The preparation method of lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate
Technical field
The present invention relates to the lithium ion battery negative material technical field, be specifically related to a kind of preparation method of lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate.
Background technology
Practical research work to lithium ion battery negative material in recent years launches round how to improve the quality specific storage and volume and capacity ratio, first charge-discharge efficiency, cycle performance and these several respects that reduce cost basically.The successful commercialization of graphite cathode material, but also have some weakness that are difficult to overcome.This is because the carbon negative pole can form passivation layer in organic electrolyte, though this layer can transmit electronics and lithium ion, can cause the irreversible loss of initial capacity; And the current potential of carbon dioxide process carbon electrode and metallic lithium are very approaching, and when battery overcharge, carbon electrodes is prone to the precipitating metal lithium, thereby may form Li dendrite and cause short circuit; Secondly, at high temperature, the protective layer on the carbon negative pole possibly decompose and cause battery to catch fire.Compare with carbon material, the structural changes of lithium titanate with spinel structure charge and discharge process is very little, a kind of zero strain material of being known as, thereby have good cyclical stability, well charge and discharge platform, theoretical specific capacity greatly and not with characteristic such as electrolytic solution reaction.Lithium titanate (Li
4Ti
5O
12) preparation method mainly comprises two kinds, i.e. high temperature solid-state method and sol-gel method.High temperature solid-state is with TiO
2With Li
2CO
3Or raw material such as LiOH 800 ℃~1000 ℃ synthetic down, the reaction times is generally 18~24h, the advantage of this method is that technology is simple, enlarges easily and produces, shortcoming is the bad control of the particle diameter of product, and is micron order mostly, lack of homogeneity; Sol-gel method generally is that employing titanium and lithium salts are precursor, adopts sol-gel technology to prepare lithium titanate through hydrolysis, and this method is compared with the conventional high-temperature solid phase method, and the product chemical purity is high, particle is thin, good uniformity.The present invention attempts to provide a kind of novel preparation to have the lithium titanate Li of spinel structure
4Ti
5O
12Hydrothermal synthesis method, hope that simultaneously this preparation method has actual application value at other field.
Summary of the invention
To the deficiency that prior art exists, technical problem to be solved by this invention is, provides that a kind of technology is simple, chemical purity is high, particle is thin, the preparation method of the lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate of good uniformity.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the technical scheme that the present invention taked is: a kind of preparation method of lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate may further comprise the steps:
(1), with Quilonum Retard or lithium hydroxide as the lithium source, be dispersed in the aqueous ethanolic solution, process the lithium dispersion liquid;
(2), according to the titanium source: the mol ratio in lithium source=7: 4~5: 4, take by weighing titanium source requirement, it is dissolved in the lithium dispersion liquid, carry out violent stirring then;
(3), solution is put in carries out hydro-thermal reaction in the reaction kettle, reaction naturally cools to room temperature after finishing, washing and filtering obtains Baise deposition then, and the white precipitate roasting in retort furnace that leaches is got the lithium titanate powder.
The preparation method of above-mentioned lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate, the concentration of volume percent of said aqueous ethanolic solution is 15%-19%.
The preparation method of above-mentioned lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate, said to carry out the violent stirring blended time be 2-4h.
The preparation method of above-mentioned lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate, the temperature of said hydro-thermal reaction are 120 ℃-180 ℃, reaction 8-14h;
The preparation method of above-mentioned lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate, said calcination process are meant that the heat-up rate with 5 ℃/min is warming up in 400 ℃-600 ℃ the scope roasting 6h-8h down from room temperature.
The preparing method's of lithium secondary battery cathode material nano-grade spinel type lithium titanate of the present invention advantage is: the present invention compares with the preparation method of existing lithium titanate; Reduced temperature of reaction; Shortened the reaction times; And preparation technology is simple; Easy handling, low in raw material cost is easy to get, and the product that obtains is even; Particle is less, and product performance are good.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is the SEM figure of lithium titanate with spinel structure;
Fig. 2 is the XRD figure of the lithium titanate of spinel structure;
Fig. 3 is the size distribution figure of lithium titanate with spinel structure;
Fig. 4 is the lithium titanate electrode cycle characteristics graphic representation of spinel structure;
Fig. 5 is the first charge-discharge graphic representation of the lithium titanate of spinel structure.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and specific embodiment the present invention is explained further details;
Embodiment 1:
(1) weighing 7.282g Quilonum Retard is dispersed in the 500mL aqueous ethanolic solution, and wherein the concentration of aqueous ethanolic solution is 15%, processes the lithium dispersion liquid.
(2) according to according to the titanium source: the mol ratio in lithium source=5: 4, take by weighing titanium source 101.4g, it is dissolved in (1) described lithium dispersion liquid, carry out violent stirring 2h then.
(3) solution is put in the reaction kettle, reacts 8h down at 120 ℃, reaction naturally cools to room temperature after finishing, and then the product washing and filtering is obtained Baise deposition.The white precipitate heat-up rate with 5 ℃/min in retort furnace that leaches is warming up to 400 ℃ of following roasting 6h from room temperature, and roasting gets the lithium titanate powder.
(4) powder is done the XRD analysis test, as shown in Figure 1, product is the lithium titanate material of single spinel structure.
Embodiment 2:
(1) weighing 7.282g lithium hydroxide is dispersed in the 500mL aqueous ethanolic solution, and wherein the concentration of aqueous ethanolic solution is 17%, processes the lithium dispersion liquid.
(2) according to according to the titanium source: the mol ratio in lithium source=6: 4, take by weighing titanium source 121.3g, it is dissolved in (1) described lithium dispersion liquid, carry out violent stirring 3h then.
(3) solution is put in the reaction kettle, reacts 11h down at 150 ℃, reaction naturally cools to room temperature after finishing, and then the product washing and filtering is obtained Baise deposition.The white precipitate heat-up rate with 5 ℃/min in retort furnace that leaches is warming up to 500 ℃ of following roasting 7h from room temperature, and roasting gets the lithium titanate powder.
(4) powder is done scanning electron microscope analysis, in conjunction with sreen analysis, the result shows that the median size of powder is 300nm, wherein in the Electronic Speculum picture bigger particle be the particle distance that leaves eyeglass too near due to.
Embodiment 3:
(1) weighing 7.282g lithium hydroxide is dispersed in the 500mL aqueous ethanolic solution, and wherein the concentration of aqueous ethanolic solution is 19%, processes the lithium dispersion liquid.
(2) according to according to the titanium source: the mol ratio in lithium source=7: 4, take by weighing titanium source 141.6g, it is dissolved in (1) described lithium dispersion liquid, carry out violent stirring 4h then.
(3) solution is put in the reaction kettle, reacts 14h down at 180 ℃, reaction naturally cools to room temperature after finishing, and then the product washing and filtering is obtained Baise deposition.The white precipitate heat-up rate with 5 ℃/min in retort furnace that leaches is warming up to 600 ℃ of following roasting 8h from room temperature, and roasting gets the lithium titanate powder.
(4) lithium manganate is done positive electrode material, lithium titanate is done negative material and is made button cell, the test chemical property, and loading capacity is 160mAh/g.
Certainly, above-mentioned explanation is not to be limitation of the present invention, and the present invention also is not limited to above-mentioned giving an example; Those skilled in the art; In essential scope of the present invention, the variation of making, remodeling, interpolation or replacement all should belong to protection scope of the present invention.