Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for preparing a silicon-copper alloy of a lithium ion power battery as a negative electrode material, which aims to solve the problems in the background technology.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following scheme to realize the following steps:
the invention provides a method for preparing a silicon-copper alloy cathode material of a lithium ion power battery, which comprises the following steps:
(1) weighing silicon powder and copper powder according to the mass ratio of (3-5) to 1, mixing, then putting into a ball milling tank, and adding steel balls into the ball milling tank according to the ball material ratio of (10-30) to 1;
(2) placing the ball milling tank on a planetary ball mill, firstly carrying out low-speed ball milling for 1-2h at 50-200r/min, then carrying out high-speed ball milling for 6-18h at 500r/min with 300-;
(3) fully and uniformly grinding the composite material by using an agate mortar, and then mixing the ground composite material, acetylene black and a water-based binder according to a mass ratio of 8:1:1 to obtain a mixture;
(4) adding ultrapure water and absolute ethyl alcohol into the mixture, wherein the volume ratio of the ultrapure water to the absolute ethyl alcohol is more than 10:1, fully mixing the ultrapure water to the absolute ethyl alcohol, and then preparing into slurry with appropriate viscosity to obtain the cathode material.
Preferably, in the step (1), the particle size of the silicon powder is 5-20 μm, and the particle size of the copper powder is 200-500 meshes.
Preferably, in the step (1), the steel balls are placed into deionized water in advance, subjected to ultrasonic treatment, dried and then placed into a ball milling tank.
Preferably, in the step (3), the aqueous binder is a sodium alginate solution with a mass fraction of 3%.
The invention also provides an application of the silicon-copper alloy for preparing the lithium ion power battery as a negative electrode material, which specifically comprises the following steps:
s1: coating the prepared slurry on a current collector on a copper foil flatly and uniformly by using a full-automatic coating machine, and drying the coated copper foil in an oven;
s2: tabletting the copper foil dried in the step S1 by using a powder tabletting machine, controlling the gauge pressure to be 10MPa, and processing the compacted tablets into electrode plates by using a tablet punching machine;
s3: and drying the electrode plate, putting the electrode plate into a glove box filled with argon gas, assembling a battery, wherein the diaphragm is a polypropylene film, the electrolyte is the mixture of lithium hexafluorophosphate, ethylene carbonate and diethyl carbonate, the electrolyte is 10 wt% of vinyl fluoride carbonate, and the electrode plate is a negative electrode, and assembling the battery into the button cell with the model number of CR 2025.
In step S3, the concentration of lithium hexafluorophosphate is 1M, and the volume ratio of ethylene carbonate to diethyl carbonate is 1: 1.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) the method provided by the invention is a chemical mechanical synthesis method, the adopted raw materials are common chemicals such as commercial micron-sized silicon powder, copper powder and the like, and the raw materials are easy to obtain and low in cost;
(2) the composite material prepared by the simple solid-phase reaction has higher Initial Coulombic Efficiency (ICE) than the composite material prepared by the chemical method, because the composite material prepared by the chemical method contains residual impurities;
(3) the invention adopts a solid-state synthesis method which can be applied to the current production process, and has the advantages of improving the simplicity of the process and the possibility of large-scale production;
(4) the invention has no acid washing, no toxicity, no participation and discharge of organic solvents and gases such as pungent smell and the like in solid synthesis, and is beneficial to environmental protection in industrial production;
(5) in the invention, the high temperature generated by the ball milling collision of the silicon and copper phase interface is subjected to chemical reaction to generate Cu3A Si phase connecting the copper phase and the silicon phase, the structure between the particles being Si-Cu3Si-Cu nanocomposite anodes using conductive and inactive Cu formed in silicon3Si phase as buffer medium, highly conductive Cu3Si has excellent mechanical flexibility and high electronic conductivity, can slow down structural degradation, provides high conductivity, and is optimized to Si-Cu3The Si-Cu nano composite anode has good cycle performance and reversible capacity.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Example 1
A method for preparing a silicon-copper alloy of a lithium ion power battery as a negative electrode material specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) weighing 0.8g of silicon powder with the particle size of 20 mu m and 0.2g of copper powder with the particle size of 400 meshes, mixing, then putting into a ball milling tank, and adding 20g of steel balls into the ball milling tank;
(2) placing the ball milling tank on a planetary ball mill, firstly carrying out low-speed ball milling for 1h at 100r/min, then carrying out high-speed ball milling for 6h at 400r/min, and filtering to obtain a composite material;
(3) fully and uniformly grinding the composite material by using an agate mortar for 30min, and then mixing the ground composite material, acetylene black and a water-based binder according to a mass ratio of 8:1:1 to obtain a mixture;
(4) adding ultrapure water and absolute ethyl alcohol into the mixture, wherein the volume ratio of the ultrapure water to the absolute ethyl alcohol is more than 10:1, fully mixing the ultrapure water to the absolute ethyl alcohol, and then preparing into slurry with appropriate viscosity to obtain the cathode material.
Putting the steel ball into deionized water in advance, performing ultrasonic treatment, drying and then putting into a ball milling tank; the aqueous binder is sodium alginate solution with the mass fraction of 3%.
The application of the silicon-copper alloy for preparing the lithium ion power battery as the negative electrode material specifically comprises the following steps:
s1: coating the prepared slurry on a current collector on a copper foil flatly and uniformly by using a full-automatic coating machine, drying the coated copper foil in an oven, and drying at 60 ℃ for 12 hours;
s2: tabletting the copper foil dried in the step S1 by using a powder tabletting machine, controlling the gauge pressure to be 10MPa, and processing the compacted tablets into electrode plates by using a tablet punching machine;
s3: and drying the electrode plate in a vacuum oven at 120 ℃ for 12h, putting the electrode plate into a glove box filled with argon gas, assembling a battery, wherein a diaphragm is a polypropylene film, an electrolyte is a mixture of lithium hexafluorophosphate, ethylene carbonate and diethyl carbonate, an electrolyte is 10 wt% of vinyl fluoride carbonate, and the electrode plate is a negative electrode, and assembling the battery into a CR2025 button battery.
The concentration of lithium hexafluorophosphate was 1M and the volume ratio of ethylene carbonate to diethyl carbonate was 1: 1.
Example 2
A method for preparing a silicon-copper alloy of a lithium ion power battery as a negative electrode material specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) weighing 0.6g of silicon powder with the particle size of 20 mu m and 0.2g of copper powder with the particle size of 400 meshes, mixing, then putting into a ball milling tank, and adding 30g of steel balls into the ball milling tank;
(2) placing the ball milling tank on a planetary ball mill, firstly carrying out low-speed ball milling for 1h at 50r/min, then carrying out high-speed ball milling for 18h at 500r/min, and filtering to obtain a composite material;
(3) fully and uniformly grinding the composite material by using an agate mortar for 30min, and then mixing the ground composite material, acetylene black and a water-based binder according to a mass ratio of 8:1:1 to obtain a mixture;
(4) adding ultrapure water and absolute ethyl alcohol into the mixture, wherein the volume ratio of the ultrapure water to the absolute ethyl alcohol is more than 10:1, fully mixing the ultrapure water to the absolute ethyl alcohol, and then preparing into slurry with appropriate viscosity to obtain the cathode material.
Putting the steel ball into deionized water in advance, performing ultrasonic treatment, drying and then putting into a ball milling tank; the aqueous binder is sodium alginate solution with the mass fraction of 3%.
The application of the silicon-copper alloy for preparing the lithium ion power battery as the negative electrode material specifically comprises the following steps:
s1: coating the prepared slurry on a current collector on a copper foil flatly and uniformly by using a full-automatic coating machine, drying the coated copper foil in an oven, and drying at 60 ℃ for 12 hours;
s2: tabletting the copper foil dried in the step S1 by using a powder tabletting machine, controlling the gauge pressure to be 10MPa, and processing the compacted tablets into electrode plates by using a tablet punching machine;
s3: and drying the electrode plate in a vacuum oven at 120 ℃ for 12h, putting the electrode plate into a glove box filled with argon gas, assembling a battery, wherein a diaphragm is a polypropylene film, an electrolyte is a mixture of lithium hexafluorophosphate, ethylene carbonate and diethyl carbonate, an electrolyte is 10 wt% of vinyl fluoride carbonate, and the electrode plate is a negative electrode, and assembling the battery into a CR2025 button battery.
The concentration of lithium hexafluorophosphate was 1M and the volume ratio of ethylene carbonate to diethyl carbonate was 1: 1.
Example 3
On the basis of example 1, the ball milling time in step (2) was adjusted to 12 hours while keeping the other conditions unchanged.
Example 4
On the basis of example 1, the ball milling time in step (2) was adjusted to 18 hours while keeping the other conditions unchanged.
As can be seen from fig. 1: commercially pure silicon powders are irregular in shape but have a particle size of substantially between 20 and 25 μm.
As can be seen from fig. 3: compared with a pure silicon battery, the cycle life performance of the silicon-copper alloy is greatly improved. Under different ball milling time, Si-Cu is formed after ball milling for 6h3After the Si-Cu alloy negative electrode material is circulated for 50 circles under the current density of 100mA/g, the discharge specific capacity can be kept at 457.536mAh/g, and only pure silicon powder is leftLower 135.431 mAh/g.
As can be seen from fig. 4: the semicircle of the high frequency region represents the SEI film resistance (Rf) and the straight line at the low frequency represents the Warburg resistance (W) in the electrolyte. It is clear that the conductivity ratio of pure silicon Si-Cu3The Si-Cu alloy cathode material is much poorer, and among the four electrodes, the silicon-copper alloy electrode has the smallest resistance after ball milling for 6 hours, which is caused by the introduction of copper, and the high conductivity of the copper can provide mechanical strength, so that the charge transfer dynamics is enhanced, and the charge transfer resistance is reduced.
In the description herein, references to the description of "one embodiment," "an example," "a specific example" or the like are intended to mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
The preferred embodiments of the invention disclosed above are intended to be illustrative only. The preferred embodiments are not exhaustive. Obviously, many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention. The invention is limited only by the claims and their full scope and equivalents.