Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide a double-layer coating modified lithium ion battery anode material powder and a preparation method thereof. The double-layer coated modified lithium ion battery cathode material simultaneously shows high capacity, long cycle and high rate characteristics, has good conductivity, higher surface coverage rate and excellent chemical stability, and can effectively improve the cycle and rate performance of the cathode material.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a double-layer coating modified lithium ion battery anode material powder comprises an anode material substrate, a first coating layer coated on the surface of the anode material substrate and a second coating layer coated on the surface of the first coating layer; wherein the first coating layer is a carbon nanosphere coating layer; the second cladding layer is a metal oxide coating.
Preferably, the carbon nanosphere coating three-dimensional material adopts at least one of acetylene black, graphene and multi-wall fullerene. More preferably a multi-walled fullerene.
Preferably, the material of the metal oxide coating adopts at least one of aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, titanium oxide, magnesium oxide, tungsten oxide and zirconium oxide. More preferably at least one of alumina, zirconia and titania.
Preferably, the thickness of the carbon nanoball coating is 2-50 nm, and the particle size of the carbon nanoball is 5-100 nm. More preferably 8-20 nm.
Preferably, the thickness of the metal oxide coating is 2-50 nm. More preferably 5-30nm, most preferably 8-20 nm.
Preferably, the preparation method of the metal oxide coating includes, but is not limited to, any one method of vacuum evaporation deposition, magnetron sputtering deposition, pulsed laser deposition, chemical vapor deposition, metal organic chemical vapor deposition, molecular beam epitaxy deposition and atomic layer deposition.
Preferably, the carbon nanoball coating is prepared by a wet dispersion-sintering method.
Preferably, the metal oxide coating is prepared by a magnetron sputtering method.
Preferably, the molecular formula of the material of the cathode material matrix is Li1+xNiyCozMnsMnO2-rWherein x is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1, y is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1, z is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1, s is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1, and r is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.1.
In addition, preferably, the molecular formula of the material of the cathode material matrix is LiMn2-xMxO4Wherein x is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.5.
Also preferably, the molecular formula of the material of the cathode material matrix is LiFe1-xMxPO4Wherein x is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.
Preferably, the molecular formula of the material of the cathode material matrix is LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2、LiNi0.6Co0.2Mn0.2O2、LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2、LiFePO4、LiMn2O4At least one of (1). Most preferably LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2、LiNi0.6Co0.2Mn0.2O2、LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2One kind of (1).
The invention relates to a preparation method of double-layer coating modified lithium ion battery anode material powder, which comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: the mass ratio of the carbon nanospheres to the positive electrode material matrix is (0.1-5.0): dispersing 100 carbon nanospheres in absolute ethyl alcohol, adding the anode material powder, continuously stirring at the temperature of not less than 80 ℃ until the organic solvent is completely evaporated, finally putting the dried product into a muffle furnace, and sintering for 3-10 hours at the temperature of 200-450 ℃ in the air atmosphere to prepare the lithium ion battery anode material powder coated with the carbon nanosphere coating;
step two: placing the lithium ion battery anode material powder coated with the carbon nanosphere coating prepared in the step one in a magnetron sputtering coating device, enabling the lithium ion battery anode material powder to be in a motion state through a regularly vibrating sample disc, controlling the temperature to be 25-400 ℃ under the pressure condition that the air pressure is 0.1-5.0 Pa, and enabling the power density to be 1-6W/cm2And placing the mixture in an argon gas-oxygen volume ratio of (1-4): 1, coating a metal oxide coating on the surface of the anode material under the condition that the sputtering time is 5-15 min, and obtaining the double-layer coating modified lithium ion battery anode material powder.
Preferably, in the first step, the mass ratio of the carbon nanospheres to the cathode material substrate is (0.5-2.0): dispersing 100 carbon nanospheres in absolute ethyl alcohol, adding the anode material powder, continuously stirring at the temperature of not less than 80 ℃ until the organic solvent is completely evaporated, finally placing the dried product into a muffle furnace, and sintering for 5-8 hours at the temperature of 250-400 ℃ in the air atmosphere to prepare the lithium ion battery anode material powder coated with the carbon nanosphere coating. Effectively improving the bonding force of the carbon nanospheres and the aggregate.
Preferably, in the second step, the motion state is that the cathode material coated with the carbon nanoball moves by at least one of vibration, stirring, rotation and turning. The object is to keep the uncoated side of the material in the plasma, preferably vibrating.
Preferably, in the second step, the temperature is controlled to be 200-400 ℃ under the pressure condition that the air pressure is 0.5-2.0 Pa, and the power density is 2-5W/cm2And placing the mixture in an argon gas-oxygen volume ratio of (2-3): 1, coating a metal oxide coating on the surface of the anode material under the condition that the sputtering time is 8-12 min.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following obvious and prominent substantive characteristics and remarkable advantages:
1. according to the invention, the conductive carbon nanosphere coating and the metal oxide coating are coated on the surface of the anode material substrate in sequence through a two-step method, wherein the carbon nanosphere coating has good conductivity, and after coating, the conductivity of the composite coating can be integrally improved, electron transmission is promoted, and the rate capability of the material is improved; the metal oxide coating has stable chemical properties, can inhibit side reactions between the electrolyte and the surface of the matrix after coating, optimizes the interface electrochemical reaction environment and improves the cycle performance of the material;
2. the second layer of metal oxide coating is coated by using a magnetron sputtering method, so that the problem that the performance of the material is reduced due to the fact that transition metal elements in the ternary cathode material are easily reduced by a carbon material in the traditional process of preparing the metal oxide coating by high-temperature sintering is solved;
3. the double-coated coating prepared by the process method has good conductivity, higher surface coverage rate and excellent chemical stability, and can effectively improve the cycle and rate performance of the anode material.
Detailed Description
In order to facilitate an understanding of the invention, the invention will now be described more fully and in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments, but the scope of the invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described below.
Unless otherwise defined, all terms of art used hereinafter have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
Unless otherwise specifically stated, various raw materials, reagents, instruments, equipment and the like used in the present invention are commercially available or can be prepared by existing methods.
The above-described scheme is further illustrated below with reference to specific embodiments, which are detailed below:
example 1
In this embodiment, a double-layer coating modified lithium ion battery cathode material powder includes a cathode material substrate, a first coating layer coated on the surface of the cathode material substrate, and a second coating layer coated on the surface of the first coating layer; wherein the first coating layer is a carbon nanosphere coating layer; the second cladding layer is a metal oxide coating.
A preparation method of the double-layer coating layer modified lithium ion battery anode material powder comprises the steps of firstly, using a wet method-sintering process to obtain LiNi serving as a lithium ion battery anode material0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2The surface is coated with a multi-wall fullerene coating, and then a layer of aluminum oxide coating is coated by a radio frequency sputtering method to prepare the lithium ion battery anode material coated by the double-layer coating, and the specific implementation steps are as follows:
(1) weighing 0.05g of multi-wall fullerene, uniformly dispersing the multi-wall fullerene in 50mL of absolute ethyl alcohol, pouring 5g of anode material powder into the multi-wall fullerene, heating the absolute ethyl alcohol to 80 ℃, and continuously stirring to evaporate the absolute ethyl alcohol to obtain mixed powder;
(2) putting the mixed powder obtained in the step (1) into a muffle furnace, and sintering at 300 ℃ for 5h to prepare multi-wall fullerene coating-coated anode material powder;
(3) placing the positive electrode material powder coated by the multi-wall fullerene coating prepared in the step (2) on a sample table of a magnetron sputtering device, wherein the sample table has a vibration function and enables the material to be in a motion state; vacuumizing the sample cavity of the magnetron sputtering device until the vacuum in the cavity is less than 5.0 multiplied by 10-4Pa, setting the temperature of the cavity to 350 ℃; closing the baffle, introducing argon gas of 30sccm, carrying out pre-sputtering with the power of 100W, the pre-sputtering pressure of 0.8Pa and the pre-sputtering time of 20 min; opening a baffle plate, respectively introducing 10sccm oxygen and 25sccm argon, setting the deposition pressure to be 1Pa, opening a radio frequency power supply, and setting the power density to be 4W/cm2And sputtering for 10min, wherein the thickness of the metal oxide coating continuously deposited on the surface of the multi-wall fullerene coating is 10nm, and finally the double-layer coating coated modified lithium ion battery anode material powder is prepared.
Example 2
This embodiment is substantially the same as the first embodiment, and is characterized in that:
a preparation method of the double-layer coating layer modified lithium ion battery anode material powder comprises the steps of firstly, using a wet method-sintering process to obtain LiNi serving as a lithium ion battery anode material0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2The surface is coated with a multi-wall fullerene coating, and then a layer of zirconia coating is coated by a radio frequency sputtering method to prepare the lithium ion battery anode material powder coated by the double-layer coating, and the specific implementation steps are as follows:
(1) weighing 0.05g of multi-wall fullerene, uniformly dispersing the multi-wall fullerene in 50mL of absolute ethyl alcohol, pouring 5g of anode material powder into the multi-wall fullerene, heating the absolute ethyl alcohol to 80 ℃, and continuously stirring to evaporate the absolute ethyl alcohol to obtain mixed powder;
(2) putting the mixed powder obtained in the step (1) into a muffle furnace, and sintering at 300 ℃ for 5h to prepare multi-wall fullerene coating-coated anode material powder;
(3) placing the positive electrode material powder coated by the multi-wall fullerene coating prepared in the step (2)On a sample table of the magnetron sputtering device, the sample table has a vibration function, so that the powder is in a motion state; vacuumizing the sample cavity of the magnetron sputtering device until the vacuum in the cavity is less than 5.0 multiplied by 10-4Pa, setting the temperature of the cavity to be 400 ℃; closing the baffle, introducing argon gas of 30sccm, carrying out pre-sputtering with the power of 100W, the pre-sputtering pressure of 0.8Pa and the pre-sputtering time of 20 min; opening a baffle plate, respectively introducing 10sccm of oxygen and 40sccm of argon, setting the deposition pressure to be 1.3Pa, and opening a radio frequency power supply to set the power density to be 4W/cm2And sputtering for 10min, wherein the thickness of the metal oxide coating continuously deposited on the surface of the multi-wall fullerene coating is 10nm, and finally the double-layer coating coated modified lithium ion battery anode material powder is prepared.
Example 3
This embodiment is substantially the same as the previous embodiment, and is characterized in that:
a preparation method of the double-layer coating layer modified lithium ion battery anode material powder comprises the steps of firstly, using a wet method-sintering process to obtain LiNi serving as a lithium ion battery anode material0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2The surface is coated with a multi-wall fullerene coating, and then a layer of titanium oxide coating is coated by a radio frequency sputtering method to prepare the lithium ion battery anode material powder coated by the double-layer coating, wherein the specific implementation steps are as follows:
(1) weighing 0.05g of multi-wall fullerene, uniformly dispersing the multi-wall fullerene in 50ml of absolute ethyl alcohol, pouring 5g of anode material powder into the multi-wall fullerene, heating the absolute ethyl alcohol to 80 ℃, and continuously stirring to evaporate the absolute ethyl alcohol to obtain mixed powder;
(2) putting the mixed powder obtained in the step (1) into a muffle furnace, and sintering at 300 ℃ for 5h to prepare multi-wall fullerene coating-coated anode material powder;
(3) placing the positive electrode material powder coated by the multi-wall fullerene coating prepared in the step (2) on a sample table of a magnetron sputtering device, wherein the sample table has a vibration function so as to enable the material powder to be in a motion state; vacuumizing the sample cavity of the magnetron sputtering device until the vacuum in the cavity is less than 5.0 multiplied by 10-4Pa, setting the temperature of the cavity to be 400 ℃; the baffle is closed, and argon is introduced into the reactor at 30sccm, the pre-sputtering power is 100W, the pre-sputtering pressure is 0.8Pa, and the pre-sputtering time is 20 min; opening a baffle plate, respectively introducing 20sccm oxygen and 40sccm argon, setting the deposition pressure to be 1.4Pa, and opening a radio frequency power supply to set the power density to be 4W/cm2And sputtering for 10min, wherein the thickness of the metal oxide coating continuously deposited on the surface of the multi-wall fullerene coating is 10nm, and finally the double-layer coating coated modified lithium ion battery anode material powder is prepared.
Comparative example 1
Taking the ternary material LiNi in example 10.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2But without any coating treatment.
Comparative example 2
The preparation process of example 1 is repeated except that coating of the carbon nanoball coating is not performed:
(1) the uncoated positive electrode material LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2The sample table is placed on a sample table of a magnetron sputtering machine, and the sample table has a vibration function and can enable the powder to be in a motion state;
(2) vacuumizing until the vacuum in the cavity is less than 5.0 multiplied by 10-4Pa, setting the temperature of the cavity to 350 ℃; closing the baffle, introducing argon gas of 30sccm, carrying out pre-sputtering with the power of 100W, the pre-sputtering pressure of 0.8Pa and the pre-sputtering time of 20 min;
(3) opening a baffle plate, respectively introducing 10sccm oxygen and 25sccm argon, setting the deposition pressure to be 1Pa, opening a radio frequency power supply, and setting the power density to be 5W/cm2Sputtering for 10min, wherein the thickness of the deposited metal oxide coating is about 10nm, and finally the double-layer coating coated modified lithium ion battery anode material powder is prepared.
Electrical performance tests were performed on example 1 and comparative examples 1 and 2, wherein a lithium sheet was used as a negative electrode, positive electrode material powders prepared respectively were used as positive electrodes, a button cell was manufactured in an argon-filled glove box, and charging and discharging were performed at 0.1C and 1C in a voltage range of 2.75 to 4.3V, respectively, and the test results are shown in fig. 1 and 2.
As can be seen from the results of fig. 1, example 1 has the best capacity retention rate in the cycle test with the magnification of 1C, the capacity retention rate after 100 cycles is 79%, while comparative examples 1 and 2 are 43% and 65%, respectively, which shows that the double-layer coating treatment significantly improves the cycle performance of the cathode material;
from the results of fig. 2, it is seen that the specific discharge capacity of example 1 at 5C rate is 102mAh/g, while that of comparative examples 1 and 2 are 42mAh/g and 79mAh/g, respectively, in the rate performance test, and it is known that the rate performance of the double-layer coating-coated positive electrode material is the best.
XRD test was performed on example 1 and comparative examples 1 and 2, and the test results are shown in fig. 3.
As can be seen from the results of fig. 3, the XRD test results of example 1 and comparative examples 1 and 2 show that the positions of the diffraction peaks of the three groups of samples are kept consistent, and compared to comparative example 1, there is no new diffraction peak observable in both example 1 and comparative example 2, because the content of the metal oxide coating is too low.
Example 4
This embodiment is substantially the same as the previous embodiment, and is characterized in that:
a preparation method of the double-layer coating layer modified lithium ion battery anode material powder comprises the steps of firstly, using a wet method-sintering process to obtain LiNi serving as a lithium ion battery anode material0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2The surface is coated with a multi-wall fullerene coating, and then a layer of titanium oxide coating is coated by a radio frequency sputtering method to prepare the lithium ion battery anode material powder coated by the double-layer coating, wherein the specific implementation steps are as follows:
(1) weighing 0.1g of multi-wall fullerene, uniformly dispersing the multi-wall fullerene in 50ml of absolute ethyl alcohol, pouring 5g of anode material powder into the multi-wall fullerene, heating the absolute ethyl alcohol to 80 ℃, and continuously stirring to evaporate the absolute ethyl alcohol to obtain mixed powder;
(2) putting the mixed powder obtained in the step (1) into a muffle furnace, and sintering at 400 ℃ for 8h to prepare multi-wall fullerene coating-coated anode material powder;
(3) placing the positive electrode material powder coated by the multi-wall fullerene coating prepared in the step (2) on a sample table of a magnetron sputtering device, wherein the sample table has a vibration function so as to enable the material powder to be in a motion state; magnetic control sputteringVacuumizing the sample cavity of the injection device until the vacuum in the cavity is less than 5.0 multiplied by 10-4Pa, setting the temperature of the cavity to be 200 ℃; closing the baffle, introducing argon gas of 30sccm, carrying out pre-sputtering with the power of 100W, the pre-sputtering pressure of 0.8Pa and the pre-sputtering time of 20 min; opening a baffle plate, respectively introducing 20sccm oxygen and 40sccm argon, setting the deposition pressure to be 2.0Pa, and opening a radio frequency power supply to set the power density to be 5W/cm2And sputtering for 15min, wherein the thickness of the metal oxide coating continuously deposited on the surface of the multi-wall fullerene coating is 20nm, and finally the double-layer coating coated modified lithium ion battery anode material powder is prepared.
To sum up, in the above embodiment, the preparation method of the lithium ion battery cathode material powder coated with the double-layer coating layer includes that the substrate material is a nickel cobalt lithium manganate ternary cathode, the first coating layer is a conductive carbon nanosphere coating, and the second coating layer is a metal oxide coating. Wherein the first layer of carbon nanosphere coating is prepared by a wet dispersion-sintering method; the second layer of metal oxide coating is prepared by a magnetron sputtering method, and finally the carbon nanosphere/metal oxide double-layer coating is formed. The double-layer coating layer effectively solves the problem of poor conductivity of the single-layer metal oxide coating, and simultaneously prevents a small amount of HF in circulating electrolyte from corroding the anode material, so that the anode material coated by the double-layer coating layer has high rate capability, high specific capacity and good circulating performance; meanwhile, the method of the embodiment is simple, is easy to operate and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.
The embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various changes can be made according to the purpose of the invention, and any changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations or simplifications made according to the spirit and principle of the technical solution of the present invention should be replaced with equivalents as long as the object of the present invention is met, and the technical principle and the inventive concept of the present invention are not departed from the scope of the present invention.