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GB2084789A
GB2084789A GB8125181A GB8125181A GB2084789A GB 2084789 A GB2084789 A GB 2084789A GB 8125181 A GB8125181 A GB 8125181A GB 8125181 A GB8125181 A GB 8125181A GB 2084789 A GB2084789 A GB 2084789A
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    • HELECTRICITY
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    • H01MPROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
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The invention provides a galvanic cell comprising a negative lithium electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte and a reducible positive electrode, wherein the electrolyte is a solution of a conducting salt in a mixture of diglycol dimethyl ether and ethylene sulphite. Preferably a 1 molar solution of one of the salts LiPF6, LiClO4 and LiAsF6 in a mixture of diglycol dimethyl ether and ethylene sulphite is used as the electrolyte. The high boiling points of the solvent components (160 DEG C and 173 DEG C) ensure, on account of the low vapour pressure, that the cell is safe to handle. The electrolyte conductivity is almost 10<2> OMEGA <-1>.cm<-1>. The stability of the electrolyte with respect to the electrode materials is manifested in the good storability of the cell. CrOx, Bi2O3, Pb3O4 and MnO2 are suitable as positive electrode materials.

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SPECIFICATION Galvanic cell The invention relates to a galvanic cell of the type comprising a negative lithium electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a reducible positive electrode.
Galvanic cells of the type referred to above and in particular with positive electrodes, whose reducible consituent is chromium oxide, CrOx (where x = 2 to 2.9), or bismuth trioxide, Bi203, or managanese dioxide, are, on account of their voltage behaviour, a suitable replacementof cells of the known Leclanché type in instrument batteries. One form of such Li/CrO,, Li/Bi2 03, Li/Pb304 or Li/MnO2 cells is the handy button-type cell. By stacking these cells on top of one another and encasing them in a shrinkdown plastics tubing, batteries are obtained whose discharge voltages are a multiple of approximately 1.5 V, corresponding to a Li/Bi203 cell, or a multiple of approximately 3 V, corresponding to the CrOx cell.
Galvanic cells of the type referred to are known from German Offenlegungsschriften (DE-A) 25 16 704, 27 26 380 and 25 35 468. These cells are characterised in general by a constant voltage state and good storability, which require mutually compatible electrolyte and electrode materials. Solutions of various salts in mixtures of the solvents propylene carbonate and 1,2dimethoxyethane, and also with tetrahydrofuran as an additional mixture component, are disclosed as cell electrolyte in the specifications.
Of these solvents dimethoxyethane has a relatively low boiling point of 84.8 C, which is disadvantageous insofar as explosive vapour mixtures can be formed during handling and processing. In the case of propylene carbonate there is alos a disadvantageous tendency to undergo a degree of polymerisation, especially at elevated temperatures, and this results in deposits being formed on the lithium electrode.
An object of the invention is to provide a cell of the type referred to wherein the electrolyte comprises only solvents having a boiling point of more than 100 C and the electrolyte has such a good electrical conductivity that the cell can aslo withstand pulse loads with relatively high currents. Such pulse loads with relatively high currents occur for example when a dial or an alarm device is to be actuated in an electronic clock, which actuation is associated with a very much larger current input than the normal continuous load current.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a galvanic cell comprising a negative lithium electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte and a reducible positive electrode, wherein the electrolyte is a solution of a conducting salt in a mixture of diglycol dimethyl ether and ethylene sulphite.
The conducting salt is preferably present in the electrolyte at a concentration of approximately 1M.
The conductivity of approximately 1 molar solutions of any one of the salts LiAsF6, Lilo4, LiBF4, LiPF6, LiCF3SO3 and LiBr in either diglycol dimethyl ether or in ethylene sulphite is approximately about 4 X 10 - 32- 1 X cm-1. It has surprisingly been found that this conductivity is roughly doubled if the individual solvents are replaced by a mixture thereof.
Conductivity values for some examples of electrolyte solutions for cells according to the invention are given in Table 1 below. The solutions were as follow: 1. 10 ml diglycol dimethyl ether + 10 ml ethylene sulphite + 2.0 g Lilo4 2. 5 ml diglycol dimethyl ether + 15 ml ethylene sulphite + 4.0 g LiAsF6 3. 10 ml diglycol dimethyl ether + 10 ml ethylene sulphite + 3.0 g LiBF4 4. 5 ml diglycol dimethyl ether + 15 ml ethylene sulphite + 4.0 g LIPS, 5. 6 ml dimethoxyethane + 14 ml propylene carbonate + 2.0 g Lilo4 Electrolyte No. 5 is the known electrolyte mentioned above and serves as a comparison.
TABLE 1 Conductivity Electrolyte Water content (# X cm) - > c 103 No. ppm at 22 C 1 18.3 9.8 2 22.2 9.5 3 50.7 7.2 4 26.3 9.2 5 13.0 11.3 Referring to Table 1 all the conductivity values found are similar. Larger differences are found however in the water contents, which are partly derived from the solvents and partly from the conducting salts, these involving varying degrees of difficulty in drying.
An inherent advantage of the invention is shown by electrolytes Nos. 1 to 4 to be the fact that the good conductivity values are achieved with mixtures of solvents which, unlike propylene carbonate, do not tend to polymerise, and which are liquid over a very wide temperature range and have high boiling points, especially compared with dimethoxyethane.
The freezing points and boiling points of the solvents are as follows: Diglycol dimethyl ether Freezing point: - 68"C Boiling point: 1 60 C Ethylene sulphite Freezing point: - 11 'C Boiling point: 1 73'C The dangers inherent in solvents of low boiling points are thereby obviated by the present invention. Furthermore, the losses as a result of diffusion through plastics cell seals is less in the case of high boiling liquids than in the case of the more readily volatile solvents, especially at higher temperatures.
Moreover, the electrolyte solutions according to Examples 1 to 4 can be cooled to temperatures not exceeding - 1 5'C without crystals separating out.
It was found that other electrolyte solvents with boiling points above 1 00 C, including dimethyl formamide (153"C), dimethyl sulphite (126"C), 2-methyl-2-oxazoline (1 10'C), 1 methyl-2-pyrrolidone (205 C), and 1 ,4-thioxane (147"C), are not resistant to lithium or have too low conductivities and are thus unsuitable for electrolyte solutions in cells according to the invention.
LiPF6, LiAsF6 and Lilo4 are preferred as conducting salts in cells according to the invention, preferably in a concentration of 1 mole/l. Before use they are preferably dried as follows in a drying gun under a vacuum: LiPF6 72 hat 1 20 C LiAsF6 72 h at 90 C Lilo4 72 h at 205 C The electrolyte solvents according to the invention are preferably distilled under reduced pressure for the purposes of purification. A first runnings and a residue of 20% by volume are in each case discarded. The subsequent drying of diglycol dimethyl ether is carried out with active aluminium oxide and of ethylene sulphite with a 4 A molecular sieve.Prior treatment of a small proportion of the ethylene sulphite with Al203 may however be advantageous because traces of SO2 are thereby formed, and the S02 forms in the cell a passivating covering layer on the lithium electrode and thereby contributes to improving the storage properties of the cell.
Diglycol dimethyl ether and ethylene sulphite are preferably mixed in a volume ratio of about 1:1 to 1:3 in the electrolyte solution for cells according to the invention.
In electrical tests involving the experimental Li/CrOx cells of dimensions 11.6 X 3.6 mm, which were provided with electrolytes Nos. 1 to 5 described above, pulse loads were applied which were comparable to the loads during operation of the "backlight" of a LCD clock. The pulse currents each of 10 seconds' duration were amplified in the sequence 2.3 mA/cm2, 3.5 mA/cm2 and 4.7 mA/cm2. The cells were subjected to this treatment in the following stages: (a) new state (b) after 50% capacity discharge (c) after 90% capacity discharge.
The drawing shows in a diagram the minimal voltages U(V), which were established at the end of a pulse, and the d.c. resistances Rj (#) calculated from the voltage drop, produced for the three aforementioned discharge states (a), (b) and (c). Compared with the known electrolyte No. 5, the electrolyte Nos. 1 to 4 do not show any significant reduction in conductivity, which generally runs in parallel with an increase in boiling point and to this extent would be expected, or at least do not exhibit a reduction of such an amount as to influence the discharge behaviour of the cell. Thus, the advantages of the electrolyte for cells according to the invention, which are namely the low vapour pressure and the stability with respect to the electrode materials, are not offset by disadvantages in other respects.
It was even found that cells with the electrolytes Nos. 1 and 2 behaved, after 3 months' storage at 60 C, more favourably than a comparison cell with the known electrolyte No. 5 since their internal resistances (d.c. resistances Rj) had risen much less compared with the values in the new state, and also the impedance, measured at 1000 Hz, was clearly lower with electrolytes Nos. 1 and 2.
This fact can be seen from Table 2.
TABLE 2 Electrolyte No.
1 2 5 Impedance (1000 Hz) 90 64 174 d.c. resistance at 10 seconds 2.3 mA/cm2 391 350 410 at 10 seconds 3.5 mA/cm2 300 261 379 at 10 seconds 4.7 mA/cm2 250 219 332

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1. A galvanic cell comprising a negative lithium electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte and a reducible positive electrode, wherein the electrolyte is a solution of a conducting salt in a mixture of diglycol dimethyl ether and ethylene sulphite.
2. A galvanic cell according to claim 1, wherein the said conducting salt of the electrolyte is LiPF6, Lilo4 or LiAsF6.
3. A galvanic cell according to claim 2, wherein said conducting salt is present in the electrolyte at a concentration of 0.5 to 1.5 M.
4. A galvanic cell according to any preceding claim, wherein the diglycol dimethyl ether and ethylene sulphite are present in a volume ratio of 0.8:1 to 1:3 preferably 0.9:1 to 1:3.
5. A galvanic cell according to any preceding claim, wherein the positive electrode is of CrOx (where x is 2 to 2.9), By202, Pb304 or Mono2.
6. A galvanic cell according to any preceding claim, wherein the diglycol dimethyl ether and the ethylene sulphite have been distilled under reduced pressure.
7. A galvanic cell according to claim 6, wherein the diglycol dimethyl ether has been dried, after the distillation, with active aluminium oxide.
8. A galvanic cell according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the ethylene sulphite has been dried, after the distillation, with a molecular sieve.
9. A galvanic cell according to any preceding claim, wherein at least a portion of the ethylene sulphite has been treated with Awl203.
10. A galvanic cell according to claim 1, wherein the electrolyte is substantially as described herein as electrolyte No. 1, 2, 3 or 4.
11. A galvanic cell according to claim 10, being a Li/CrOx cell.
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