Disclosure of Invention
The technical problems to be solved by the invention are as follows: the binder for the hard carbon cathode of the sodium ion battery in the prior art is an organic system, has high cost, low binding strength and poor conductivity, and has the problems of low first inventory efficiency, poor rate capability, poor battery cycle stability and the like when being applied to the sodium ion battery.
Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a multifunctional aqueous binder for a sodium-ion battery; the invention also aims to provide the application of the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium ion battery in the sodium ion battery; the invention also aims to provide a sodium ion battery electrode plate; the fourth purpose of the invention is to provide a preparation method of the sodium-ion battery electrode plate; the fifth purpose of the invention is to provide a sodium ion battery.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
the invention provides a multifunctional aqueous binder for a sodium ion battery, which is prepared from a mixture of a sodium ion water-soluble polymer and polyethylene oxide and has a network structure formed by carboxyl and ester groups.
Preferably, the mass ratio of the sodium ion water-soluble polymer to the polyethylene oxide is 9-1: 1, preferably 5-9:1, and more preferably 7-9: 1.
Preferably, the sodium ion water-soluble polymer is one or more of sodium alginate, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and sodium polyacrylate, and is preferably sodium alginate.
The invention also provides application of the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium ion battery in the sodium ion battery.
The invention also provides a sodium ion battery electrode plate, which comprises a current collector and a coating coated on the current collector, wherein the coating comprises an active material, a conductive agent and the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium ion battery.
Preferably, the multifunctional aqueous binder dry matter for the sodium-ion battery in the coating accounts for 2-20% of the total mass of the dry matter of the battery electrode plate, preferably 2-10% of the total mass of the dry matter of the battery electrode plate.
Preferably, the active material is one of a carbon-based material, an alloy material, a conversion material, a polyanionic compound, prussian blue, and an organic-based material, and is preferably a carbon-based material.
Preferably, the conductive agent is one of carbon nanotubes, carbon fibers, graphene, acetylene black, Super P and Super S.
The invention also provides a preparation method of the sodium-ion battery electrode plate, which comprises the following steps: and mixing the multifunctional water-based binder for the sodium ion battery with an active material to obtain slurry, coating the slurry on the current collector to obtain a coating, and then sequentially drying the coating at normal pressure and in vacuum to obtain the sodium ion battery electrode plate, wherein the vacuum drying temperature is 80-120 ℃, and preferably 100 ℃.
Preferably, the drying temperature under normal pressure is 40-60 ℃, the drying time under normal pressure is 1-3h, and the drying time under vacuum is 8-16 h.
The invention also provides a sodium ion battery, which comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, electrolyte and a diaphragm, wherein the positive electrode and/or the negative electrode are/is the sodium ion battery electrode plate or the electrode plate prepared by the preparation method.
Preferably, the sodium ion battery is at 0.02A g-1The reversible charging specific capacity is 230-340mAhg under the current density-1Preferably 330-340mAhg-1。
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) the multifunctional aqueous binder with a three-dimensional network structure is constructed through the esterification reaction of the sodium ion water-soluble polymer and polyethylene oxide, the indentation force of the multifunctional aqueous binder can reach more than 8mN, the modulus can reach more than 5MPa, the hardness can reach more than 0.05GPa, the multifunctional aqueous binder has stronger mechanical property, can improve the binding property of the multifunctional aqueous binder to active material particles, a conductive agent and a current collector, relieve the problem of volume expansion of materials in the charging and discharging process, maintain the close contact of the whole electrode, improve the cycling stability of the electrode, and particularly for active materials with serious volume expansion in the sodium insertion/sodium removal process.
(2 the sodium ion water-soluble polymer of the invention has a large amount of carboxyl functional groups and hydroxyl functional groups, and can uniformly cover the surface of the active material by utilizing the hydrogen bond action formed on the surface of the active material to form a layer of passive film, thereby effectively inhibiting the decomposition reaction of the electrolyte in the first charge-discharge process, reducing the formation of a solid electrolyte film, reducing the loss of irreversible capacity and improving the first coulombic efficiency.
(3) The polyethylene oxide is an ionic adhesive, has rapid ion conducting capability, and improves the ion diffusion coefficient and the rate capability.
(4) Na in the multifunctional aqueous binder of the present invention+The first coulombic efficiency and rate capability of the electrode can be improved.
Detailed Description
The invention aims to provide a multifunctional aqueous binder for a sodium-ion battery.
Specifically, the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium-ion battery is prepared from a mixture of a sodium-ion water-soluble polymer and polyethylene oxide, and has a network structure formed by carboxyl and ester groups.
Preferably, the mass ratio of the sodium ion water-soluble polymer to the polyethylene oxide is 9-1: 1, preferably 5-9:1, and more preferably 7-9: 1.
Preferably, the sodium ion water-soluble polymer is one or more of sodium alginate, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and sodium polyacrylate, and is preferably sodium alginate.
The invention also aims to provide the application of the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium-ion battery in the sodium-ion battery.
The invention also provides a sodium ion battery electrode plate, which comprises a current collector and a coating coated on the current collector, wherein the coating comprises an active material, a conductive agent and the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium ion battery.
Preferably, the multifunctional aqueous binder dry matter for the sodium-ion battery in the coating accounts for 2-20% of the total mass of the dry matter of the battery electrode plate, preferably 2-10% of the total mass of the dry matter of the battery electrode plate.
Preferably, the active material is one of a carbon-based material, an alloy material, a conversion material, a polyanionic compound, prussian blue, and an organic-based material, and is preferably a carbon-based material.
Preferably, the conductive agent is one of carbon nanotubes, carbon fibers, graphene, acetylene black, Super P and Super S.
The fourth purpose of the invention is to provide a preparation method of the sodium-ion battery electrode plate, which comprises the following steps: and mixing the multifunctional water-based binder for the sodium ion battery with an active material to obtain slurry, coating the slurry on the current collector to obtain a coating, and then sequentially drying the coating at normal pressure and in vacuum to obtain the sodium ion battery electrode plate, wherein the vacuum drying temperature is 80-120 ℃, and preferably 100 ℃. The multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium ion battery completes the curing reaction process in the electrode drying process, the reaction conditions are mild, the whole process of electrode preparation also meets the requirements of green and safe production, the multifunctional aqueous binder is easy to control, high in feasibility and suitable for industrial mass production.
Preferably, the drying temperature under normal pressure is 40-60 ℃, the drying time under normal pressure is 1-3h, and the drying time under vacuum is 8-16 h.
The invention also provides a sodium ion battery, which comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, electrolyte and a diaphragm, wherein the positive electrode and/or the negative electrode is the sodium ion battery electrode plate or the electrode plate prepared by the preparation method.
Preferably, the sodium ion battery is at 0.02A g-1The reversible charging specific capacity is 230-340mAhg under the current density-1Preferably 330-340mAhg-1。
The multifunctional aqueous binder for sodium ion batteries and the application thereof will be specifically described below by specific examples and experimental examples.
The inventive examples and comparative examples used starting materials and equipment sources as shown in table 1.
TABLE 1 examples of the invention and comparative examples use sources of raw materials and equipment
Example 1
The embodiment provides a multifunctional aqueous binder for a sodium-ion battery, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: weighing 0.5g of sodium carboxymethylcellulose and 0.5g of polyethylene oxide, adding into a beaker, weighing 32.3mL of deionized water, adding into the beaker, stirring and dissolving to obtain the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium-ion battery, and marking as CMC/PEO.
Example 2
The embodiment provides a multifunctional aqueous binder for a sodium-ion battery, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: weighing 0.8g of sodium polyacrylate and 0.2g of polyethylene oxide, adding into a beaker, weighing 32.3mL of deionized water, adding into the beaker, stirring and dissolving to obtain the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium-ion battery, which is marked as SP/PEO.
Example 3
The embodiment provides a multifunctional aqueous binder for a sodium-ion battery, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: weighing 0.9g of sodium alginate and 0.1g of polyethylene oxide, adding the sodium alginate and the polyethylene oxide into a beaker, weighing 32.3mL of deionized water, adding the deionized water into the beaker, stirring and dissolving to obtain the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium-ion battery, which is marked as SA/PEO-1.
Example 4
The embodiment provides a sodium ion battery electrode plate, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: weighing 1g glucose, and heating at 3 deg.C for min under argon atmosphere-1Heating to 1500 ℃ and carbonizing for 4h to obtain glucose carbon, weighing 80mg of glucose carbon and 10mg of carbon nanotubes, adding into a mortar, mixing and grinding for 5min, transferring into a glass bottle, adding 333.3mg of the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium ion battery prepared in example 3, stirring for 12h to obtain uniform slurry, coating the slurry on a copper foil current collector by using a coater, drying for 2h at 50 ℃ in a forced air drying box, drying for 12h at 100 ℃ in a vacuum drying box, and cutting the dried electrode plate into a wafer with the diameter of 12mm, wherein the wafer is marked as EP-SA/PEO-1A.
Example 5
This example provides a sodium ion battery electrode plate, and its preparation methodThe following: weighing 1g glucose, and heating at 3 deg.C for min under argon atmosphere-1Heating to 1500 ℃ and carbonizing for 4h to obtain glucose carbon, weighing 85mg of glucose carbon and 13mg of carbon nanotubes, adding the glucose carbon and the 13mg of carbon nanotubes into a mortar, mixing and grinding for 5min, transferring the mixture into a glass bottle, adding 66.6mg of the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium ion battery prepared in the embodiment 3, stirring for 12h to obtain uniform slurry, coating the slurry on a copper foil current collector by using a coater, drying for 3h at 40 ℃ in a blast drying box, drying for 16h at 80 ℃ in a vacuum drying box, and cutting the dried electrode plate into a wafer with the diameter of 12mm, namely EP-SA/PEO-1B.
Example 6
The embodiment provides a sodium ion battery electrode plate, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: weighing 1g glucose, and heating at 3 deg.C for min under argon atmosphere-1Heating to 1500 ℃ and carbonizing for 4h to obtain glucose carbon, weighing 70mg of glucose carbon and 10mg of carbon nanotubes, adding the glucose carbon and the 10mg of carbon nanotubes into a mortar, mixing and grinding for 5min, transferring the mixture into a glass bottle, adding 666.6mg of the multifunctional aqueous binder for the sodium ion battery prepared in the embodiment 3, stirring for 12h to obtain uniform slurry, coating the slurry on a copper foil current collector by using a coater, drying at 60 ℃ for 1h in a blast drying box, drying at 120 ℃ for 8h in a vacuum drying box, and cutting the dried electrode plate into a wafer with the diameter of 12mm, namely EP-SA/PEO-1C.
Comparative example 1
0.2g of polyvinylidene fluoride was weighed and added to 3.8g of N-methylpyrrolidone to prepare a solution, which was noted as PVDF.
Comparative example 2
Weighing 1g glucose, and heating at 3 deg.C for min under argon atmosphere-1Heating to 1500 ℃ and carbonizing for 4h to obtain glucose carbon, weighing 80mg of glucose carbon and 10mg of carbon nanotubes, adding the glucose carbon and the 10mg of carbon nanotubes into a mortar, mixing and grinding for 5min, transferring the mixture into a glass bottle, adding 200mg of the binder PVDF prepared in the comparative example 1, stirring for 12h to obtain uniform slurry, coating the slurry on a copper foil current collector by using a coater, drying the copper foil current collector for 2h at 50 ℃ in a blast drying oven, drying the copper foil current collector for 12h at 100 ℃ in a vacuum drying oven, and cutting the dried electrode slice into a wafer with the diameter of 12mm, wherein the wafer is marked as EP-PVDF.
Experimental example 1
The multifunctional aqueous binder for sodium ion batteries prepared in example 3 was coated on a glass plate, vacuum-dried at 25 ℃ and 100 ℃ for 24 hours, respectively, and then scraped off, pulverized into powders by a pulverizer, designated as SA/PEO-1-25 ℃ and SA/PEO-1-100 ℃, and analyzed by Fourier infrared spectroscopy (test parameters: potassium bromide as a control, range 600--1Resolution of 4cm-1Scan 64 times) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis (test parameters: x-ray source Al K α, energy step 0.100eV, scan times 3), the results are shown in fig. 1-3.
As can be seen from FIG. 1, the infrared spectrum of the binder SA/PEO-1 is 1730cm-1A new absorption peak of the ester group (O-C ═ O) appears. This demonstrates that the carboxyl (-COOH) groups in sodium alginate and the hydroxyl (-OH) groups in polyethylene oxide (PEO) undergo esterification reactions to form a three-dimensional network structure.
As can be seen from FIGS. 2 and 3, the XPS C1s spectrum of SA/PEO-1 binder dried at 100 deg.C in vacuum showed new ester groups (-COOR) at 289.0eV, compared to the binder dried at 25 deg.C in vacuum, further demonstrating that the esterification reaction occurred during the drying of SA and PEO at 100 deg.C in vacuum.
Experimental example 2
Firstly, glucose carbon and carbon nanotubes are mixed and ground, then are respectively added into the binder prepared in the embodiment 1-3, wherein the mass ratio of the glucose carbon to the carbon nanotubes to the binder is 8:1:1, then the mechanical stirring is carried out to prepare uniform slurry, then the slurry is respectively coated on a 16mm gasket by using a coater and is transferred into a forced air drying oven to be dried for 2h at 50 ℃, and then is transferred into a vacuum drying oven to be dried for 12h at 100 ℃. Respectively marked as GC-SA/PEO, GC-CMC/PEO and GC-SP/PEO, then the mechanical properties of the samples are tested by adopting a nanoindentation instrument, and the constant strain is loaded for 0.05s in the test process-1The results are shown in FIGS. 4-6.
As can be seen from FIG. 4, the indentation force of the binder prepared by the invention can reach more than 8mN, the CMC/PEO binder prepared by the example 1 can reach more than 17mN, the SA/PEO-1 binder prepared by the example 3 can reach more than 42mN, and the binder prepared by the invention can enable the electrode to have stronger binding strength. The main reason is that the adhesive of the invention has a large amount of carboxyl and hydroxyl functional groups to form hydrogen bond with the functional groups (carboxyl and hydroxyl) on the surface of the active particles.
It can be known from fig. 5 and 6 that the modulus of the binder prepared by the invention can reach more than 5MPa, the modulus of the CMC/PEO binder prepared by example 1 reaches more than 15GPa, the modulus of the SA/PEO-1 binder prepared by example 3 reaches more than 25GPa, the hardness of the binder prepared by the invention reaches more than 0.05GPa, and the hardness of the CMC/PEO and SA/PEO-1 binders prepared by examples 1 and 3 reaches more than 0.45GPa, so that the electrode has stronger mechanical properties, the problem of poor conductive contact between the active particles and the conductive agent caused by the volume expansion and contraction behavior of the active particles in the charging and discharging process is alleviated, and the cycling stability of the electrode is improved.
Experimental example 3
SEM and mapping characterization analyses were performed on the electrode sheets prepared in example 4 and comparative example 2, respectively, and the test conditions of SEM are as follows: voltage 10Kv, current 10 μ a, mapping test conditions: the voltage was 5Kv and the current was 7. mu.A, and the results of the experiment are shown in FIGS. 7 to 10.
As can be seen from fig. 7, the F element was detected on the surface of the glucose char, indicating that PVDF was deposited on the surface of the glucose char. As can be seen from fig. 8, PVDF is adhered to the surface of the glucose char in the form of particles, and cannot uniformly cover the surface of the glucose char in the form of a film, and thus the electrolyte cannot be effectively prevented from contacting the surface of the glucose char. Therefore, the formation of SEI film of the EP-PVDF electrode cannot be inhibited, and the loss of irreversible capacity is reduced, resulting in low initial coulombic efficiency of the EP-PVDF electrode.
As can be seen from FIG. 9, Na element was detected on the surface of the glucose char, indicating that SA/PEO-1 was deposited on the surface of the glucose char. As can be seen from FIG. 10, SA/PEO-1 is uniformly coated on the surface of the glucose charcoal in the form of a thin film to form a passivation film, which prevents the electrolyte from contacting the surface of the glucose charcoal. Due to the formation of the passivation film, the EP-SA/PEO-1A electrode can suppress the formation of the SEI film, reduce the loss of irreversible capacity, and thus can obtain higher first coulombic efficiency than the EP-PVDF electrode.
Experimental example 4
The electrode sheets EP-SA/PEO-1A, EP-SA/PEO-1B, EP-SA/PEO-1C prepared in examples 4-6 and the electrode sheet EP-PVDF prepared in comparative example 2 were transferred into a glove box, respectively, and the electrode sheets prepared were used as working electrodes, ethylene carbonate and dimethyl carbonate (volume ratio 1:1) solutions containing 1mol/L sodium hexafluorophosphate were used as electrolytes, and Whatman F glass fiber membranes were used as membranes to assemble coin-cell batteries, which were designated as BA-SA/PEO-1A, BA-SA/PEO-1B, BA-SA/PEO-1C and BA-PVDF. Standing the assembled button cell for 24h, and performing charge and discharge test in a blue battery test system with cut-off voltage of 0.01-3.00V and current density of 0.02A g-1、0.05A g-1、0.1A g-1、0.2A g-1And 0.5A g-1The experimental results are shown in FIG. 11. And at a cut-off voltage of 0.01-3.00V and a current density of 0.1A g-1The cell was disassembled after 1000 cycles, and the results of the experiments were shown in FIGS. 12-13 by analyzing EP-SA/PEO-1A and EP-PVDF by scanning electron microscopy.
As can be seen from FIG. 11, the rate capability of BA-SA/PEO-1A, BA-SA/PEO-1B, BA-SA/PEO-1C and BA-PVDF was characterized at different current densities. BA-PVDF in the ranges of 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20 and 0.50A g-1The specific capacity of reversible charging is 307.6, 269.7, 196.7, 98.3 and 59.9mA h g-1BA-SA/PEO-1A at 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20 and 0.50A g-1Has a reversible capacity of 336.5, 308.5, 275.8, 193.0 and 75.9mA hr g-1BA-SA/PEO-1B at 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20 and 0.50A g-1Has a reversible capacity of 333.9, 300.0, 251.0, 154.3 and 64.9mA h g, respectively-1BA-SA/PEO-1C at 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20 and 0.50A g-1Has a reversible capacity of 232.5, 225.8, 205.8, 154.3 and 60.4mA h g, respectively-1. The results show that the addition of 2 wt%, 10 wt% and 20 wt% SA/PEO-1 binders all have good effects on improving the rate capability of the electrode of the material. Wherein the BA-SA/PEO-1A has a higher reversible capacity than BA-PVDF at the same binder level.
At 100mA g-1After 1000 times of circulation, the cell is disassembled and EP-SA is/are judged by a scanning electron microscopeThe electrode morphology was characterized after long cycling of PEO-1A and EP-PVDF as shown in FIGS. 12 and 13. Fig. 12 shows that after 1000 cycles, the EP-PVDF electrode delaminated from the Cu current collector and a large number of cracks appeared on the electrode surface. Fig. 13 shows that after 1000 cycles, the EP-SA/PEO-1A electrode remained tightly attached to the current collector with no cracks on the electrode surface. The results show that the SA/PEO-1 as binder electrode remains effectively intact during long cycling compared to conventional PVDF binders.
The foregoing is considered as illustrative and not restrictive in character, and that various modifications, equivalents, and improvements made within the spirit and principles of the invention are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.