Modified high-nickel ternary positive electrode material and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of electrode materials, and particularly relates to a modified high-nickel ternary positive electrode material and a preparation method thereof.
Background
The requirement of the power battery on high energy density promotes the development of high-nickel positive electrode materials, lithium-rich manganese-based positive electrode materials, lithium-sulfur batteries and the like, and the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material LiNi xCoyMn1-x-yO2 (NCM) has the advantages of high specific capacity, good multiplying power performance, relatively low cost and the like, is in an absolute leading position in various positive electrode materials, and is considered as one of the positive electrode materials of the power battery with the most application prospect.
However, the high-nickel ternary cathode material has the defects of poor circularity, thermal stability, safety and the like. The layered structure of the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material is changed into a rock salt structure in the processes of high-temperature synthesis, air storage and repeated charge and discharge, and the transition has an inhibiting effect on the transmission of lithium ions from the surface of the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material to the inside of the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material. In addition, during storage in air, the high nickel ternary cathode material reacts with moisture and carbon dioxide in air, thereby forming residual lithium compounds containing LiOH, liHCO 3, and Li 2CO3 on the surface thereof. These residual lithium compounds can have an adverse effect on the lithium ion battery, can cause the lithium ion battery to generate gas during the cycle process, and can also cause the slurry of the high nickel ternary positive electrode material to gel during the manufacturing process of the lithium ion battery.
Based on the problems existing in the high-nickel ternary cathode material, the development of a technology for effectively improving or overcoming the defects of the high-nickel ternary cathode material is of great significance, and is favorable for promoting the further development and utilization of the high-nickel ternary cathode material.
Disclosure of Invention
The present invention aims to solve at least one of the technical problems in the prior art described above. Therefore, the invention provides a modified high-nickel ternary positive electrode material and a preparation method thereof, wherein the material modification is realized by doping cobalt element and coating cobalt element, the doping of cobalt element is beneficial to improving the cycle performance of the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material, and the cobalt layer coated by using a microwave heating method can reduce the residual lithium content in the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material, so that the gas production problem in the battery cycle process is effectively solved. The preparation method is simple, low in cost and environment-friendly, and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.
In a first aspect of the invention, a high-nickel ternary cathode material is provided, wherein the ternary cathode material is a cobalt-doped and cobalt-coated high-nickel ternary cathode material.
According to the first aspect of the present invention, in some embodiments of the present invention, the mass fraction of the cobalt element doping in the high nickel ternary cathode material is 0.2-2%.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, in the high nickel ternary cathode material, the thickness of the cobalt element coating layer is 20nm to 200nm.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, in the high nickel ternary cathode material, the thickness of the cobalt element coating layer is 50nm to 100nm.
According to a second aspect of the invention, there is provided a preparation method of the high nickel ternary cathode material according to the first aspect of the invention, the preparation method comprising the following steps:
(1) Coating a cobalt-containing compound A on the surface of a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor Ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 to prepare a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with cobalt element;
(2) Mixing and calcining the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with the cobalt element coated on the surface in the step (1) and a lithium-containing compound to prepare a high-nickel ternary positive electrode material with the cobalt element doped on the surface;
(3) And (3) mixing the high-nickel ternary cathode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element in the step (2) with a cobalt-containing compound B, and performing microwave treatment to obtain the high-nickel ternary cathode material with the surface doped with the coated cobalt element LiNi xMnyCo1-x-yO2·nLiCoO2.
According to a second aspect of the invention, in some embodiments of the invention, 1.00> x.gtoreq.0.6, y >0,1-x-y >0 in the chemical formula Ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor described in step (1).
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor Ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 in step (1) is Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2.
In some preferred embodiments of the invention, the Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2 is available from guangdong bang circulating technologies, inc.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, in the chemical formula LiNi xMnyCo1-x-yO2·nLiCoO2 of the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material with the surface doped with the cladding cobalt element described in the step (3), 1.00> x is equal to or greater than 0.6, y >0,1-x-y >0, and n >0.
Among them, liCoO 2 exists in LiNi xMnyCo1-x-yO2 in a doped and coated form.
In some preferred embodiments of the invention, the specific steps in the step (1) are that a solution formed by dissolving the cobalt-containing compound A in water is placed in spraying equipment for standby, a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor Ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 is placed in mixing equipment with a heating function for stirring, and in the stirring process, the cobalt-containing compound A is coated on the surface of Ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 by using a spraying method, so that the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor coated with cobalt is prepared.
In some preferred embodiments of the invention, the stirring speed of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor Ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 is 200-800rpm.
In some preferred embodiments of the invention, ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 continues to be stirred after spraying is complete.
In some more preferred embodiments of the invention, the stirring is continued for a period of 30-300 minutes after the spraying is completed.
In some more preferred embodiments of the present invention, the spraying time of the spraying method is 5 to 120min.
In some more preferred embodiments of the present invention, the spraying time of the spraying method is 20 to 100 minutes.
In some more preferred embodiments of the present invention, the spraying time of the spraying method is 30 to 60 minutes.
In some more preferred embodiments of the present invention, the spraying flow rate of the spraying method is 3-6 mL/min.
In some more preferred embodiments of the present invention, the mass ratio of the cobalt-containing compound A to water is 1 (1-100).
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the cobalt-containing compound a in step (1) comprises at least one of cobalt chloride hexahydrate, cobalt nitrate hexahydrate, cobalt acetate tetrahydrate, cobalt sulfate heptahydrate.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the molar ratio of Ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 to cobalt element in the cobalt-containing compound a in the step (1) is 1 (0.002-0.02).
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the lithium-containing compound in step (2) comprises at least one of lithium hydroxide, lithium carbonate, lithium fluoride, lithium chloride, lithium nitrate.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the molar ratio of Ni xCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2 to lithium element in the lithium-containing compound in step (2) is 1 (1 to 1.2).
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the calcination temperature in step (2) is 700 to 1000 ℃.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the calcination time in step (2) is 10 to 20 hours.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the cobalt-containing compound B in step (3) includes at least one of cobalt oxide, tricobalt tetraoxide, cobalt oxyhydroxide, cobalt hydroxide, cobaltosic oxide, cobalt carbonate, cobalt acetate, cobalt oxalate.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the molar ratio of the high nickel ternary positive electrode material doped with cobalt element on the surface in the step (3) to cobalt element of the cobalt-containing compound B is 1 (0.002-0.02).
In some preferred embodiments of the invention, the power of the microwave treatment described in step (3) is in the range 1000W to 1800W.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the temperature of the microwave treatment in step (3) is 200 to 400 ℃.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the time of the microwave treatment in the step (3) is 10 to 120min.
In a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a positive electrode sheet, wherein the active material in the positive electrode sheet is the high nickel ternary positive electrode material in the first aspect of the present invention.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in some embodiments of the present invention, the positive electrode sheet further includes a conductive agent and a binder.
In some preferred embodiments of the present invention, the mass ratio of the active material, the conductive agent, and the binder in the positive electrode sheet is 90:5:5.
In some preferred embodiments of the invention, the positive plate is prepared by dispersing active substances, conductive agents and binders in N-methylpyrrolidone, stirring for 4 hours, coating the mixture on the surface of aluminum foil, and vacuum drying at 120 ℃ to obtain the positive plate.
In a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a lithium ion battery assembled using the positive electrode sheet according to the third aspect of the present invention.
According to the fourth aspect of the invention, in some embodiments of the invention, the method for assembling the lithium ion battery comprises the steps of taking the positive plate according to the third aspect of the invention as a positive electrode of the lithium ion battery, taking metal lithium as a counter electrode of the lithium ion battery, and assembling the button cell in a glove box filled with high-purity argon.
In some preferred embodiments of the invention, the button cell is a lithium ion battery of CR2032 type.
The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:
1. According to the invention, the precursor of the high-nickel ternary cathode material is coated by adopting a spray coating method, the formed coating layer is more uniform, the coated precursor is sintered with the lithium-containing compound to prepare the high-nickel ternary cathode material with the cobalt doped on the surface, and the high-nickel ternary cathode material with the cobalt doped on the surface is coated by adopting a microwave heating method. The preparation method is simple, low in cost and environment-friendly, and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.
2. The cobalt element in the cobalt element doped and cobalt element coated high-nickel ternary positive electrode material prepared by the method is distributed at different depths, so that a protective layer is formed on the surface of the positive electrode material, the lithium nickel mixed discharge phenomenon in the positive electrode material in the battery cycle process can be inhibited, and the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material has excellent cycle performance.
3. According to the invention, the cobalt element doped on the surface layer of the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material is beneficial to improving the cycle performance of the positive electrode material, and the cobalt element coated on the surface layer of the positive electrode material can react with the residual lithium on the surface of the positive electrode material when being coated by microwave heating, so that the content of the residual lithium on the surface of the positive electrode material is reduced, and the gas production problem in the battery cycle process can be effectively solved. Under the combined action of surface doping and surface cladding of cobalt element, the electrochemical performance of the high-nickel ternary anode material is obviously improved.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is an SEM image of a high nickel ternary cathode material prepared in example 1 of the invention;
FIG. 2 is an XRD pattern of the product of microwave heating of a mixture of cobalt hydroxide, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate;
fig. 3 is a graph showing the change of the capacity retention rate of the lithium ion battery assembled by the high nickel ternary cathode material in examples 1 to 3 and comparative examples 1 to 3 with the number of cycles.
Detailed Description
The invention will be further described with reference to specific embodiments, and advantages and features of the invention will become apparent from the description. These examples are merely exemplary and do not limit the scope of the invention in any way. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and substitutions of details and forms of the technical solution of the present invention may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, but these changes and substitutions fall within the scope of the present invention.
Example 1 preparation of modified high Nickel ternary cathode Material
(1) Preparing a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with a cobalt element coated on the surface:
45.82g of cobalt chloride hexahydrate was dissolved in 120mL of deionized water to prepare an aqueous cobalt chloride solution, and the aqueous cobalt chloride solution was placed in a spraying apparatus. 1111.7g of Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2, a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor, is placed in a high-efficiency mixer with a heating function for stirring, the heating temperature is 150 ℃, and the stirring speed is 600rpm. Spraying by using spraying equipment filled with cobalt chloride aqueous solution in the process of stirring the precursor at a high speed, controlling the spraying time to be 30min, controlling the spraying flow to be 4mL/min, and continuously stirring the solution for 120min by using a high-efficiency mixer with a heating function after the spraying is finished until Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2 is sufficiently dried to prepare the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with cobalt element;
(2) Preparing a high-nickel ternary positive electrode material with a cobalt element doped on the surface:
Placing 1kg of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with the cobalt element prepared in the step (1) and 462g of lithium hydroxide into a ball mill for ball milling and mixing, wherein the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, and then calcining at 800 ℃ for 15 hours to prepare the high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element;
(3) Preparing the high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element:
975.6g of the high-nickel ternary cathode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element obtained in the step (2) and 13.95g of cobalt hydroxide are placed in a ball mill for ball milling and mixing, the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, then the high-nickel ternary cathode material is subjected to microwave treatment in a high-power microwave oven, the power of the microwave treatment is 1600W, the temperature of the microwave treatment is 300 ℃, and the microwave treatment time is 60 minutes. The high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element is prepared, and the chemical formula of the high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element is LiNi 0.936Co0.044Mn0.02O2·0.015LiCoO2.
Example 2 preparation of modified high Nickel ternary cathode Material
(1) Preparing a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with a cobalt element coated on the surface:
34.92g of cobalt nitrate was dissolved in 120mL of deionized water to prepare an aqueous cobalt nitrate solution, which was placed in a spraying apparatus. 1111.7g of Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2, a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor, is placed in a high-efficiency mixer with a heating function for stirring, the heating temperature is 150 ℃, and the stirring speed is 600rpm. Spraying by using spraying equipment filled with cobalt nitrate aqueous solution in the process of stirring the precursor at a high speed, controlling the spraying time to be 30min, controlling the spraying flow to be 4mL/min, and continuously stirring the solution for 120min by using a high-efficiency mixer with a heating function after the spraying is finished until the precursor is sufficiently dried, so as to prepare the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with cobalt element;
(2) Preparing a high-nickel ternary positive electrode material with a cobalt element doped on the surface:
Placing 1kg of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with the cobalt element prepared in the step (1) and 462g of lithium hydroxide into a ball mill for ball milling and mixing, wherein the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, and then calcining at 800 ℃ for 15 hours to prepare the high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element;
(3) Preparing the high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element:
975.6g of the high-nickel ternary cathode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element obtained in the step (2) and 9.30g of cobalt hydroxide are placed in a ball mill for ball milling and mixing, the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, then the mixture is heated in a high-power microwave oven by microwaves, the power of the microwave heating is 1600W, the temperature of the microwave heating is 300 ℃, and the time of the microwave heating is 60 minutes. The high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element is prepared, and the chemical formula of the high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element is LiNi 0.94Co0.04Mn0.02O2·0.01LiCoO2.
Example 3 preparation of modified high Nickel ternary cathode Material
(1) Preparing a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with a cobalt element coated on the surface:
84.65g of cobalt acetate tetrahydrate was dissolved in 120mL of deionized water to prepare an aqueous cobalt acetate solution, and the aqueous cobalt acetate solution was placed in a spraying apparatus. 1kg of Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2, a precursor of nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide, is placed in a high-efficiency mixer with a heating function for stirring, the heating temperature is 150 ℃, and the stirring speed is 600rpm. Spraying by using spraying equipment filled with cobalt acetate aqueous solution in the process of stirring the precursor at a high speed, controlling the spraying time to be 30min, controlling the spraying flow to be 4mL/min, and continuously stirring the solution for 120min by using a high-efficiency mixer with a heating function after the spraying is finished until the precursor is sufficiently dried, so as to prepare the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with cobalt element;
(2) Preparing a high-nickel ternary positive electrode material with a cobalt-containing element doped on the surface:
Ball-milling and mixing 1kg of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with the cobalt element prepared in the step (1) with 462g of lithium hydroxide, wherein the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, and then calcining at 800 ℃ for 15 hours to prepare the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element;
(3) Preparing the high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element:
Mixing 1kg of the high-nickel ternary cathode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element prepared in the step (2) with 4.65g of cobalt hydroxide through ball milling, wherein the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, and then heating the mixture in a high-power microwave oven with the microwave heating power of 1600W, the microwave heating temperature of 300 ℃ and the microwave heating time of 60 minutes. The high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element is prepared, and the chemical formula of the high-nickel ternary anode material with the surface doped with the coating cobalt element is LiNi 0.945Co0.035Mn0.02O2·0.005LiCoO2.
Comparative example 1
Compared with the example 1, the difference is that the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material prepared in the comparative example 1 is not coated with cobalt element or doped with cobalt element, and the specific steps are as follows:
And (3) ball-milling and mixing 1kg of Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2 which is a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with 462g of lithium hydroxide, wherein the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, and then calcining at 800 ℃ for 15 hours to prepare the high-nickel ternary cathode material LiNi 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02O2.
Comparative example 2
Comparative example 2 is different from example 1 in that the high nickel ternary cathode material prepared in comparative example 2 is only coated with cobalt element, and is not doped with cobalt element, and the specific steps are as follows:
(1) And (3) ball-milling and mixing 1kg of Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2 which is a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with 462g of lithium hydroxide, wherein the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, and then calcining at 800 ℃ for 15 hours to prepare the high-nickel ternary anode material.
(2) 975.6G of the high-nickel ternary cathode material obtained in the step (1) and 13.95g of cobalt hydroxide are mixed through ball milling, the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, then the mixture is heated in a high-power microwave oven with the microwave heating power of 1600W, the microwave heating temperature is 300 ℃, and the microwave heating time is 60 minutes. And (3) preparing the high-nickel ternary cathode material LiNi 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02O2 with the surface coated with the cobalt element.
Comparative example 3
Comparative example 3 is different from example 1 in that the high nickel ternary cathode material prepared in comparative example 3 is only a cobalt-doped high nickel ternary cathode material, and is not cobalt-coated, and the steps of the bulk are:
(1) 45.82g of cobalt chloride hexahydrate was dissolved in 120mL of deionized water to prepare an aqueous cobalt chloride solution, and the aqueous cobalt chloride solution was placed in a spraying apparatus. 1111.7g of Ni 0.95Co0.03Mn0.02(OH)2, a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor, is placed in a high-efficiency mixer with a heating function for stirring, the heating temperature is 150 ℃, and the stirring speed is 600rpm. Spraying by using spraying equipment filled with cobalt chloride aqueous solution in the process of stirring the precursor at a high speed, controlling the spraying time to be 30min, controlling the spraying flow to be 4mL/min, and continuously stirring the solution for 120min by using a high-efficiency mixer with a heating function after the spraying is finished until the precursor is sufficiently dried to obtain a nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with cobalt element;
(2) And (3) ball-milling and mixing 1kg of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor with the surface coated with the cobalt element prepared in the step (1) with 462g of lithium hydroxide, wherein the ball milling speed is 500rpm, the ball milling time is 4 hours, and then calcining at 800 ℃ for 15 hours to prepare the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element, and the chemical formula of the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material with the surface doped with the cobalt element is LiNi 0.936Co0.044Mn0.02O2·0.015LiCoO2.
Characterization and performance test of modified high-nickel ternary cathode material
(1) Morphology characterization:
Fig. 1 is an SEM image of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in example 1, and it can be seen from the image that the particle surface of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material has micro powder distribution (such as the circled part in fig. 1), which is a substance formed after cobalt hydroxide reacts with residual lithium on the surface of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material under the condition of microwave heating.
(2) Testing of residual lithium content in high nickel ternary cathode material:
Dispersing the high-nickel ternary cathode material in deionized water, stirring for 30 minutes, filtering by a vacuum filtration device, collecting filtrate, weighing, placing the filtrate in a potentiometric titrator, performing potentiometric titration by using hydrochloric acid labeling solution with the concentration of 0.1mol/L until the pH value is less than or equal to 4, and recording the consumption volume of hydrochloric acid at a mutation point in a titration curve. And then processing the data according to a conventional method in the field, and calculating to obtain the residual lithium content in the high-nickel ternary cathode material.
The test results of the residual lithium contents in the high nickel ternary cathode materials prepared in examples 1 to 3 and comparative examples 1 to 3 are shown in table 1, and it can be seen from the data in table 1 that the residual lithium contents in examples 1 to 3 are lower than those in comparative examples 1 to 3, because cobalt hydroxide reacts with the residual lithium (composed of lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate) on the surface of the material when the microwave coats cobalt element, and lithium cobaltate is generated, thereby reducing the residual lithium content on the surface of the material. Fig. 2 is an XRD pattern of a product of microwave heating of a mixture of cobalt hydroxide, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate, wherein the molar ratio of cobalt hydroxide, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate is 2:1:1, and it can be seen from fig. 2 that peaks in the XRD pattern are characteristic peaks of LiCoO 2, which further illustrates that in the microwave heating process of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in the embodiment of the invention, cobalt hydroxide reacts with residual lithium consisting of lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate, thereby generating LiCoO 2.
Table 1 statistics of residual lithium content in the high nickel ternary cathode materials prepared in examples 1 to 3 and comparative examples 1 to 3
Sample of |
Residual lithium content (%) |
Example 1 |
0.1782 |
Example 2 |
0.1945 |
Example 3 |
0.2069 |
Comparative example 1 |
0.2744 |
Comparative example 2 |
0.2146 |
Comparative example 3 |
0.2698 |
(3) Electrochemical performance test
And (3) assembling the lithium ion battery, namely mixing a conductive agent and a binder according to a certain proportion, adding the mixture into 1-methyl 2-pyrrolidone, fully stirring in a vacuum stirrer, adding the positive electrode material in the embodiment or the comparative example (wherein the mass ratio of the positive electrode material to the binder to the conductive agent is 90:5:5), fully stirring uniformly to obtain the slurry of the electrode material, coating the slurry on an aluminum foil, and drying and grinding to obtain the positive electrode sheet, wherein the surface density of the positive electrode sheet in the embodiment is 3.7g/cm 2. The obtained positive plate is used as a positive electrode, metal lithium is used as a counter electrode, and the CR2032 type lithium ion button cell is assembled for testing electrochemical performance. Wherein the electrolyte is E20, purchased from Shenzhen New SappaTechno Co., ltd.
The electrochemical performance test of the lithium ion battery comprises the steps that the test equipment is a blue battery test system, the voltage window is 2.8V-4.3V, the current density is 1C, and the test temperature is normal temperature.
Fig. 3 shows the change of the capacity retention rate with the number of cycles of the lithium ion batteries assembled by using the positive electrode materials of examples 1 to 3 and comparative examples 1 to 3, and it can be seen from the data in fig. 3 that the capacity retention rate of the lithium ion batteries assembled by using the positive electrode materials of examples 1 to 3 is slower with the decreasing rate of the number of cycles and has a higher capacity retention rate than that of comparative examples 1 to 3. The method shows that the cycle performance of the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material is further improved by simultaneously carrying out cobalt element doping and cobalt element cladding on the high-nickel ternary positive electrode material, and the electrochemical performance of the lithium ion battery assembled by the positive electrode material is superior to that of a lithium ion battery assembled by a pure cobalt element doping or cobalt element cladding positive electrode material. In addition, the capacity retention rate of the lithium ion batteries assembled with the cathode materials of comparative examples 2 and 3 is slower than that of the lithium ion battery assembled with the cathode material of comparative example 1, which indicates that the single coating or doping of the high-nickel ternary cathode material with cobalt element can improve the cycle performance of the high-nickel ternary cathode material.
Table 2 shows electrochemical properties of lithium ion batteries assembled with the high nickel ternary cathode materials prepared in examples 1 to 3 and comparative examples 1 to 3, and table 2 includes a specific first-week discharge capacity, a first-week efficiency, and a capacity retention rate of 100 cycles. As can be seen from table 2, the lithium ion battery prepared from the high-nickel ternary cathode material in examples 1-3 has higher first-cycle discharge specific capacity and first-cycle efficiency than the lithium ion battery assembled from the high-nickel ternary cathode material in comparative examples 1-3, and the 100-cycle capacity retention rate of the lithium ion battery assembled from the high-nickel ternary cathode material in examples 1-3 is significantly higher than that of the lithium ion battery assembled from the high-nickel ternary cathode material in comparative examples 1-3, which indicates that the cobalt element doping and cobalt element coating of the high-nickel ternary cathode material by the method in the examples of the invention can significantly improve the cycle performance and cycle life of the high-nickel ternary cathode material.
Table 2 electrochemical Properties of the high Nickel ternary cathode materials prepared in examples 1 to 3 and comparative examples 1 to 3
Sample of |
Specific discharge capacity at first week (mAh/g) |
First week efficiency (%) |
Capacity retention of 100 cycles (%) |
Example 1 |
229.8 |
92.7 |
83.74 |
Example 2 |
228.9 |
92.0 |
81.53 |
Example 3 |
227.3 |
92.1 |
80.31 |
Comparative example 1 |
226.8 |
90.9 |
69.38 |
Comparative example 2 |
226.7 |
91.7 |
78.55 |
Comparative example 3 |
226.9 |
91.0 |
74.55 |
The above examples are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the above examples, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications that do not depart from the spirit and principle of the present invention should be made in the equivalent manner, and the embodiments are included in the protection scope of the present invention.