Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems in the prior art, and provides a cathode current collector oil-based protective coating which improves the safety performance of a lithium ion battery cell while ensuring high energy density of the lithium ion battery cell.
The purpose of the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:
the oil-based protective coating of the cathode current collector is coated on the surface of the cathode current collector and comprises the following components in parts by weight:
9-12 parts of carbon nano tube
8-10 parts of polyimide ester.
According to the invention, the oil-based protective coating is arranged on the lithium ion battery cathode current collector, and then the cathode active material is coated on the protective coating, so that the energy density of the lithium ion battery is ensured, and the safety performance of the lithium ion battery is effectively improved. The protective coating has good bonding property, is not easy to fall off, can firmly cover the surface of the cathode current collector, and greatly reduces the probability of direct contact of the cathode current collector and the anode current collector. Meanwhile, the diaphragm resistance value of the cathode pole piece is improved, a large amount of joule heat generated when the short circuit occurs in the battery cell is prevented, and the risk of thermal runaway of the battery cell is reduced. The protective coating also improves the passing capability of safety performance tests such as needling and impacting.
The binder system adopts polyimide ester (PI) which has good bonding effect and excellent high temperature resistance and electrolyte corrosion resistance, and can be firmly attached to an aluminum foil after Baking at 135 ℃, so that the polyimide ester is prevented from being dissolved again by NMP in cathode slurry during coating.
The carbon nano tube is in line contact with the active material layer and the current collector layer, an effective conductive network can be formed in the protective coating by using less usage amount, and the conductive coating has good conductive performance.
Preferably, the diameter of the carbon nano tube is 8-20 nm, and the length-diameter ratio is (300-700): 1.
The invention can ensure the uniformity and stability of the prepared protective coating slurry and better coating performance while ensuring the conductivity by controlling the diameter and the length-diameter ratio of the carbon nano tube, thereby forming a uniform and smooth protective coating surface, having good bonding performance with a cathode active material, and being not easy to cause the phenomena of delamination, foaming and the like due to the difference of materials of each layer.
Preferably, the thickness of the protective coating is 1-2 μm.
According to the invention, the thickness of the protective coating is set to be 1-2 μm, and the protective coating is thinner, so that the electron transfer path can be reduced, the contact resistance between the aluminum foil of the cathode current collector and the cathode active material is reduced, and the direct current internal resistance (DCR) of the battery cell is reduced. The thickness of the protective coating cannot be too thick (> 2 μm) because the protective coating has no cathode active material and cannot provide energy, too thick a coating easily causes a large reduction in energy density (ED Loss), and too thick a protective coating reduces the adhesion of the protective coating to the aluminum foil and does not function to protect the aluminum foil. Too thick coating can also greatly increase the diaphragm resistance of the cathode pole piece, further influence the alternating current resistance (IMP) value of the battery core and influence the final electrical property of the lithium ion battery.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for preparing an oil-based protective coating of a cathode current collector, comprising the steps of:
s1, preparing raw materials according to the formula of the components in the claim 1, adding the polyimide ester into NMP, stirring uniformly to form a polyimide ester solution, adding the carbon nano tube, and stirring uniformly to form uniform and stable mixed slurry;
and S2, coating the slurry on the surface of the cathode current collector to form a protective coating.
The invention takes NMP as solvent, and a binder and conductive agent system to prepare uniform and stable slurry according to proportion, the slurry is coated on the cathode current collector of the lithium ion battery to form an oil-based protective coating, and then cathode active substances are coated on the protective coating, and the existence of the protective coating effectively improves the safety performance of the lithium ion battery.
Preferably, the solid content of the mixed slurry formed in the step S1 is 13-17%, and the viscosity is 300-800 mpa.s.
Preferably, the thickness of the protective coating formed in step S2 is 1 to 2 μm.
Preferably, in step S2, the slurry is applied to the surface of the cathode current collector by gravure printing.
Preferably, the gravure printing is carried out by using a gravure bouncing machine, and the tape-moving speed is 4.6-5.3 m/min.
Preferably, the gravure printing mode comprises a coating process and a drying process, wherein the drying process adopts a three-stage oven heating method, and the oven temperature is set to be 100 ℃, 105 ℃ and 100 ℃ in sequence.
The invention adopts a three-stage heating mode in the gravure printing process, optimizes the heating temperature of each stage, ensures that the protective coating is tightly attached to the cathode current collector, has a uniform and smooth surface and a compact internal structure, and does not generate the phenomenon of layer formation and foaming in the long-term use process. The heating temperature cannot be too high, otherwise, the protective coating is easy to layer, the electrical property of the cathode current collector is influenced, and the protective coating cannot play a good protection role.
The protective coating prepared by the method is uniform and smooth, the membrane resistance value of the cathode pole piece prepared by the method is 0.6-0.8 m omega measured by adopting a four-probe membrane resistance test method, and is slightly higher than that of the conventional cathode pole piece, so that the danger of thermal runaway when a cell is in short circuit is prevented, and the safety performance of the lithium ion battery is effectively improved while the high energy density of the lithium ion battery is ensured.
Because the anode active substance of the lithium ion battery can adopt a water-based or oil-based binder, and the PI adhesive is easy to agglomerate and lose efficacy when meeting water, when the anode active substance adopts the water-based binder, the protective coating is not suitable for an anode current collector.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
the specific protective layer is coated on the cathode current collector, so that the cell performance, particularly the energy density, of the lithium ion battery is ensured, and the safety performance of the cell is effectively improved.
Detailed Description
The following are specific examples of the present invention and further describe the technical solutions of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to these examples.
Example 1
The preparation method of the lithium ion battery cathode current collector oil-based protective coating in the embodiment comprises the following steps:
(1) adding 9 parts of polyimide ester into NMP (N-methyl pyrrolidone), uniformly stirring to form a polyimide ester solution, adding 10 parts of carbon nano tubes, uniformly stirring to form uniform and stable mixed slurry, wherein the solid content of the mixed slurry is 13%, the viscosity of the mixed slurry is 300mpa.s, the diameter of each carbon nano tube is 13-20 nm, and the length-diameter ratio is (580-700): 1;
(2) and coating the mixed slurry on the surface of the aluminum foil of the cathode current collector by using a gravure bouncing machine in a gravure printing mode to form a protective coating with the thickness of 1 mu m, wherein the tape travelling speed of the gravure bouncing machine is 4.6m/min, and after coating, drying is carried out by adopting a three-stage oven heating method, and the oven temperature is set to 100 ℃, 105 ℃ and 100 ℃ in sequence.
Example 2
The preparation method of the lithium ion battery cathode current collector oil-based protective coating in the embodiment comprises the following steps:
(1) adding 10 parts of polyimide ester into NMP (N-methyl pyrrolidone), uniformly stirring to form a polyimide ester solution, adding 9 parts of carbon nano tubes, uniformly stirring to form uniform and stable mixed slurry, wherein the solid content of the mixed slurry is 15%, the viscosity of the mixed slurry is 560mpa.s, the diameter of each carbon nano tube is 10-17 nm, and the length-diameter ratio of each carbon nano tube is (460-570): 1;
(2) and coating the mixed slurry on the surface of the cathode current collector aluminum foil by using a gravure bouncing machine in a gravure printing mode to form a protective coating with the thickness of 1.5 mu m, wherein the tape-moving speed of the gravure bouncing machine is 5.0m/min, and drying by adopting a three-stage oven heating method after coating, wherein the oven temperature is set to be 100 ℃, 105 ℃ and 100 ℃ in sequence.
Example 3
The preparation method of the lithium ion battery cathode current collector oil-based protective coating in the embodiment comprises the following steps:
(1) adding 12 parts of polyimide ester into NMP (N-methyl pyrrolidone), uniformly stirring to form a polyimide ester solution, adding 8 parts of carbon nano tubes, uniformly stirring to form uniform and stable mixed slurry, wherein the solid content of the mixed slurry is 17%, the viscosity of the mixed slurry is 800mpa.s, the diameter of each carbon nano tube is 8-15 nm, and the length-diameter ratio of the carbon nano tubes is (300-450): 1;
(2) and coating the mixed slurry on the surface of the aluminum foil of the cathode current collector by using a gravure bouncing machine in a gravure printing mode to form a protective coating with the thickness of 2 mu m, wherein the tape travelling speed of the gravure bouncing machine is 5.3m/min, and after coating, drying is carried out by adopting a three-stage oven heating method, and the oven temperature is set to be 100 ℃, 105 ℃ and 100 ℃ in sequence.
Comparative example 1
PVDF was used as a binder instead of the polyimide ester, and the other was the same as in example 2.
Comparative example 2
The aspect ratio of the carbon nanotubes was (750-800) 1, and the rest was the same as in example 2.
Comparative example 3
The thickness of the protective coating was 0.9 μm, and the rest was the same as in example 2.
Comparative example 4
The thickness of the protective coating was 2.1 μm, and the rest was the same as in example 2.
Example 5
The oven temperature was set to 105 deg.C, and 105 deg.C in this order.
Comparative example 6
No protective coating was provided.
The lithium ion batteries manufactured by using the cathode current collectors coated with the protective coatings in the embodiments 1 to 3 and the comparative examples 1 to 6 of the present invention were subjected to impact and needle punching safety tests, each sample of the impact tests was subjected to 10 tests, each sample of the needle punching tests was subjected to 5 tests, 2 samples of each embodiment/comparative example were selected for the tests, the average number of passes is shown in table 1, and the manufactured battery performance is shown in table 2 below.
Table 1: comparison of safety Performance of batteries fabricated using the cathode Current collectors of examples 1-3 and comparative examples 1-6
Table 2: comparison of Battery Performance Using the cathode Current collectors of examples 1-3 and comparative examples 1-6
Through performance tests, the lithium ion batteries of the embodiments 1 to 3 have the performance similar to that of the comparative example 6 in terms of capacity, energy density, cycle life and the like, and have no obvious change, and it can be seen that the protective coating is arranged on the surface of the cathode current collector of the lithium ion battery, and the formula and the preparation method of the protective coating are reasonably compatible and optimized, so that the electrical performance of the lithium ion battery is ensured, and the safety performance of the lithium ion battery is effectively improved.
The specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the spirit of the invention. Various modifications or additions may be made to the described embodiments or alternatives may be employed by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or ambit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.