Detailed Description
The present inventors have made long-term studies and extensive practices to solve the problem of ion transport in the interior of a solid electrode and at the interface of the solid electrode/solid electrolyte, and have proposed a technical solution of the present invention, which is to provide an in-situ polymerization method capable of constructing a relatively high ion transport channel in the interior of a solid electrode, wherein two monomers having a relatively high ion conductivity, i.e., an ionic liquid monomer (also referred to as monomer a), a polymer monomer (also referred to as monomer B), a lithium salt and other solid electrolyte components, are added during the electrode slurry mixing process, and are uniformly mixed with an active material, a conductive additive and a binder, and after being coated on a current collector, the two monomers are polymerized in situ on the surface of active particles to form a coating layer, and after drying, a solid cathode and a solid anode in which the active material particles are uniformly coated with the conductive additive and the solid electrolyte can be finally prepared, effectively solves the problem of ion transmission among active particles in the solid electrode.
The technical solution, its implementation and principles, etc. will be further explained as follows.
An aspect of an embodiment of the present invention provides a solid electrode including: the conductive additive and the polyion liquid-based solid electrolyte are uniformly and densely coated on the surface of the active material particles, and the polyion liquid-based solid electrolyte is a copolymer electrolyte obtained by in-situ polymerization reaction of an ionic liquid monomer with at least one reactive active group and a polymer monomer with at least one reactive active group.
In some preferred embodiments, the solid electrode comprises an active positive electrode or negative electrode material, a conductive additive, a polyionic liquid-based solid electrolyte, and a current collector, wherein active material particles in the solid electrode are uniformly and densely coated with the conductive additive and the polyionic liquid-based solid electrolyte.
In some preferred embodiments, the porosity of the solid electrode is 3 to 20%, preferably 5 to 15%.
In some preferred embodiments, the mass content of the active material particles in the solid electrode is 70 to 95 wt%, the content of the conductive additive is 3 to 10 wt%, and the content of the polyion liquid-based solid electrolyte is 1 to 10 wt%.
Furthermore, the solid electrode also comprises a binder, and the content of the binder in the solid electrode is 0-10 wt%.
In some preferred embodiments, the solid-state electrolyte is a non-flammable, high temperature resistant polyionic liquid-based solid-state electrolyte that is a copolymer electrolyte containing an ionic liquid monomer (also referred to as monomer a) that is cationic or anionic and another polymer monomer containing a soft segment (also referred to as monomer B).
Furthermore, the content of an ionic liquid polymer formed by an ionic liquid monomer in the polyionic liquid-based solid electrolyte is 50-95 wt%, the content of a polymer formed by a polymer monomer B is 0-40 wt%, and the content of lithium salt is 5-40 wt%.
Further, the number average molecular weight of the polyion liquid-based solid electrolyte is 10000-200000, preferably 10000-100000.
In some preferred embodiments, the ionic liquid monomer is a cationic ionic liquid and/or an anionic ionic liquid, and preferably includes any one or a combination of two or more of imidazole ionic liquids, pyrrole ionic liquids, pyridine ionic liquids, piperidine ionic liquids, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the ionic liquid monomer is preferably 1-vinyl-3-butylimidazolium bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the ionic liquid monomer contains one or more reactive groups, and the reactive groups can be, but are not limited to, vinyl, allyl, epoxypropyl, amine, hydroxyl and the like.
In some preferred embodiments, the polymer monomer B is a polymer monomer comprising a soft segment.
Further, the polymer monomer includes any one or a combination of two or more of an acrylate monomer having at least one reactive group, an acrylonitrile monomer, an ethylene oxide monomer, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the reactive group may be, but is not limited to, vinyl, allyl, epoxypropyl, amine, hydroxyl, and the like.
Further, the polymer monomer B is preferably polyethylene glycol diacrylate, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the lithium salt includes any one or a combination of two or more of lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide, lithium perchlorate, lithium tetrafluoroborate, lithium hexafluorophosphate, lithium bistrifluorosulfonylimide, lithium difluorooxalatoborate, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
In some preferred embodiments, the active material particles may include positive electrode active material particles or negative electrode active material particles.
Further, the positive electrode active material particles may be not only lithium iron phosphate but also any one or a combination of two or more of positive electrode materials such as lithium manganate, lithium cobaltate, ternary materials, and the like, but are not limited thereto.
Further, the negative electrode active material particles may be any one of or a combination of two or more of negative electrode materials such as graphite, hard carbon, soft carbon, lithium titanate, silicon/carbon material, silicon/silicon oxide material, and the like, but are not limited thereto.
Further, the conductive additive includes any one or a combination of two or more of conductive carbon black, SUPER-P, KS-6, carbon nanotube, graphene, carbon fiber VGCF, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the binder includes any one or a combination of two or more of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), polyacrylic acid, styrene butadiene rubber, polyamide, polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene imine, polyimide, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the current collector may be a foil, or may be a porous conductive material having a three-dimensional structure, but is not limited thereto.
The solid electrode provided by the invention does not contain an ionic liquid plasticizer, so that various problems caused by the ionic liquid plasticizer are greatly reduced; the polyion liquid-based solid electrolyte in the solid electrode is generated by in-situ polymerization of a precursor, and by adopting the in-situ polymerization method, the molecular weight of the polymer can be regulated and controlled within a proper range (10000-200000) by adjusting the addition proportion and the polymerization time of an initiator, so that the polymer with high ionic conductivity can be obtained; the polyion liquid-based solid electrolyte in the solid electrode is generated by copolymerizing an ionic liquid monomer and another polymer monomer containing a flexible chain segment, and the copolymerization of the two monomers has a self-plasticizing effect, so that the chain segment movement can be effectively enhanced, and the ion transfer capacity can be improved.
Another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for preparing the aforementioned solid electrode, including:
providing a uniformly mixed reaction system containing active material particles, a conductive additive, a solid electrolyte precursor solution, a binder and a dispersant, wherein the solid electrolyte precursor solution comprises a mixture of an ionic liquid monomer having at least one reactive active group, a polymer monomer having at least one reactive active group, an initiator and a lithium salt;
applying the uniformly mixed reaction system on a current collector, and carrying out heating or illumination treatment to enable ionic liquid monomers and polymer monomers in the uniformly mixed reaction system to carry out in-situ polymerization reaction on the surfaces of the active material particles, so as to coat the surfaces of the active material particles to form polyion liquid-based solid electrolyte; and the number of the first and second groups,
and removing the dispersing agent to ensure that the conductive additive and the polyion liquid-based solid electrolyte are uniformly and densely coated on the surface of the active material particles to obtain the solid electrode.
In some preferred embodiments, the polymerization mechanism may be free radical polymerization, wherein the double bonds in the ionic liquid monomer a and the polymer monomer B are opened by an initiator, and multiple addition reactions are performed to sequentially connect the monomer units in series to form a high molecular polymer, and the polymerization mechanism may be cationic polymerization, anionic polymerization, gel factor-initiated polymerization, thermal chemical crosslinking polymerization without an initiator, gamma ray-initiated polymerization without an initiator, or the like.
In some preferred embodiments, the mass ratio of the active material particles, the conductive additive, the binder and the solid electrolyte precursor solution is 70-95: 3-10: 0-10: 1-10.
In some preferred embodiments, the content of the ionic liquid monomer, the content of the polymer monomer and the content of the lithium salt in the solid electrolyte precursor solution are respectively 50-95 wt%, 0-40 wt% and 5-40 wt%.
Further, the mass ratio of the initiator to the combination of the ionic liquid monomer and the polymer monomer is 0.5-5: 100, that is, the amount of the initiator is 0.5-5% of the total mass of the ionic liquid monomer A and the polymer monomer B.
In some preferred embodiments, the initiator may include a thermal initiator, a photoinitiator, and the like.
Further, the thermal initiator includes any one or a combination of two or more of azobisisobutyronitrile, azobisisoheptonitrile, dibenzoyl peroxide, dialkyl peroxide, potassium persulfate, cumene hydroperoxide, t-butyl hydroperoxide, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the photoinitiator includes any one or a combination of two or more of 2-hydroxy-methylphenylpropane-1-one, 1-hydroxycyclohexylphenylketone, 2-methyl-1- (4-methylthiophenyl) -2-morpholinyl-1-propanone, bis (2, 4, 6-trimethylbenzoyl) phenylphosphine oxide, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the dispersant includes a solvent such as N-methylpyrrolidone, water, N-dimethylformamide, etc., preferably N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP), but is not limited thereto.
In some preferred embodiments, the method of preparation comprises: and applying the uniformly mixed reaction system on a current collector, wherein the coating thickness is 10-1000 mu m, and then heating or performing illumination treatment.
In some preferred embodiments, the temperature of the heating treatment is 50-80 ℃ and the time is 4-24 h.
Further, the illumination treatment time is 1-60 min.
In some more specific embodiments, the solid electrode is prepared by the following steps:
1) adding active material particles, a conductive additive and solid electrolyte precursor components including an ionic liquid monomer A, a polymer monomer B, an initiator, lithium salt and the like into a dispersing agent, and uniformly dispersing the mixture by high-speed mixing to obtain electrode slurry;
2) coating the electrode slurry on a current collector, heating for 4-24 h at 50-80 ℃ or irradiating for 1-60 min by UV (ultraviolet) light to promote the in-situ polymerization reaction of the two monomers on the surfaces of active material particles;
3) drying to remove the dispersant solvent, and obtaining the solid anode or solid cathode with active material particles uniformly wrapped by the conductive additive and the solid electrolyte.
According to the preparation method of the solid electrode, the polymerizable active monomer is added in the slurry mixing process, so that the polymerizable active monomer is favorably and uniformly dispersed on the surfaces of active material particles, the active material particles and the conductive additive in the prepared solid electrode are uniformly and compactly coated with a layer of nonflammable high-temperature-resistant polyion liquid solid electrolyte, and thus a solid electrode structure with the porosity of 0-20% is obtained, and the structure is favorable for reducing the interface impedance among the active particles in the solid electrode, improving the ion conduction among the particles, and effectively solving the problem of ion transmission among the active particles in the solid electrode.
Another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention provides a use of the aforementioned solid electrode for the preparation of a lithium battery.
Further, the lithium battery may be a solid state lithium battery.
Accordingly, another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention also provides a solid-state lithium battery including the foregoing solid electrode.
The electrochemical performance of the solid electrode is evaluated by using a solid electrode solid electrolyte membrane Li battery, 1-vinyl-3-butylimidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt, polyethylene glycol diacrylate and bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide lithium are uniformly mixed according to the mass ratio of 5: 2: 3, then a thermal initiator-azobisisobutyronitrile (1% of the total mass of the monomer) is added, magnetic stirring is carried out for 10 minutes to obtain a uniform solution, the solution is coated on the prepared composite solid electrode in a blade mode, the monomer is polymerized into a solid electrolyte to cover the composite solid electrode by vacuum heating at 60 ℃ for 8 hours, and finally the solid electrode and the Li foil lamination method are used for preparing and assembling the solid battery.
The solid-state battery is subjected to battery internal resistance test and charge and discharge test at room temperature of 25 ℃, and the charge and discharge test multiplying power is 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 and 1C.
In conclusion, the all-solid-state battery containing the solid electrode can obtain higher specific capacity, lower internal resistance and better rate performance at 25 ℃.
The technical solutions of the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to several preferred embodiments and accompanying drawings, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention. The experimental procedures, in which specific conditions are not noted in the following examples, are generally carried out under conventional conditions or conditions recommended by the manufacturers.
The following examples illustrate the porosity of the solid electrode, the molecular weight of the copolymer solid electrolyte, and the influence of the two copolymers and the pure ionic liquid monomer homopolymer on the electrochemical performance of the solid electrode with the lithium iron phosphate cathode material. The active material of the solid electrode may be not only a lithium iron phosphate material, but also a positive electrode material such as lithium manganate, lithium cobaltate, a ternary material, and the like, and may also be a negative electrode material such as graphite, hard carbon, soft carbon, lithium titanate, a silicon/carbon material, a silicon/silicon oxide material, and the like. In the examples, the electrochemical performance of the solid electrode was evaluated by assembling a solid electrode | solid state electrolyte | Li cell, in which a lithium iron phosphate electrode | solid state electrolyte | Li cell, a lithium manganate electrode | solid state electrolyte | Li cell, and a ternary material electrode | solid state electrolyte | Li cell were charged and discharged at a window of 2.5 to 4.2V at room temperature, and the assembled graphite electrode | solid state electrolyte | Li cell was charged and discharged at 0.1 to 3.0V at room temperature.
Example 1
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: vinyl imidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (50 wt%), monomer B: acrylate monomer (20 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), thermal initiator: azobisisobutyronitrile (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing lithium iron phosphate, a conductive agent-conductive carbon black, a binder PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 70: 10, blade-coating the dispersion solution on the surface of an aluminum foil, coating the aluminum foil with the thickness of 200 mu m, and heating the aluminum foil in vacuum at 50 ℃ for 24h to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove the solvent NMP, so as to obtain a solid lithium iron phosphate electrode with the porosity of 3%, wherein the average molecular weight of the contained solid electrolyte is about 200000. Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the solid electrode obtained in this embodiment.
Example 2
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: allyl pyrrole-containing ionic liquid monomer (50 wt%), monomer B: acrylate monomer (20 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), thermal initiator: azobisisobutyronitrile (0.5% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing lithium iron phosphate, a conductive agent-conductive carbon black, a binder PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 85: 5: 0: 10, blade-coating the dispersion solution on the surface of an aluminum foil, coating the aluminum foil with the thickness of 200 mu m, and heating the aluminum foil in vacuum at 80 ℃ for 4h to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove the solvent NMP, so as to obtain a solid lithium iron phosphate electrode with the porosity of 5%, wherein the average molecular weight of the contained solid electrolyte is about 100000.
Example 3
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: piperidine bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt containing an amine group (50 wt%), monomer B: two-stage glycidyl group-containing polyethylene glycol (20 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), thermal initiator: azobisisobutyronitrile (5% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing a lithium iron phosphate material, a conductive agent-conductive carbon black, a binder-PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 88: 5: 3: 4, blade-coating the dispersion solution on the surface of an aluminum mesh, coating the surface of the aluminum mesh with the thickness of 200 mu m, and heating the aluminum mesh in vacuum at 60 ℃ for 12h to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove the NMP solvent, thereby obtaining a solid electrode with the porosity of 10%, wherein the average molecular weight of the contained solid electrolyte is about 50000.
Example 4
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: vinyl imidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (50 wt%), monomer B: acrylonitrile monomer (20 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), thermal initiator: azobisisobutyronitrile (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing a lithium iron phosphate positive electrode material, a conductive agent, conductive carbon black, a binder, PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 88: 5: 3: 4, blade-coating the dispersion liquid on the surface of an aluminum mesh, wherein the coating thickness is 200 mu m, and vacuum heating is carried out at 60 ℃ for 12h to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove the NMP solvent at the same time, so as to obtain a solid electrode with the porosity of 10%, wherein the average molecular weight of the contained solid electrolyte is about 100000.
Example 5
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: vinyl imidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (50 wt%), monomer B: diacrylate monomer (20 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), thermal initiator: azobisisobutyronitrile (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing a lithium iron phosphate material, a conductive agent-conductive carbon black, a binder-PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 95: 2: 1, coating the dispersion liquid on the surface of an aluminum foil in a blade mode, wherein the coating thickness is 200 mu m, and heating in vacuum at 60 ℃ for 24h to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove the solvent NMP, so that a solid electrode with the porosity of 20% is obtained, and the average molecular weight of the contained solid electrolyte is about 200000.
Example 6
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: vinylimidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (95 wt%), monomer B: diacrylate monomer (0 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (5 wt%), thermal initiator: azobisisobutyronitrile (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing graphite, a conductive agent-conductive carbon black, a binder-PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 91: 3: 2: 4, coating the dispersion solution on the surface of an aluminum foil in a blade mode, wherein the coating thickness is 200 mu m, and heating in vacuum at 60 ℃ for 8h to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove the NMP solvent at the same time, so that a solid electrode with the porosity of 10% is obtained, and the average molecular weight of the contained solid electrolyte is about 50000.
Example 7
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: aminopyrrole bis (trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide salt (50 wt%), monomer B: two-stage glycidyl end group-containing polyethylene oxide (10 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (40 wt%), a thermal initiator was additionally added: azobisisobutyronitrile (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing a lithium iron phosphate material, a conductive agent-conductive carbon black, a binder-PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 88: 5: 3: 4, blade-coating the dispersion solution on the surface of a copper mesh, coating the copper mesh with the thickness of 200 mu m, and heating the copper mesh in vacuum at 60 ℃ for 8h to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove the NMP solvent, thereby obtaining a solid electrode with the porosity of 10%, wherein the average molecular weight of the contained solid electrolyte is about 50000.
Example 8
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: allylimidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (50 wt%), monomer B: acrylate monomer (20 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), photoinitiator: bis (2, 4, 6-trimethylbenzoyl) phenylphosphine oxide (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing a lithium iron phosphate material, a conductive agent, conductive carbon black, a binder, PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 88: 5: 3: 4, blade-coating the dispersion liquid on the surface of an aluminum foil, coating the dispersion liquid with the thickness of 200 mu m, carrying out ultraviolet curing for 2min in a glove box filled with argon, carrying out vacuum heating for 12h at 60 ℃, removing the NMP solvent, and obtaining a solid electrode with the porosity of 10%, wherein the average molecular weight of the solid electrolyte is 10000.
Example 9
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: vinylpiperidine bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (50 wt%), monomer B: acrylonitrile monomer (40 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (10 wt%), photoinitiator: bis (2, 4, 6-trimethylbenzoyl) phenylphosphine oxide (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing a lithium iron phosphate material, a conductive agent-conductive carbon black, a binder-PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 90: 3: 4, blade-coating the dispersion liquid on the surface of an aluminum foil, coating the aluminum foil with the thickness of 200 mu m, carrying out ultraviolet curing for 60min in a glove box filled with argon, heating in vacuum at 60 ℃ for 12h to remove a solvent NMP, and obtaining a solid electrode with the porosity of 10%, wherein the molecular weight of the solid electrolyte is 200000.
Example 10
In this example, the present inventors further performed the same experiment by replacing the thermal initiator azobisisobutyronitrile with azobisisoheptonitrile, dibenzoyl peroxide, dialkyl peroxide, potassium persulfate, cumene hydroperoxide, tert-butyl hydroperoxide, etc., according to the procedure of example 1, and the structure and performance of the obtained solid electrode substantially agreed with those of example 1.
Example 11
In this embodiment, the inventors further replaced lithium iron phosphate as the positive electrode active material particles, respectively, with lithium manganate, lithium cobaltate, and the like, replaced conductive carbon black as the conductive additive, respectively, with SUPER-P, KS-6, carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon fibers VGCF, and the like, and replaced PVDF as the binder, respectively, with polyacrylic acid, styrene butadiene rubber, polyamide, polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene imine, polyimide, and the like, according to the procedure of example 1, and performed the same experiment, and the structure and performance of the obtained solid electrode were substantially the same as those of example 1.
Example 12
In this example, the present inventors further replaced the photoinitiator bis (2, 4, 6-trimethylbenzoyl) phenylphosphine oxide with 2-hydroxy-methylphenylpropane-1-one, 1-hydroxycyclohexylphenylketone, 2-methyl-1- (4-methylthiophenyl) -2-morpholino-1-propanone, etc., respectively, according to the procedure of example 9, and conducted the same experiment, and the ultraviolet curing time was 1min, and the structure and properties of the obtained solid electrode were substantially identical to those of example 1.
Example 13
In this embodiment, the inventors further replaced the lithium iron phosphate as the positive active material particles with graphite as the negative active material particles, hard carbon, soft carbon, lithium titanate, silicon/carbon material, silicon/silicon oxide, and the like according to the procedure in example 9, and performed the same experiment, and the obtained solid negative electrode could obtain higher specific capacity, lower internal resistance, and better rate capability at 25 ℃.
Comparative example 1
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing lithium iron phosphate, a conductive agent, conductive carbon black and a binder, namely PVDF in NMP according to the mass ratio of 90: 5, blade-coating the dispersion on the surface of an aluminum foil, coating the surface of the aluminum foil with the thickness of 200 mu m, heating the aluminum foil in vacuum at 60 ℃ for 8 hours, and removing the solvent NMP. The solid electrode has a porosity of 35% and does not contain a solid electrolyte to form a continuous ion channel. The results are shown in Table 1, which shows that the solid electrode containing no solid electrolyte has a large internal resistance, a low capacity exertion and a poor rate capability. A schematic view of the internal structure of the solid electrode obtained in this comparative example can be seen from fig. 2.
Comparative example 2
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: vinylimidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (45 wt%), monomer B: diacrylate (15 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), thermal initiator: azodiisobutyronitrile (1% of the total mass of the monomer A and the monomer B), and 1-ethyl-3-butylimidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide ionic liquid (10 wt%) as a plasticizer.
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing active substance-graphite, conductive agent-conductive carbon black, binder-PVDF and solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 91: 2: 3: 4, blade-coating the dispersion on the surface of a copper mesh, coating the surface of the copper mesh with the thickness of 200 mu m, and heating the copper mesh in vacuum at 60 ℃ for 8h to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove the NMP solvent at the same time, thereby obtaining the solid electrode with the porosity of 10%, wherein the average molecular weight of the solid electrolyte is about 50000. The results are shown in Table 1, which shows that the battery cannot be normally charged and discharged although the internal resistance is small in the case of the graphite electrode, and that the ionic liquid may be co-intercalated in the graphite.
Comparative example 3
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: vinylimidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (50 wt%), monomer B: diacrylate (20 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), a thermal initiator was additionally added: azobisisobutyronitrile (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing active substance-lithium iron phosphate, conductive agent-conductive carbon black, binder-PVDF and solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 88: 5: 3: 4, blade-coating the dispersion on the surface of an aluminum foil, coating the surface of the aluminum foil with the thickness of 200 mu m, and heating the aluminum foil in vacuum at 60 ℃ for 48 hours to polymerize monomers in the solid electrolyte precursor and remove NMP solvent at the same time, thereby obtaining a solid electrode with the porosity of 10%, wherein the average molecular weight of the solid electrolyte is about 300000. The results are shown in Table 1, which shows that too large molecular weight results in too low ionic conductivity of the polymer electrolyte, resulting in large internal resistance of the battery, low capacity exertion, and poor rate capability.
Comparative example 4
Solid electrolyte precursor solution composition: monomer A: vinylimidazole bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide salt (50 wt%), monomer B: diacrylate (20 wt%), lithium salt: lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonimide (30 wt%), photoinitiator: bis (2, 4, 6-trimethylbenzoyl) phenylphosphine oxide (1% of the total mass of monomer A and monomer B).
Preparation of solid electrode: uniformly dispersing lithium iron phosphate, a conductive agent-conductive carbon black, a binder-PVDF and a solid electrolyte precursor solution in NMP according to the mass ratio of 90: 3: 4, blade-coating the dispersion solution on the surface of an aluminum foil, coating the aluminum foil with the thickness of 200 mu m, carrying out ultraviolet curing for 90min in a glove box filled with argon, carrying out vacuum heating for 12h at 60 ℃, removing the NMP solvent, and obtaining a solid electrode with the porosity of 10%, wherein the molecular weight of the solid electrolyte is 250000. The results are shown in Table 1, which shows that too large molecular weight results in too low ionic conductivity of the polymer electrolyte, resulting in large internal resistance of the battery, low capacity exertion, and poor rate capability.
TABLE 1 internal resistance and specific capacity at different rates at 25 ℃ of solid electrode | solid electrolyte | Li cell
As can be seen from the test results of table 1 above: 1. the molecular weight of the polymer can be regulated and controlled by regulating the polymerization time, so that the ionic conductivity of the solid polymer electrolyte, the internal resistance and the electrochemical performance of the solid battery are influenced. 2. The porosity of the solid pole piece can be regulated and controlled by adjusting the proportion of the active substance, the conductive carbon black and the solid electrolyte, so that the impedance and the rate performance of the solid battery are influenced. 3. From comparative example 1, the total impedance of the battery was large because no solid electrolyte inside the positive electrode constructed an ion transmission channel, resulting in failure to exert the capacity of the battery. 4. It can be seen from comparative example 2 that with the addition of an ionic liquid as a plasticizer, the ionic liquid co-intercalates into the graphite, resulting in failure of the graphite to function properly. 5. Comparative examples 3 and 4 show that too long polymerization time results in too large a polymer molecular weight, resulting in too low an ionic conductivity of the polymer electrolyte, large internal resistance of the battery, low capacity exertion, and poor rate performance.
The aspects, embodiments, features and examples of the present invention should be considered as illustrative in all respects and not intended to be limiting of the invention, the scope of which is defined only by the claims. Other embodiments, modifications, and uses will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the claimed invention.
The use of headings and chapters in this disclosure is not meant to limit the disclosure; each section may apply to any aspect, embodiment, or feature of the disclosure.
Throughout this specification, where a composition is described as having, containing, or comprising specific components or where a process is described as having, containing, or comprising specific process steps, it is contemplated that the composition of the present teachings also consist essentially of, or consist of, the recited components, and the process of the present teachings also consist essentially of, or consist of, the recited process steps.
Unless specifically stated otherwise, use of the terms "comprising", "including", "having" or "having" is generally to be understood as open-ended and not limiting.
It should be understood that the order of steps or the order in which particular actions are performed is not critical, so long as the teachings of the invention remain operable. Further, two or more steps or actions may be performed simultaneously.
In addition, the inventors of the present invention have also made experiments with other materials, process operations, and process conditions described in the present specification with reference to the above examples, and have obtained preferable results.
While the invention has been described with reference to illustrative embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various other changes, omissions and/or additions may be made and substantial equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. In addition, many modifications may be made to adapt a particular situation or material to the teachings of the invention without departing from its scope. Therefore, it is intended that the invention not be limited to the particular embodiment disclosed for carrying out this invention, but that the invention will include all embodiments falling within the scope of the appended claims. Moreover, unless specifically stated any use of the terms first, second, etc. do not denote any order or importance, but rather the terms first, second, etc. are used to distinguish one element from another.