Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing a method for preparing a precursor of a ternary cathode material by layered doping, so that cracks are prevented from being generated in the nucleation process of the precursor of the ternary cathode material, the high-temperature cycle performance and the rate capability of the ternary cathode material are improved, and the conductivity and the capacity retention rate of a lithium ion battery are improved.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows: a method for preparing a precursor of a ternary cathode material by layered doping comprises the following steps:
(1) preparing a metal salt solution, a precipitator solution, a complexing agent solution, a rubidium salt solution and a molybdenum salt solution;
(2) adding water, a complexing agent solution and a precipitator solution into a reaction kettle, stirring and keeping constant temperature to prepare a reaction kettle bottom solution;
(3) adding a metal salt solution, a precipitator solution, a complexing agent solution and a rubidium salt solution into a bottom solution of the reaction kettle, carrying out coprecipitation reaction, stopping feeding when the particle size of particles in the reaction kettle grows to be 0.5-3 mu m smaller than a target particle size, and concentrating and displacing a feed liquid containing rubidium ions in the reaction kettle;
(4) then, continuously adding a metal salt solution, a precipitator solution and a complexing agent solution into the reaction kettle, simultaneously adding a molybdenum salt solution for coprecipitation reaction until the average particle size of the particles grows to a target particle size, and stopping feeding to obtain a solution containing a precursor material;
(5) and (4) stirring the solution containing the precursor material obtained in the step (4), aging, washing, drying, screening and removing iron to obtain the precursor of the core-shell structure ternary cathode material.
Further, the metal salt solution is an aqueous solution containing nickel salt, cobalt salt and manganese salt, the molar ratio of the nickel salt to the cobalt salt to the manganese salt is 60-90: 5-20: 10-30, the total concentration of metal ions in the metal salt solution is 1-2 mol/L, and the nickel salt, the cobalt salt and the manganese salt are at least one of sulfate, nitrate and halogen salt.
Further, the precipitator solution is a sodium hydroxide solution with the concentration of 5-12 mol/L, the complexing agent solution is an ammonia water solution with the mass concentration of 12% -24%, the rubidium ion concentration in the rubidium salt solution is 0.1-1 mol/L, and the molybdenum ion concentration in the molybdenum salt solution is 0.1-1 mol/L.
Further, in the step (3) and the step (4), the reaction temperature is controlled to be 40-70 ℃, the pH value is 11.5-13, the ammonia concentration is 2-16 g/L, and the stirring speed is 300-600 rpm.
Further, the feeding amount of the metal salt solution is 20-500L/h, the feeding amount ratio of the rubidium salt solution to the metal salt solution is 1: 200-10000, and the feeding amount ratio of the molybdenum salt solution to the metal salt solution is 1: 200-10000.
Further, the average particle size of the particles in the step (3) is a particle size distribution D50 value, and the target particle size is 3-13 μm.
Further, the molecular formula of the precursor of the prepared ternary cathode material is as follows: nixCoyMn1-x-y(OH)2[Rb]m[Mo]nAnd m and n are doping amount, wherein x is more than or equal to 0.50 and less than or equal to 0.90, y is more than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 0.30, 0.05 and less than or equal to 1-x-y is less than or equal to 0.30, m is more than or equal to 0.0001 and less than or equal to 0.005, and n is more than or equal to 0.0001 and less than or equal to 0.005.
Further, in the step (3), the feed liquid containing rubidium ions in the reaction kettle is replaced by concentration.
The ternary cathode material is prepared by the method for preparing the precursor of the ternary cathode material by layered doping.
A lithium ion battery comprises the ternary cathode material.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the method for preparing the precursor of the ternary cathode material by layered doping prevents cracks from being generated in the nucleation process of the precursor of the ternary cathode material, improves the high-temperature cycle performance and the rate capability of the ternary cathode material, and simultaneously improves the conductivity and the capacity retention rate of the lithium ion battery, wherein the maximum capacity of the lithium ion battery is 192.5mah/g after 100 cycles of 1C rate cycle, and the maximum conductivity is 9.7 multiplied by 10-3The capacity retention rate is 92.68% at most after 100 cycles.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be further described with reference to the following examples.
Example 1:
adding pure water into a reaction kettle, heating to 60 ℃, adjusting the pH value of the prepared liquid alkali solution to 12.0, adding an ammonia water solution to prepare a base solution to be 4.5g/L, and operating stirring blades in the reaction kettle at a rotating speed of 260r/min to prepare the base solution for the coprecipitation reaction. Then, 1.98mol/L of nickel cobalt manganese solution (nickel cobalt manganese molar ratio: 67: 13: 20) was added at a rate of 300L/h, 32% of aqueous alkali solution was added at a rate of 185L/h, 21% of aqueous ammonia solution was added at a rate of 30L/h, 0.5mol/L of rubidium salt solution was added at a rate of 100ml/min using a peristaltic pump, and during the reaction, the pH was decreased at a rate of 0.05/h to 11.60 and then maintained, and after 7 hours before the reaction, 99.99% pure nitrogen was introduced at a rate of 3000L/h, and after 8 hours, compressed air was introduced at a rate of 500L/h. After 30 hours of coprecipitation reaction in a reaction kettle, the granularity D50 grows to 3 mu m, feeding is suspended, deionized water is added, residual rubidium ions are replaced by concentrated clear liquid, feeding is continued after 2 hours, a rubidium salt solution is changed into a molybdenum salt solution, the flow is unchanged, feeding is stopped when the particle D50 value grows to 4 mu m, and the total reaction time is 75 hours. And washing impurities, filtering, dehydrating and drying the ternary cathode material precursor liquid to obtain the layered doped ternary cathode material precursor.
Example 2:
adding pure water into a reaction kettle, heating to 60 ℃, adjusting the pH value of the prepared liquid alkali solution to 11.95, adding an ammonia water solution to prepare the base solution to be 5g/L, and operating stirring blades in the reaction kettle at the rotating speed of 260r/min to prepare the base solution for the coprecipitation reaction. Then, 1.98mol/L nickel-cobalt-manganese solution was added at a flow rate of 300L/h, 32% aqueous alkali solution was added at a flow rate of 185L/h, and 21% aqueous ammonia solution was added at a flow rate of 30L/h, 0.5mol/L rubidium salt solution was added at a flow rate of 200mL/min using a peristaltic pump, and when the reaction was carried out, the pH was maintained after the rate was decreased to 11.60 at a rate of 0.05/h, nitrogen gas having a purity of 99.99% was introduced at a flow rate of 3000L/h for 6 hours before the reaction, and compressed air was introduced at a flow rate of 500L/h after 7 hours. After the coprecipitation reaction for 27 hours in the reaction kettle, the granularity D50 grows to 3 mu m, feeding is suspended, deionized water is added, residual rubidium ions are replaced by concentrated clear liquid, feeding is continued after 2 hours, feeding is continued after 3 hours, a rubidium salt solution is changed into a molybdenum salt solution, the flow is unchanged, the machine is stopped when the granularity continues to grow to 3.6-3.7 mu m, and the total reaction time is 68 hours. And washing impurities, filtering, dehydrating and drying the ternary precursor slurry to obtain the layered doped ternary precursor.
Example 3:
adding pure water into a reaction kettle, heating to 60 ℃, adjusting the pH value of the prepared liquid alkali solution to 11.55, then adding an ammonia water solution to prepare the base solution to be 6.5g/L, and operating stirring blades in the reaction kettle at the rotating speed of 260r/min to prepare the base solution for the coprecipitation reaction. Then, 1.98mol/L (ratio: 83: 7: 10) of nickel-cobalt-manganese solution is added at a flow rate of 360L/h, 32% of aqueous alkali solution is added at a flow rate of 135L/h, 21% of aqueous ammonia solution is added at a flow rate of 25L/h, 0.5mol/L of rubidium salt solution is added at a flow rate of 150ml/min by using a peristaltic pump, when the reaction is carried out for 2h, the ph is maintained after being reduced to 11.40 at a rate of 0.05/h, and 3000L/h of nitrogen with a purity of 99.99% is introduced into the whole reaction period for protection. After 60 hours of coprecipitation reaction in a reaction kettle, when the D50 value of particles grows to 8 mu m, stopping feeding, adding deionized water, replacing residual rubidium ions by concentrating and discharging the clear solution, continuing feeding after waiting for 2 hours, changing the rubidium salt solution into 0.5mol/L molybdenum salt solution, keeping the flow unchanged, stopping feeding when the D50 value of particles in the reaction kettle grows to 10 mu m, and keeping the total reaction time at 80 hours. And washing impurities, filtering, dehydrating and drying the ternary precursor slurry to obtain the layered doped ternary precursor.
Comparative example 1: (undoped rubidium molybdenum, otherwise same as example 1)
Adding pure water into a reaction kettle, heating to 60 ℃, then adjusting the pH of the prepared liquid alkali solution to 12.0, then adding an ammonia water solution to adjust the base solution to 4.5g/L, and operating stirring blades in the reaction kettle at a rotating speed of 260r/min to prepare the base solution for the coprecipitation reaction. Then 1.98mol/L nickel-cobalt-manganese solution is added at the flow rate of 300L/h, 32% liquid caustic soda solution is added at the flow rate of 185L/h, 21% ammonia solution is added at the flow rate of 30L/h, when the reaction is carried out, the pH is reduced to 11.60 at the speed of 0.05/h and then is kept, nitrogen with the purity of 99.99% is introduced at the flow rate of 3000L/h in 7 hours before the reaction, and compressed air is introduced at the flow rate of 500L/h after 8 hours. After 98 hours of coprecipitation reaction in the reaction kettle, the machine is stopped when the granularity grows to 3.6 um. And washing impurities, filtering, dehydrating and drying the ternary precursor slurry to obtain the ternary precursor.
Comparative example 2: (otherwise, same example 1 was repeated except that concentration and replacement were not performed)
Adding pure water into a reaction kettle, heating to 60 ℃, adjusting the pH value of the prepared liquid alkali solution to 12.0, adding an ammonia water solution to prepare a base solution to be 4.5g/L, and operating stirring blades in the reaction kettle at a rotating speed of 260r/min to prepare the base solution for the coprecipitation reaction. Then, 1.98mol/L nickel-cobalt-manganese solution was added at a rate of 300L/h, 32% aqueous alkali solution was added at a rate of 185L/h, and 21% aqueous ammonia solution was added at a rate of 30L/h, and 0.5mol/L rubidium salt solution was added at a rate of 100ml/min using a peristaltic pump, and when the reaction was carried out, the ph was maintained after the rate was decreased to 11.60 at a rate of 0.05/h, nitrogen gas having a purity of 99.99% was introduced at a rate of 3000L/h for 7 hours before the reaction, and compressed air was introduced at a rate of 500L/h after 8 hours. After 30 hours of coprecipitation reaction in the reactor, the particle size D50 was grown to 3 μm, feeding of rubidium salt solution was suspended, feeding of molybdenum salt solution was stopped at the same flow rate, and feeding was stopped when the particle D50 value was grown to 4 μm, and the total reaction time was 75 hours. And washing impurities, filtering, dehydrating and drying the ternary cathode material precursor liquid to obtain the layered doped ternary cathode material precursor.
Comparative example 3: (otherwise same as example 1, rubidium doped and molybdenum not doped)
Adding pure water into a reaction kettle, heating to 60 ℃, adjusting the pH value of the prepared liquid alkali solution to 12.0, adding an ammonia water solution to prepare a base solution to be 4.5g/L, and operating stirring blades in the reaction kettle at a rotating speed of 260r/min to prepare the base solution for the coprecipitation reaction. Then, 1.98mol/L of nickel-cobalt-manganese solution was added at a rate of 300L/h, 32% of aqueous alkali solution was added at a rate of 185L/h, 21% of aqueous ammonia solution was added at a rate of 30L/h, 0.5mol/L of rubidium salt solution was added at a rate of 100ml/min by means of a peristaltic pump, and when the reaction was carried out, ph was lowered to 11.60 at a rate of 0.05/h and then maintained, nitrogen gas having a purity of 99.99% was fed at a rate of 3000L/h for 7 hours before the reaction, and compressed air was fed at a rate of 500L/h after 8 hours. The feed was stopped when the particle D50 value grew to 4 μm and the total reaction time was 75 h. And washing impurities, filtering, dehydrating and drying the ternary cathode material precursor liquid to obtain the layered doped ternary cathode material precursor.
Comparative example 4: otherwise same as example 1, with molybdenum doping, without rubidium doping)
Adding pure water into a reaction kettle, heating to 60 ℃, adjusting the pH value of the prepared liquid alkali solution to 12.0, adding an ammonia water solution to prepare a base solution to be 4.5g/L, and operating stirring blades in the reaction kettle at a rotating speed of 260r/min to prepare the base solution for the coprecipitation reaction. Then 1.98mol/L nickel-cobalt-manganese solution is added at the flow rate of 300L/h, 32% liquid alkali solution is added at the flow rate of 185L/h, 21% ammonia solution is added at the flow rate of 30L/h, 0.5mol/L molybdenum salt solution is added at the flow rate of 100ml/min by using a peristaltic pump, when the reaction is carried out, the ph is kept after the speed is reduced to 11.60 at the rate of 0.05/h, nitrogen with the purity of 99.99% is introduced at the flow rate of 3000L/h in 7 hours before the reaction, and compressed air is introduced at the flow rate of 500L/h after 8 hours. The feed was stopped when the particle D50 value grew to 4 μm and the total reaction time was 75 h. And washing impurities, filtering, dehydrating and drying the ternary cathode material precursor liquid to obtain the layered doped ternary cathode material precursor.
The electrochemical performance detection method comprises the following steps:
1. the precursors prepared in examples and comparative examples and lithium hydroxide were uniformly mixed in a molar ratio of M (Ni + Co + Mn) to M (li) of 1:1.03, then calcined at 450 ℃ for 4 hours, then ground and calcined at 750 ℃ for 20 hours, and finally ground to obtain positive electrode materials, which are respectively designated as a1, a2, A3, D1, D2, D3 and D4;
2. and (3) mixing the obtained positive electrode material according to the following ratio: conductive carbon: polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) ═ 90: 5: 5 preparing slurry, preparing a positive pole piece (the compaction density of the pole piece is 3.3g/cm2), and assembling the button cell 2025 by using a metal lithium piece as a negative electrode material;
3. with 1M LiPF6 EC: DEC: DMC 1: 1:1 (V%) is electrolyte, after three cycles of activation under 0.2C multiplying power, the electrolyte is cycled for 100 times under 0.2C multiplying power, the discharge capacity at the 1 st cycle and the discharge capacity at the 100 th cycle are respectively measured, and the capacity retention rate at the 100 th cycle is calculated;
4. the method comprises the steps of fixing four leads on a glass slide in sequence by adopting conductive silver adhesive, uniformly coating a pasty lithium ion battery anode material on the glass slide, then carrying out vacuum drying, obtaining a film layer on the glass slide, measuring current I by adopting an ammeter, measuring voltage U by adopting a voltmeter, and then calculating the conductivity sigma of the lithium ion battery anode material according to a formula sigma IL/US.
TABLE 1 electrochemical Properties of positive electrode materials obtained in examples and comparative examples