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• the present disclosure relates to compositions useful as cathodes for lithium-ion batteries.
• cathode compositions particularly 03 type structured lithium transition metal oxides including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn).
• the composition has an 03 type structure.
• the composition has an 03 type structure.
• the 03 type structured lithium transition metal oxides deliver the highest volumetric energy at 1C rate between 2.5-4.7V at 30°C.
• Figure 1 is a graph of composited energy at 1C rate between 2.5 -4.7V vs Li/Li+ at 30°C vs. Co and Ni/Mn for the samples of Table 1.
• Figures 2A-2C are cross section contour plots of composited volumetric energy at 1C and Li/M values of 1.03, 1.115 and 1.2, respectively, vs. Co and Ni/Mn.
• High energy lithium ion batteries require higher volumetric energy electrode materials than conventional lithium ion batteries.
• metal alloy anode materials into batteries, because such anode materials have high reversible capacity (much higher than conventional graphite), cathode materials of commensurately high capacity are desirable.
• LiCo0 2 has been widely used in commercial lithium ion batteries. LiCo0 2 , however, cannot cycle well beyond 4.5V and has other drawbacks associated with Co dissolution.
• the lithium transition metal oxide compositions of the present disclosure may include Ni, Mn, and Co.
• compositions of the preceding embodiments may be in the form of a single phase having an 03 crystal structure.
• the compositions may not undergo a phase
• the present disclosure also features lithium- ion batteries incorporating these compositions in combination with an anode and an electrolyte.
• the phrase"03 type structure refers to a lithium metal oxide composition having a crystal structure consisting of alternating layers of lithium atoms, transition metal atoms and oxygen atoms.
• the transition metal atoms are located in octahedral sites between oxygen layers, making a M02 sheet, and the M02 sheets are separated by layers of the alkali metals such as Li. They are classified in this way: the structures of layered AxM02 bronzes into groups (P2, 02, 06, P3, 03).
• the letter indicates the site coordination of the alkali metal A (prismatic (P) or octahedral (O)) and the number gives the number of M02 sheets (M) transition metal) in the unit cell.
• the 03 type structure is generally described in Zhonghua Lu, R. A. Donaberger, and J. R. Dahn, Superlattice Ordering of Mn, Ni, and Co in Layered Alkali Transition Metal Oxides with P2, P3, and 03 Structures, Chem. Mater. 2000, 12, 3583-3590, which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
• a-NaFe0 2 (R-3m) structure is an 03 type structure (super lattice ordering in the transition metal layers often reduces its symmetry group to C2/m).
• the terminology 03 structure is also frequently used referring to the layered oxygen structure found in LiCo0 2 .
• compositions of the present disclosure have the formulae set forth above.
• the formulae themselves reflect certain criteria that have been discovered and are useful for maximizing performance.
• the compositions adopt an 03 crystal structure featuring layers generally arranged in the sequence lithium-oxygen-metal-oxygen-lithium. This crystal structure is retained when the composition is incorporated in a lithium-ion battery and cycled for at least 40 full charge-discharge cycles at 30°C and a final capacity of above 130 mAh/g using a discharge current of 30 mA/g, rather than transforming into a spinel-type crystal structure under these conditions.
• the present disclosure further relates to methods of making the above-described cathode compositions.
• the cathode compositions of the present disclosure may be synthesized by jet milling or by combining precursors of the metal elements (e.g., hydroxides, nitrates, and the like), followed by heating to generate the cathode composition. Heating may be conducted in air at temperatures of at least about 600°C or at least 800°C. The ability to conduct the heating process in air may be desirable because it obviates the need and associated expense of maintaining an inert atmosphere.
• the cathode composition and selected additives such as binders (e.g., polymeric binders), conductive diluents (e.g., carbon), fillers, adhesion promoters, thickening agents for coating viscosity modification such as carboxymethylcellulose or other additives known by those skilled in the art can be mixed in a suitable coating solvent such as water or N-methylpyrrolidinone (NMP) to form a coating dispersion or coating mixture.
• binders e.g., polymeric binders
• conductive diluents e.g., carbon
• fillers e.g., fillers, adhesion promoters, thickening agents for coating viscosity modification such as carboxymethylcellulose or other additives known by those skilled in the art
• NMP N-methylpyrrolidinone
• the coating dispersion or coating mixture can be mixed thoroughly and then applied to a foil current collector by any appropriate coating technique such as knife coating, notched bar coating, dip coating, spray coating, electrospray coating, or gravure coating.
• the current collectors can be thin foils of conductive metals such as, for example, copper, aluminum, stainless steel, or nickel foil.
• the slurry can be coated onto the current collector foil and then allowed to dry in air followed by drying in a heated oven, typically at about 80 C C to about 300°C for about an hour to remove all of the solvent.
• the present disclosure further relates to lithium-ion batteries.
• the cathode compositions of the present disclosure can be combined with an anode and an electrolyte to form a lithium-ion battery.
• suitable anodes include lithium metal, carbonaceous materials, silicon alloy compositions, and lithium alloy compositions.
• Exemplary carbonaceous materials can include synthetic graphites such as mesocarbon microbeads (MCMB) (available from E-One Moli/Energy Canada Ltd., Vancouver, BC), SLP30 (available from TimCal Ltd., Bodio Switzerland), natural graphites and hard carbons.
• Useful anode materials can also include alloy powders or thin films. Such alloys may include electrochemically active components such as silicon, tin, aluminum, gallium, indium, lead, bismuth, and zinc and may also comprise electrochemically inactive components such as iron, cobalt, transition metal silicides and transition metal aluminides.
• the lithium-ion batteries of the present disclosure can contain an electrolyte.
• Representative electrolytes can be in the form of a solid, liquid or gel.
• Exemplary solid electrolytes include polymeric media such as polyethylene oxide, polytetrafluoroethylene, polyvinylidene fluoride, fluorine-containing copolymers, polyacrylonitrile, combinations thereof and other solid media that will be familiar to those skilled in the art.
• liquid electrolytes examples include ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate, ethyl-methyl carbonate, butylene carbonate, vinylene carbonate, fluoroethylene carbonate, fluoropropylene carbonate, .gamma.-butylrolactone, methyl difluoroacetate, ethyl difluoroacetate, dimethoxyethane, diglyme (bis(2-methoxyethyl) ether), tetrahydrofuran, dioxolane, combinations thereof and other media that will be familiar to those skilled in the art.
• the electrolyte can be provided with a lithium electrolyte salt.
• the electrolyte can include other additives that will familiar to those skilled in the art.
• lithium-ion batteries of the present disclosure can be made by taking at least one each of a positive electrode and a negative electrode as described above and placing them in an electrolyte.
• a microporous separator such as CELGARD 2400 microporous material, available from Celgard LLC, Charlotte, N.C., may be used to prevent the contact of the negative electrode directly with the positive electrode.
• Lithium metal oxide material was dispersed in N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) solvent (from Aldrich Chemical Co.) together with Super P conductive carbon black (from MMM Carbon, Belgium) and polyvinylidine difluoride (PVDF) (from Aldrich Chemical Co.) to form a cathode dispersion composed of 90 weight percent oxide, 5 weight percent Super P and 5 weight percent of PVDF.
• NMP N-methylpyrrolidone
• PVDF polyvinylidine difluoride
• the dispersion was coated on aluminum foil using a stainless steel coating bar, and dried at 110°C for 4 hours to form a composite cathode coating.
• the active cathode loading was about 8mg/cm 2 .
• the cathode material was incorporated into 2325 coin cell half cells in a conventional manner with metallic lithium foil as the counter electrode.
• One layer of CELGARD 2325 microporous membrane (PP/PE/PP) (25 micron thickness, from Celgard, Charlotte, North Carolina) was used to separate the cathode and Li foil.
• Lithium hexafluorophosphate LiPF6
• the coin cells were cycled using a Maccor series 2000 Cell cycler (available from Maccor Inc. Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) at a temperature of 30°C between 2.5 V and 4.7 V vs. Li/Li+.
• the composited volumetric energy of a composition is defined as 75% of the gravimetric energy (energy/active mass) times the true density (0.75(gravimetric energy X true density)) (maintaining a porosity of 25% in the electrode).
• the energy retention (Energy vs cycle number) of each cathode for the first 40 cycles can be fitted with a linear line. The slope indicates the fading. The flatter curve indicates better fade and therefore higher slope.
• the highest composited volumetric energy at 1C rate among the sintering conditions and Li/M ratios was selected, and its composited volumetric energy at 1C (from 4.7V to 2.5V at 30oC) was plotted in a contour plot vs.
• Ni/Mn and Co using commercial Software Surfer 8 with Kriging Gridding method (from Golden Software, Inc) (shown in Fig.1).
• two sets of composition ranges were observed that deliver the highest volumetric energy at 1C rate between 2.5-4.7V at 30°C: (i) (Ni/Mn ⁇ 1.25; Co ⁇ 0.2); and (ii) (Ni/Mn ⁇ 0.7;Co ⁇ 0.05).

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