Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a diaphragm and a laminating process using the diaphragm, aiming at overcoming the problems of poor flatness of a cell structure and poor wettability of an interface electrolyte of a lithium battery in the prior art.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a membrane having an electrostatic charge of 800-.
When the static electricity carried by the diaphragm is smaller than the range, the composite connection of the diaphragm and the pole piece cannot be effectively realized; when the static electricity carried by the diaphragm is larger than the range, dust in the air is easily adsorbed, so that the pollution of the battery core is caused, on one hand, the final yield of the battery is influenced, and on the other hand, the adsorbed dust exists in the battery core as impurities, so that the performance of the battery is deteriorated.
Preferably, the separator includes one of a PE separator, a PP separator, a multilayer separator in which PE and PP are arbitrarily combined, a non-woven fabric separator, and a coating separator.
Preferably, the substrate of the nonwoven fabric separator includes at least one of PI, PA, PVDF-HFP, PAN, cellulose, PE, PP, and the like.
Preferably, the coating layer of the coating separator includes at least one of ceramic particles, aramid, PVDF-HFP, PAN, PVA, PMMA, and derivatives thereof.
Preferably, the ceramic particles comprise at least one of alumina, boehmite, barium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, and silica.
The above is a conventional separator used at present, and the method is applicable to all separators used in lithium batteries at present.
The preparation method of the diaphragm comprises the following preparation steps: spraying absolute ethyl alcohol on the diaphragm before lamination; and then carrying out corona treatment and drying to obtain the electrostatic diaphragm.
After the membrane treated by the absolute ethyl alcohol is subjected to corona treatment, the electrostatic charge of the membrane can be controlled to be 800-3000V, and the membrane cannot be too large, so that the problem that the yield of the battery and the final battery performance such as self-discharge and circulation stability are influenced because a large amount of dust is adsorbed by the membrane in the use process due to the too large electrostatic charge can be avoided; meanwhile, the method is beneficial to enhancing the bonding performance between the diaphragm and the negative electrode, ensuring the smooth proceeding of the lamination process and reducing the cost rate of the battery, because the hydrophilicity of the surface of the diaphragm is obviously increased if the plasma treatment is independently utilized, and because the graphite negative electrode is made of a hydrophobic material and is not well bonded with the surface of the diaphragm with high hydrophilicity, the interface bonding performance between the diaphragm and the negative electrode plate is poor. In addition, the membrane treated by the absolute ethyl alcohol is treated by the plasma, so that the damage of the plasma to the mechanical strength of the membrane can be reduced, the mechanical strength of the membrane after treatment is prevented from being reduced, and the safety performance of the battery is ensured. The principle of the corona treatment is to destroy the molecular structure of the polymer on the surface of the diaphragm, thereby causing damage to the mechanical strength of the diaphragm to a certain extent. The absolute ethyl alcohol on the surface can react with plasma in the corona process to generate oxidation or polarization, so that the excessive damage of the plasma to the molecular structure on the surface of the diaphragm is reduced, and the excessive damage to the mechanical strength of the diaphragm is avoided.
Preferably, the condition of the corona treatment is 1 to 1.7 kV.
The preparation method of the diaphragm comprises the following preparation steps: and placing the diaphragm in an environment with the dew point of-60 to-40 ℃ for 72 to 120 hours to prepare the electrostatic diaphragm.
The principle is similar to that in dry weather, static electricity is easily generated when people wear sweaters, the diaphragm is made of non-conductive polymer materials, the moisture content of the diaphragm is reduced continuously when the diaphragm is placed in an environment with a low dew point, accumulated charges can be transferred and transferred by taking water as a medium when the diaphragm is placed in an environment with a certain moisture content, and the charges are accumulated on the surface of the diaphragm and cannot be transferred or transferred to form static electricity when the diaphragm is placed in an extremely low moisture content state.
The lamination process of the diaphragm comprises the following steps:
1) preparing a first unit: placing the positive pole pieces above the diaphragm at equal intervals, performing adsorption connection through electrostatic action, and cutting to form a first unit;
2) preparing a second unit: meanwhile, the negative pole pieces are arranged above the second diaphragm at equal intervals, are connected through electrostatic action and are cut to form a second unit;
3) preparing an electric core: and stacking the first unit and the second unit in sequence to obtain the battery cell structure.
The lamination process method can avoid the formation of small units through a hot pressing mode, greatly improve the infiltration performance of the battery core, shorten the infiltration time and improve the production efficiency of the battery core, and can reduce the internal stress between the diaphragm and the pole piece by separately preparing the units of the anode and the diaphragm and the units of the cathode and the diaphragm, thereby being beneficial to avoiding the unevenness and deformation of the battery core caused by the overlarge internal stress of the small units and difficult release.
Preferably, the equidistant distance is 5-20 mm.
Therefore, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
(1) the invention adopts a diaphragm with stronger static electricity, the diaphragm and an anode (a first unit) and the diaphragm and a cathode (a second unit) are respectively connected together through the electrostatic adsorption effect of the diaphragm, and then the first unit and the second unit are sequentially stacked to form a cell structure;
(2) the invention avoids forming small units by hot pressing, can greatly improve the infiltration performance of the battery cell, shorten the infiltration time and improve the production efficiency of the battery cell;
(3) the electrostatic adsorption can not cause larger internal stress between the diaphragm and the pole piece, and the unit of the anode and the diaphragm and the unit of the cathode and the diaphragm are separately prepared, so that the unevenness and the deformation of the battery cell caused by the large internal stress can be avoided, the reduction of the structural performance of the battery cell is promoted, the battery cell has better electrochemical performance, the preparation process is simple, and the high-quality yield is high.
Detailed Description
The invention is further described with reference to specific embodiments.
Example 1
A membrane having an electrostatic charge of 800V during use of the stack.
The membrane comprises a PE nonwoven membrane.
The preparation method of the diaphragm comprises the following preparation steps: placing the diaphragm in an isolation cavity before lamination and spraying absolute ethyl alcohol; and then carrying out corona treatment on the 1kV plasma, and drying to obtain the membrane with static electricity.
The lamination process of the diaphragm comprises the following steps:
1) preparing a first unit: placing the positive pole pieces above the diaphragm at equal intervals of 5mm, performing adsorption connection through electrostatic action, and cutting to form a first unit;
2) preparing a second unit: meanwhile, the negative pole pieces are arranged above the second diaphragm at equal intervals of 5mm, and are connected through electrostatic action, and a second unit is formed after slitting;
3) preparing an electric core: and stacking the first unit and the second unit in sequence to obtain the battery cell structure.
Example 2
A membrane having an electrostatic magnitude of 1500V when the stack is in use.
The diaphragm is a PE diaphragm.
The preparation method of the diaphragm comprises the following preparation steps: placing the diaphragm in an isolation cavity before lamination and spraying absolute ethyl alcohol; and then carrying out corona treatment on the 1.4kV plasma, and drying to obtain the membrane with static electricity.
The lamination process of the diaphragm comprises the following steps:
1) preparing a first unit: placing the positive pole pieces above the diaphragm at equal intervals of 8mm, performing adsorption connection through electrostatic action, and cutting to form a first unit;
2) preparing a second unit: meanwhile, the negative pole pieces are arranged above the second diaphragm at equal intervals of 8mm, and are connected through electrostatic action, and a second unit is formed after slitting;
3) preparing an electric core: and stacking the first unit and the second unit in sequence to obtain the battery cell structure.
Example 3
A membrane having an electrostatic charge of 1800V when the membrane is in use in a stack.
The diaphragm is a PP diaphragm.
The preparation method of the diaphragm comprises the following preparation steps: placing the diaphragm in an isolation cavity before lamination and spraying absolute ethyl alcohol; and then carrying out corona treatment on the 1.7kV plasma, and drying to obtain the membrane with static electricity.
The lamination process of the diaphragm comprises the following steps:
1) preparing a first unit: placing the positive pole pieces above the diaphragm at equal intervals of 10mm, performing adsorption connection through electrostatic action, and cutting to form a first unit;
2) preparing a second unit: meanwhile, the negative pole pieces are arranged above the second diaphragm at equal intervals of 10mm, are connected through electrostatic action and are cut to form a second unit;
3) preparing an electric core: and stacking the first unit and the second unit in sequence to obtain the battery cell structure.
Example 4
A membrane having an electrostatic magnitude of 2000V when the membrane is in use.
The membrane is a PVDF membrane.
The preparation method of the diaphragm comprises the following preparation steps: and (3) placing the diaphragm in an environment with a dew point of-60 ℃ for 72 hours to prepare the electrostatic diaphragm.
The lamination process of the diaphragm comprises the following steps:
1) preparing a first unit: placing the positive pole piece above the diaphragm at an equal interval of 14mm, performing adsorption connection through electrostatic action, and cutting to form a first unit;
2) preparing a second unit: meanwhile, the negative pole pieces are arranged above the second diaphragm at equal intervals of 14mm, and are connected through electrostatic action, and a second unit is formed after slitting;
3) preparing an electric core: and stacking the first unit and the second unit in sequence to obtain the battery cell structure.
Example 5
A membrane having a static charge of 2500V when the stack is in use.
The membrane is a PVDF-HFP membrane.
The preparation method of the diaphragm comprises the following preparation steps: and (3) placing the diaphragm in an environment with a dew point of-50 ℃ for 95h to prepare the electrostatic diaphragm.
The lamination process of the diaphragm comprises the following steps:
1) preparing a first unit: placing the positive pole piece above the diaphragm at equal intervals of 18mm, performing adsorption connection through electrostatic action, and cutting to form a first unit;
2) preparing a second unit: meanwhile, the negative pole pieces are arranged above the second diaphragm at equal intervals of 18mm, are connected through electrostatic action and are cut to form a second unit;
3) preparing an electric core: and stacking the first unit and the second unit in sequence to obtain the battery cell structure.
Example 6
A membrane having an electrostatic charge of 3000V when the stack is in use.
The diaphragm is coated with an aluminum oxide diaphragm.
The preparation method of the diaphragm comprises the following preparation steps: and (3) placing the diaphragm in an environment with a dew point of-40 ℃ for 120h to prepare the electrostatic diaphragm.
The lamination process of the diaphragm comprises the following steps:
1) preparing a first unit: placing the positive pole pieces above the diaphragm at equal intervals of 20mm, performing adsorption connection through electrostatic action, and cutting to form a first unit;
2) preparing a second unit: meanwhile, the negative pole pieces are arranged above the second diaphragm at equal intervals of 20mm, are connected through electrostatic action and are cut to form a second unit;
3) preparing an electric core: and stacking the first unit and the second unit in sequence to obtain the battery cell structure.
Comparative example 1
The difference from example 2 is that the magnitude of the static electricity charged to the separator was 500V.
Comparative example 2
The difference from example 2 is that the membrane was prepared without spraying with absolute ethanol.
Comparative example 3
The difference from example 2 is that hot pressing is used instead of electrostatic adsorption stacking.
Comparative example 4
The difference from example 5 is that the dew point resting temperature is too low at-70 ℃.
Comparative example 5
The difference from example 5 is that the dew point resting time was too short, 60 h.
Comparative example 6
The difference from example 5 is that the magnitude of static electricity charged to the separator was 3500V.
The results of the tests on the finished products obtained in examples 1 to 6 and comparative examples 1 to 6 are shown in Table 1.
The positive electrode of the batteries in the examples and comparative examples was the ternary material NMC811, the negative electrode was graphite, and the theoretical capacity was 58(1/3C) Ah.
TABLE 1 relevant Performance indices of the finished products in the examples and comparative examples
Conclusion analysis:
the lithium battery cell structure with excellent performance can be prepared in the embodiments 1-6, and the structure has good wettability and good smoothness, so that the material has good electrochemical performance and long service life.
For the relevant data of comparative examples 1 to 6, comparative example 1 in comparative example 1 is different from example 2 in that the magnitude of static electricity charged to the separator is 500V, the yield is extremely low, only 5%, and the cause of performance degradation is analyzed: the diaphragm and the pole piece can not be effectively compounded, and the binding force between the diaphragm and the pole piece is poor, so that the yield is extremely low;
the difference between the comparative example 2 and the example 2 is that the preparation process of the diaphragm does not adopt absolute ethyl alcohol spraying, the yield is obviously reduced, the performance is reduced, the adhesion between the diaphragm and the pole piece is still weak, and the lamination process is easy to have the situation of infirm compounding, so the yield is lower;
the difference between the comparative example 3 and the example 2 is that the hot pressing replaces the superposition of electrostatic adsorption, the yield is obviously reduced from 97.5 percent to 50 percent, because the anode, the cathode and the diaphragm are seriously deformed and the yield is extremely low after the hot pressing causes the compounding of the anode, the cathode and the diaphragm; and the adhesive force between the pole piece and the diaphragm interface is too large, so that the interface electrolyte is difficult to soak, and the soaking time is long. The internal resistance of the battery, namely DCR is remarkably increased, the capacity is difficult to effectively exert, and the internal resistance is only 35.7 Ah;
comparative example 4 is different from example 5 in that the dew point resting temperature was too low at-70 c, and the battery yield decreased to only 71%. The battery capacity dropped to 54Ah and the DCR increased significantly. The main reason is that the dew point temperature is too low, the static electricity of the diaphragm is too large, dust and impurities are easily adsorbed in the lamination process, the yield is reduced, the internal resistance of the battery is increased due to the existence of the impurities, the side reaction is increased, and the capacity is reduced;
the difference between the comparative example 5 and the example 5 is that the dew point standing time is too short, namely 60 hours, the battery yield is reduced from 99% to 80%, the capacity is reduced from 58Ah to 53Ah, the DCR is increased from 1.75 to 2.5, and the reason is mainly that the standing time is too short, enough static electricity cannot be formed on the surface of the diaphragm, the composite effect of the pole piece and the diaphragm is influenced, and the yield is reduced. Meanwhile, the time is too short, the water content of the diaphragm is higher, so that the water content in the battery cell is higher, and the side reaction of the battery in the formation and grading processes is serious, so that the DCR is remarkably increased, and the capacity is reduced;
comparative example 6 is different from example 5 in that the magnitude of static electricity charged to the separator was 3500V, the battery yield was reduced from 100% to 60%, the capacity was reduced from 58Ah to 49Ah, and the DCR was increased from 1.7 to 2.7. The reason is that the diaphragm is easy to absorb a large amount of impurity dust in the lamination process due to overlarge static electricity, so that the yield is reduced. Meanwhile, the impurity dust causes side reactions inside the battery, increases the internal resistance of the battery, and causes a drop in capacity.
As can be seen from the data of examples 1 to 6 and comparative examples 1 to 6, only the solutions within the scope of the claims of the present invention can satisfy the above requirements in all aspects, and an optimized solution can be obtained, and a lithium battery cell structure with optimal performance can be obtained. The change of the mixture ratio, the replacement/addition/subtraction of raw materials or the change of the feeding sequence can bring corresponding negative effects.
The raw materials and equipment used in the invention are common raw materials and equipment in the field if not specified; the methods used in the present invention are conventional in the art unless otherwise specified.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and all simple modifications, alterations and equivalents of the above embodiments according to the technical spirit of the present invention are still within the protection scope of the technical solution of the present invention.