding mixed 4 hours in agate jar, obtained the precursor powder of cyan; The gained precursor powder is transferred to Al
2O
3In the crucible, 800 ℃ of heat treatment is 2 hours in the air atmosphere, and the gained pale powder is for subsequent use after grinding, and is negative electrode active material Li of the present invention
4Ti
4.5Cu
0.5O
12
Above-mentioned negative electrode active material is prepared into sodium-ion battery, and carries out electro-chemical test.Its preparation process and method of testing are with embodiment 1.Its first all discharge capacity can reach 184mAh/g, and first all coulombic efficiencies are about 82.1%, and capacity is 146mAh/g after five weeks of circulation, and charge and discharge current potential platform is about 0.72~1.0V.
Embodiment 6
The present embodiment is used for illustrating preparation and the application thereof of negative electrode active material of the present invention.
The present embodiment adopts solid phase method to prepare negative electrode active material Li
4Ti
4.98Nb
0.02O
12, concrete steps are: with TiO
2, Li (OH)
2And Nb
2O
5Mix according to stoichiometric proportion, 900 rev/mins of dry grinding mixed 4 hours in agate jar, obtained the precursor powder of white; The gained precursor powder is transferred to Al
2O
3In the crucible, 1000 ℃ of heat treatment is 10 hours under air atmosphere, and the gained powder is for subsequent use after grinding, and is negative electrode active material Li of the present invention
4Ti
4.98Nb
0.02O
12
Above-mentioned negative electrode active material is prepared into sodium-ion battery, and carries out electro-chemical test.Its preparation process and method of testing are with embodiment 1.Test result is seen Fig. 6, and wherein f1, f2, g1, g2 are respectively first all charging curves, first all discharge curves, the 5th all charging curves, the 5th all discharge curves.As seen from Figure 6, its first all discharge capacity can reach 192mAh/g, and first all coulombic efficiencies are about 74%, and capacity is 141mAh/g after five weeks of circulation, and charge and discharge current potential platform is about 0.75~0.97V.
Embodiment 7
The present embodiment is used for illustrating preparation and the application thereof of negative electrode active material of the present invention.
The present embodiment adopts solid phase method to prepare negative electrode active material Li
3.9Na
0.1Ti
5O
12, concrete steps are: with TiO
2, Li
2CO
3, Na
2CO
3Mix according to stoichiometric proportion, 900 rev/mins of dry grinding mixed 4 hours in agate jar, obtained the precursor powder of white; The gained precursor powder is transferred to Al
2O
3In the crucible, 800 ℃ of heat treatment is 10 hours under air atmosphere, and the gained white powder is for subsequent use after grinding, and is negative electrode active material Li of the present invention
3.9Na
0.1Ti
5O
12
Above-mentioned negative electrode active material is prepared into sodium-ion battery, and carries out electro-chemical test.Its preparation process and method of testing are with embodiment 1.Its first all discharge capacity is 180mAh/g, and first all coulombic efficiencies are about 82%, and the capacity after five weeks of circulating is 140mAh/g, and charge and discharge current potential platform is about 0.7~0.9V.
Comparative Examples 1
This Comparative Examples is used for the preparation of the sodium-ion battery of explanation take hard carbon material as negative pole.
Hard carbon material and binding agent PVDF are mixed with 95: 5 weight ratio, add an amount of nmp solution, in the environment of air drying, grind and form slurry, then evenly be coated on slurry on the Copper Foil, be cut into the pole piece of 8 * 8mm after the drying, under vacuum condition, in 100 ℃ of dryings 10 hours, be transferred to immediately glove box for subsequent use.Battery assembly method and electrochemical test method are with embodiment 1.
0.01~3V test result of this sodium-ion battery is seen Fig. 7, and wherein h1, h2, i1, i2 are respectively first all charging curves, first all discharge curves, second week charging curve, second week discharge curve.As seen from the figure, first all discharge capacities of the sodium-ion battery take hard carbon material as negative pole are 290mAh/g, first all efficient is 67%, its discharge platform than many parts below 0.1V, sedimentation potential close to sodium metal, be very easy to cause sodian deposition, will cause safely adverse effect to the use of full battery.Its coulombic efficiency is low simultaneously, has wasted positive electrode capacity.
And the charging/discharging voltage platform of sodium-ion battery that adopts negative electrode active material of the present invention is substantially at 0.7~0.9V, the safety issue that can avoid sodian deposition to bring; Its first all efficient can reach 84%, and reversible capacity generally can reach 150mAh/g, shows good electrochemical properties.Significantly, negative electrode active material provided by the present invention more meets the use needs as the negative pole of sodium-ion battery than traditional hard carbon material.
Although the present invention has carried out description to a certain degree, significantly, under the condition that does not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention, can the suitable variation of each condition of carrying out.Be appreciated that to the invention is not restricted to described embodiment, and be attributed to the scope of claim, it comprises the replacement that is equal to of described each factor.