Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the invention aims at overcoming the defects in the prior art, and mainly aims to provide a preparation method of a low-expansion silicon-carbon negative electrode material for a lithium ion battery, which has the advantages of simple process and low energy consumption, thereby further reducing the cost, being convenient for popularization and application and being beneficial to industrialization.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme:
the preparation method of the low-expansion silicon-carbon negative electrode material for the lithium ion battery comprises the following steps of:
(1) Mixing: silica powder, a binder, a pore-forming agent and a solvent are mixed according to the following ratio of 1: (0.05-0.5): (0.05-0.1): adding the silicon slurry into a sand mill according to the mass ratio of (0.5-2.0) for grinding for 1-5h, wherein the grinding speed is 500-2500r/min, so as to obtain silicon slurry;
(2) Granulating: drying the silicon slurry obtained in the step (1) into powder by a spray dryer, wherein the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 150-300 ℃, the air outlet temperature is 100-150 ℃, and the rotation degree of a constant flow pump is 50-100r/min, so as to obtain a silicon carbon precursor;
(3) Carbonizing: and (3) placing the silicon-carbon precursor obtained in the step (2) into a nitrogen atmosphere protection furnace for sintering, raising the temperature to 1100-1500 ℃ at a heating rate of 2-25 ℃/min, preserving the temperature for 6-12 hours, and crushing and screening to obtain the silicon-carbon anode material.
As a preferable scheme, the silicon powder d50=20-100 nm in the step (1) has a spherical shape.
As a preferable scheme, the binder in the step (1) is one or a mixture of coal-based asphalt and oil-based asphalt, and the softening point of the binder is 50-200 ℃.
As a preferable scheme, the pore-forming agent in the step (1) is one or more than two of ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate, ammonium oxalate, ammonium nitrate, ammonium phosphate and ammonium hydrogen phosphate.
As a preferable mode, the solvent in the step (1) is one or more of benzene, toluene and xylene.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has obvious advantages and beneficial effects, and in particular, the technical scheme can be as follows:
according to the invention, a simple three-step method is adopted to realize integrated preparation of pore-forming and coating, by the method, pore-forming agent is subjected to full thermal decomposition on the surface of silicon powder to form a preliminary pore skeleton, asphalt flows on the surface of the pore skeleton to coat, so that an internal porous and uniformly-compactly-coated silicon-carbon material is formed, the internal porous formed after carbonization can effectively buffer the volume expansion of silicon, and meanwhile, the compactly-coated coating layer on the surface can realize low specific surface area, so that the interface is improved, and the capacity, the first efficiency and the power performance of a silicon-carbon anode can be greatly improved. In addition, the invention has simple process, simple operation and lower energy consumption, thereby further reducing the cost, being convenient for popularization and application and being beneficial to industrialization.
In order to more clearly illustrate the features and effects of the present invention, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to specific examples.
Detailed Description
The invention discloses a preparation method of a low-expansion silicon-carbon anode material for a lithium ion battery, which comprises the following steps:
(1) Mixing: silica powder, a binder, a pore-forming agent and a solvent are mixed according to the following ratio of 1: (0.05-0.5): (0.05-0.1): adding the silicon slurry into a sand mill according to the mass ratio of (0.5-2.0) for grinding for 1-5h, wherein the grinding speed is 500-2500r/min, so as to obtain silicon slurry; silicon powder D50=20-100 nm, and the morphology of the silicon powder is spherical; the binder is one or a mixture of coal-series asphalt and oil-series asphalt, and the softening point of the binder is 50-200 ℃; the pore-forming agent is one or more than two of ammonium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate, ammonium oxalate, ammonium nitrate, ammonium phosphate and ammonium hydrogen phosphate; the solvent is one or more of benzene, toluene and xylene.
(2) Granulating: and (3) drying the silicon slurry obtained in the step (1) into powder by a spray dryer, wherein the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 150-300 ℃, the air outlet temperature is 100-150 ℃, and the rotation degree of a constant flow pump is 50-100r/min, so as to obtain the silicon carbon precursor.
(3) Carbonizing: and (3) placing the silicon-carbon precursor obtained in the step (2) into a nitrogen atmosphere protection furnace for sintering, raising the temperature to 1100-1500 ℃ at a heating rate of 2-25 ℃/min, preserving the temperature for 6-12 hours, and crushing and screening to obtain the silicon-carbon anode material.
The invention is described in further detail below in a number of examples:
example 1
(1) Mixing: silica powder, a binder, a pore-forming agent and a solvent are mixed according to the following ratio of 1:0.05:0.05: grinding for 1h by adding a sand mill with the mass ratio of 0.5 and the grinding speed of 500r/min to obtain silicon slurry; silicon powder D50=20-100 nm, and the morphology of the silicon powder is spherical; the binder is coal pitch with a softening point of 50-200 ℃; the pore-forming agent is ammonium bicarbonate; the solvent is benzene.
(2) Granulating: drying the silicon slurry obtained in the step (1) into powder by a spray dryer, wherein the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 200 ℃, the air outlet temperature is 120 ℃, and the rotation degree of a constant flow pump is 80r/min, so as to obtain a silicon-carbon precursor;
(3) Carbonizing: and (3) placing the silicon-carbon precursor obtained in the step (2) into a nitrogen atmosphere protection furnace for sintering, heating to 1200 ℃ at a heating rate of 20 ℃/min, preserving heat for 8 hours, and crushing and screening to obtain the silicon-carbon anode material.
Example 2
(1) Mixing: silica powder, a binder, a pore-forming agent and a solvent are mixed according to the following ratio of 1:0.5:0.1:2.0, adding into a sand mill for grinding for 5 hours, wherein the grinding speed is 2500r/min, and obtaining silicon slurry; silicon powder D50=20-100 nm, and the morphology of the silicon powder is spherical; the binder is oil asphalt, and the softening point of the binder is 50-200 ℃; the pore-forming agent is ammonium carbonate; the solvent is toluene.
(2) Granulating: and (3) drying the silicon slurry obtained in the step (1) into powder by a spray dryer, wherein the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 180 ℃, the air outlet temperature is 140 ℃, and the rotation degree of a constant flow pump is 55r/min, so as to obtain the silicon-carbon precursor.
(3) Carbonizing: and (3) placing the silicon-carbon precursor obtained in the step (2) into a nitrogen atmosphere protection furnace for sintering, heating to 1250 ℃ at a heating rate of 15 ℃/min, preserving heat for 10 hours, and crushing and screening to obtain the silicon-carbon anode material.
Example 3
(1) Mixing: silica powder, a binder, a pore-forming agent and a solvent are mixed according to the following ratio of 1:0.1:0.08:1, adding the mixture into a sand mill for grinding for 3 hours, wherein the grinding speed is 1500r/min, and obtaining silicon slurry; silicon powder D50=20-100 nm, and the morphology of the silicon powder is spherical; the binder is a mixture of coal-series asphalt and oil-series asphalt, and the softening point of the binder is 50-200 ℃; the pore-forming agent is ammonium oxalate; the solvent is xylene.
(2) Granulating: and (3) drying the silicon slurry obtained in the step (1) into powder by a spray dryer, wherein the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 150 ℃, the air outlet temperature is 100 ℃, and the rotation degree of a constant flow pump is 50r/min, so as to obtain the silicon-carbon precursor.
(3) Carbonizing: and (3) placing the silicon-carbon precursor obtained in the step (2) into a nitrogen atmosphere protection furnace for sintering, heating to 1200 ℃ at a heating rate of 8 ℃/min, preserving heat for 8 hours, crushing and screening to obtain the silicon-carbon anode material.
Example 4
(1) Mixing: silica powder, a binder, a pore-forming agent and a solvent are mixed according to the following ratio of 1:0.2:0.09: grinding for 3 hours by adding a sand mill according to the mass ratio of 1, wherein the grinding speed is 500-2500r/min, and obtaining silicon slurry; silicon powder D50=20-100 nm, and the morphology of the silicon powder is spherical; the binder is coal pitch with a softening point of 50-200 ℃; the pore-forming agent is ammonium nitrate; the solvent is a mixture of benzene and toluene.
(2) Granulating: and (3) drying the silicon slurry obtained in the step (1) into powder by a spray dryer, wherein the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 300 ℃, the air outlet temperature is 150 ℃, and the rotation degree of a constant flow pump is 100r/min, so as to obtain the silicon-carbon precursor.
(3) Carbonizing: and (3) placing the silicon-carbon precursor obtained in the step (2) into a nitrogen atmosphere protection furnace for sintering, heating to 1400 ℃ at a heating rate of 15 ℃/min, preserving heat for 10 hours, crushing and screening to obtain the silicon-carbon anode material.
(1) Mixing: silica powder, a binder, a pore-forming agent and a solvent are mixed according to the following ratio of 1:0.2:0.09:1, adding the mixture into a sand mill for grinding for 3 hours, wherein the grinding speed is 12500r/min, and obtaining silicon slurry; silicon powder D50=20-100 nm, and the morphology of the silicon powder is spherical; the binder is coal pitch with a softening point of 50-200 ℃; the pore-forming agent is ammonium phosphate; the solvent is benzene.
(2) Granulating: and (3) drying the silicon slurry obtained in the step (1) into powder by a spray dryer, wherein the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 200 ℃, the air outlet temperature is 120 ℃, and the rotation degree of a constant flow pump is 80r/min, so as to obtain the silicon-carbon precursor.
(3) Carbonizing: and (3) placing the silicon-carbon precursor obtained in the step (2) into a nitrogen atmosphere protection furnace for sintering, heating to 1100 ℃ at a heating rate of 2 ℃/min, preserving heat for 6 hours, and crushing and screening to obtain the silicon-carbon anode material.
Example 6
(1) Mixing: silica powder, a binder, a pore-forming agent and a solvent are mixed according to the following ratio of 1:0.2:0.09:1, adding the mixture into a sand mill for grinding for 3 hours, wherein the grinding speed is 1500r/min, and obtaining silicon slurry; silicon powder D50=20-100 nm, and the morphology of the silicon powder is spherical; the binder is coal pitch with a softening point of 50-200 ℃; the pore-forming agent is ammonium hydrogen phosphate; the solvent is a mixture of benzene and toluene.
(2) Granulating: and (3) drying the silicon slurry obtained in the step (1) into powder by a spray dryer, wherein the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 300 ℃, the air outlet temperature is 120 ℃, and the rotation degree of a constant flow pump is 80r/min, so as to obtain the silicon-carbon precursor.
(3) Carbonizing: and (3) placing the silicon-carbon precursor obtained in the step (2) into a nitrogen atmosphere protection furnace for sintering, heating to 1500 ℃ at a heating rate of 25 ℃/min, preserving heat for 12 hours, and crushing and screening to obtain the silicon-carbon anode material.
Performance testing
The silicon-carbon negative electrode materials prepared in the above examples were coated with the silicon-carbon negative electrode materials prepared in comparative example 1, in which no pore-forming agent was added, and the other steps were performed to test the properties of the silicon-carbon negative electrode materials prepared in comparative example 1, which were the same as those of the above examples, as shown in table 1 below.
TABLE 1
As can be seen from Table 1, the prepared silicon-carbon negative electrode material has excellent capacity performance, cycle performance, initial charge and discharge efficiency, low expansion performance and rate capability. The dual-carbon layer structure formed by the pore-forming agent and the binder plays a very key role, so that the pore-forming buffer expansion is realized, the low specific surface area is realized, the interface impedance is reduced, and the performances in all aspects are improved.
Test method
(1) The specific surface area of the material was measured using a Micromeritics TriStar II 3020 specific surface area meter from american microphone instruments;
(2) The cathode materials of the above examples and comparative examples were tested by a half-cell test method, wherein the cathode materials were prepared by mixing SBR (solid content: 50%) with CMC (CMC) with Super-p=95.5:2:1.5:1 (weight ratio), adding a proper amount of deionized water to prepare a slurry, coating the slurry on a copper foil, and drying in a vacuum drying oven for 12 hours to prepare a cathode sheet, wherein the electrolyte was 1M, liPF 6 Ec+dec+dmc=1:1:1, polypropylene microporous membrane as separator and counter electrode as lithium sheet, assembled into battery. Constant-current charge-discharge experiment is carried out in a LAND battery test system, the charge-discharge voltage is limited to 0.01-3.0V, a computer-controlled charge-discharge cabinet is used for collecting and controlling data, and a pole piece under full charge is measuredAnd (5) rebound.
The foregoing description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the technical scope of the present invention, so any minor modifications, equivalent changes and modifications made to the above embodiments according to the technical principles of the present invention are still within the scope of the technical solutions of the present invention.