Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects or improvement requirements in the prior art, the invention provides a lithium-free cathode-lithium secondary battery and a preparation method thereof, wherein a trace of substance capable of generating a shuttle effect in the charging and discharging processes of the battery is added into electrolyte so as to improve the comprehensive performance of the battery, including charging and discharging capacity, cycle life, safety and the like, and the trace of substance capable of generating the shuttle effect can react with lithium dendrite or inactive lithium (dead lithium) on the cathode side to generate a reduction reaction when the battery works; the generated product is diffused to the positive electrode side in the electrolyte, oxidation reaction occurs and the product returns to the initial state, and in the process, the substance is unchanged, but lithium dendrite and dead lithium can be effectively eliminated, interface impedance is reduced, and loss of active substance lithium is avoided to a great extent, so that the comprehensive performance of the lithium-free negative electrode-lithium secondary battery can be effectively improved.
In order to achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a lithium-free negative-electrode secondary battery, wherein a modified electrolyte is used in the battery, and a trace substance is added in the modified electrolyte, and the trace substance is capable of generating a shuttle effect, and shuttles back and forth between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery and performs electrochemical and chemical reactions to eliminate lithium dendrites and activate dead lithium; the trace substances and the intermediate products thereof can be dissolved in the electrolyte, and can respectively perform reduction reaction and oxidation reaction with the cathode and the anode in the working voltage interval of the battery, and finally return to the initial state.
Further, the trace species comprises iodine, polyiodide, lithium iodide, and lithium polysulfide.
Further, the lithium-free negative electrode of the battery is composed of a metallic current collector.
Further, the metal current collector is composed of a copper foil.
Further, the positive electrode of the battery is a lithium-containing positive electrode.
Further, the positive electrode comprises lithium iron phosphate, lithium cobaltate and nickel cobalt manganese lithium.
Further, the concentration of the trace substance in the modified electrolyte is less than 0.5M.
Further, the concentration of the trace substance is less than 0.1M.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing the lithium-free negative electrode-lithium secondary battery as described above.
Further, a trace amount of substance was added to the electrolyte, and the mixture was stirred on a magnetic stirring table at room temperature until completely dissolved, thereby obtaining the modified electrolyte.
In general, compared with the prior art, the lithium-free negative electrode-lithium secondary battery and the preparation method thereof provided by the invention have the following beneficial effects:
1. the invention can effectively eliminate the lithium dendrite by utilizing the shuttle effect and activate the dead lithium without electronic contact, thereby effectively improving the comprehensive properties of the lithium-free cathode-lithium secondary battery, including charge and discharge capacity, cycle life and safety.
2. The method is simple and low in cost, and only a trace amount of substances capable of generating the shuttle effect need to be added into the existing electrolyte system.
3. The invention can effectively ensure the inherent energy density advantage of the system while improving the comprehensive performance of the lithium-free cathode full cell, and compared with other improving modes, the invention introduces little quality of other components.
4. The concentration of the trace substance is below 0.5M, and more preferably below 0.1M, so that the trace substance can generate a certain shuttling effect, and the battery cannot be disabled due to a serious shuttling effect.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention. In addition, the technical features involved in the embodiments of the present invention described below may be combined with each other as long as they do not conflict with each other.
The lithium-free cathode-lithium secondary battery and the preparation method thereof provided by the invention have the advantages that the battery adopts modified electrolyte, trace substances are added in the modified electrolyte, the trace substances can generate a shuttle effect, and the trace substances shuttle back and forth between the anode and the cathode of the battery and generate electrochemical and chemical reactions to eliminate lithium dendrites and activate dead lithium; the trace substances and the intermediate products thereof can be dissolved in the electrolyte, and can respectively perform reduction reaction and oxidation reaction with the cathode and the anode in the working voltage interval of the battery, and finally return to the initial state.
The trace substance comprises iodine, polyiodide, lithium iodide and lithium polysulfide. The lithium-free negative electrode of the battery is composed of a metal current collector, preferably, the metal current collector is composed of copper foil. The positive electrode of the battery is a lithium-containing positive electrode, and preferably, the components of the positive electrode comprise lithium iron phosphate, lithium cobaltate, lithium nickel cobalt manganese and the like.
The concentration of the trace species in the modified electrolyte needs to be such as to produce some shuttling effect, but not so high as to render the cell inoperable due to severe shuttling effect. Preferably, the concentration of the trace substance is 0.5M or less, and more preferably, the concentration thereof is 0.1M or less.
The present invention also provides a method for preparing a lithium-free negative electrode-lithium secondary battery, which is used for preparing the lithium-free negative electrode-lithium secondary battery, wherein trace substances are added into the electrolyte and are placed on a magnetic stirring table at room temperature to be stirred until the substances are completely dissolved, and preferably:
(a) an appropriate amount of lithium iodide powder was added to a commercial ether electrolyte [1M lithium bistrifluoromethylsulfonimide (LiTFSI) and 0.2M lithium nitrate (LiNO)3) Dissolving in 1, 3-Dioxolane (DOL) and ethylene glycol dimethyl ether (DME)]Or an ester electrolyte [1M lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6) dissolved in Ethylene Carbonate (EC), diethyl carbonate (DEC) and fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC, 5%)]Placing the mixture on a magnetic stirring table at room temperature, and stirring until the mixture is completely dissolved to obtain a modified electrolyte;
(b) appropriate amounts of sulfur powder and lithium sulfide powder were added to a commercial ether electrolyte [1M lithium bistrifluoromethylsulfonimide (LiTFSI) and 0.2M lithium nitrate (LiNO)3) Dissolving in 1, 3-Dioxolane (DOL) and ethylene glycol dimethyl ether (DME)]And (4) placing the mixture on a magnetic stirring table at room temperature, and stirring until the mixture is completely dissolved, thereby obtaining the modified electrolyte.
And secondly, assembling the positive electrode, the negative electrode, the diaphragm, the modified electrolyte and the like together to obtain the lithium-free negative electrode-lithium secondary battery with improved comprehensive performance.
The analytical test method and the assembly and test process of the lithium iron phosphate full cell used in the following examples are as follows:
(1) scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) testing: the instrument model of the scanning electron microscope is FESEM, FEI Quanta 650; sample preparation and test methods: in a glove box filled with argon and having water and oxygen contents lower than 0.1ppm, the battery after the first charge cycle was disassembled, the negative electrode on which lithium had been deposited was taken out, washed with dimethyl ether glycol (DME) and dried, and then stuck to a sample stage, and then hermetically transferred to an apparatus for testing.
(2) Preparing modified electrolyte: in a glove box filled with argon and having a water and oxygen content below 0.1ppm, 0.025M, 0.05M lithium iodide (LiI) powder was added to commercial ethers [1M lithium bis (trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide (LiTFSI) and 0.2M lithium nitrate (LiNO), respectively3) Dissolving in 1, 3-Dioxolane (DOL) or ethylene glycol dimethyl ether (DME)]And esters [1M lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF)6) Dissolved in Ethylene Carbonate (EC), diethyl carbonate (DEC) and fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC, 5%)]Stirring the formed electrolyte on a magnetic stirring table at room temperature until the electrolyte is completely dissolved to prepare four electrolytes, namely 0.025M-LiI-ether, 0.05M-LiI-ether, 0.025M-LiI-ester and 0.05-LiI-ester; 0.025M lithium sulfide (Li) was added separately2S) powder with 0.1M Sulfur (S) powder, 0.05M lithium sulfide (Li)2S) powder with 0.2M Sulfur (S) powder to commercial ethers [1M lithium bis (trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide (LiTFSI) and 0.2M lithium nitrate (LiNO)3) Dissolving in 1, 3-Dioxolane (DOL) and ethylene glycol dimethyl ether (DME)]The electrolyte is placed on a magnetic stirring table at room temperature and stirred until the electrolyte is completely dissolved, and the electrolyte is prepared into 0.025M-Li2S5-ether, 0.05M-Li2S5-ether two electrolytes.
(3) Assembling a lithium-free negative electrode full battery: and (3) using commercial lithium iron phosphate as a positive electrode and commercial copper foil as a negative electrode, and respectively adopting the 6 modified electrolytes to assemble the battery.
(4) Testing of a lithium-free negative electrode full cell: the test uses a Land tester, the charging and discharging interval is 2.5-3.8V (ether) or 2.5-4.0V (ester), the cycle rate is 0.5C, and the battery test temperature is room temperature (25 ℃).
The present invention will be further illustrated with reference to specific examples.
Example 1
And (3) assembling the lithium-free negative electrode full battery by using the electrolyte solution I0.025M-LiI-ether, and performing charge and discharge tests on the battery at room temperature according to a set charge and discharge program.
Example 2
And assembling the lithium-free cathode full battery by using the electrolyte of 0.05M-LiI-ether, and performing charge and discharge tests on the battery at room temperature according to a set charge and discharge program. The materials and operation were the same as in example 1 except that the electrolyte solution was different.
Fig. 1 is an SEM representation of lithium deposited on a copper foil after the first charge cycle of the full cell of example 2, and it can be seen that lithium particles deposited on the copper foil are large and mainly distributed in a block shape, and a little granular lithium is distributed on the lithium particles, indicating that under the shuttling effect of the electrolyte additive LiI, lithium deposition can be more uniform, and the generation of dead lithium can be reduced.
Fig. 2 is an SEM characterization of lithium deposition on the copper foil after the first discharge of the full cell of example 2, where the copper foil surface was flat with little remaining lithium, indicating that the shuttling of the electrolyte additive LiI activated dead lithium and reduced the buildup of dead lithium on the copper foil.
Example 3
And assembling the lithium-free cathode full battery by using the electrolyte solution and 0.025M-LiI-ester, and performing charge and discharge tests on the battery at room temperature according to the set charge and discharge program. The materials and operation were the same as in example 1 except that the electrolyte solution was different.
Example 4
And assembling the lithium-free cathode full cell by using the electrolyte 0.05M-LiI-ester, and carrying out charge and discharge tests on the cell at room temperature according to the set charge and discharge program. The materials and operation were the same as in example 1 except that the electrolyte solution was different.
Example 5
Using electrolyte solution of 0.025M-Li2S5Ether assembly of lithium-free negative electrode full cells, and charge and discharge tests were performed on the cells at room temperature according to the set charge and discharge program. The materials and operation were the same as in example 1 except that the electrolyte solution was different.
Example 6
Using an electrolyte of 0.05M-Li2S5Ether assembly of lithium-free negative electrode full cells, and charge and discharge tests were performed on the cells at room temperature according to the set charge and discharge program. The materials and operation were the same as in example 1 except that the electrolyte solution was different.
Comparative example 1
The lithium-free negative electrode full cell was assembled using a commercial ether electrolyte, and a charge and discharge test was performed on the cell at room temperature according to a set charge and discharge program. The materials and operation were the same as in example 1 except that the electrolyte solution was different.
Fig. 3 is an SEM representation of lithium deposited on the copper foil after the first charge of the full cell of comparative example 1, and it can be seen that most of the lithium on the copper foil is in powder form, possibly due to powdering of the deposited lithium metal, and that the powdered lithium particles are susceptible to losing electronic contact to form dead lithium and thus lose activity, in sharp contrast to fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is an SEM characterization of lithium deposited on the copper foil after the first discharge of the full cell of comparative example 1, and it can be seen that a large amount of rugged lithium metal is also present on the surface of the copper foil, in sharp contrast to fig. 2, indicating that lithium deposition on the copper foil in commercial ether electrolyte produces a large amount of dead lithium.
Comparative example 2
And (3) assembling the lithium-free cathode full battery by using the commercial ester electrolyte, and carrying out charge and discharge tests on the battery at room temperature according to the set charge and discharge program. The materials and operation were the same as in example 1 except that the electrolyte solution was different.
FIG. 5 is a comparison of the long cycle performance of examples 2, 5 and comparative example 1, and it can be seen that the LiI electrolyte additive used in example 2 is compared to the Li electrolyte additive used in example 52S5The electrolyte additive can effectively activate dead lithium by utilizing shuttle effect, thereby obviously improving the cycle performance of the lithium-free cathode full battery.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the invention, and that any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.