阅读说明：本技术 一种改性高镍三元正极材料的制备方法 (Preparation method of modified high-nickel ternary cathode material ) 是由 童汇 毛高强 郭学益 喻万景 田庆华 丁治英 訚硕 王一乔 李魁 姚渝 姚赢赢 于 2021-09-07 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种改性高镍三元正极材料的制备方法：将镍钴锰氢氧化物前驱体与锂源、镁源混合均匀后,进行两段式烧结,得到镁掺杂的三元高镍正极材料；将镁掺杂的三元高镍正极材料分散于有机溶剂中,然后加入钒源和锂源搅拌均匀,升温蒸干,干燥、高温烧结,得到钒酸锂包覆的镁掺杂高镍三元正极材料。本发明的改性高镍三元正极材料中,通过镁离子掺杂和快离子导体包覆双重修饰改性处理的高镍三元正极材料,可以协同提高材料的循环性能和倍率性能。(The invention discloses a preparation method of a modified high-nickel ternary cathode material, which comprises the following steps: uniformly mixing the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor with a lithium source and a magnesium source, and then performing two-stage sintering to obtain a magnesium-doped ternary high-nickel positive electrode material; dispersing the magnesium-doped ternary high-nickel positive electrode material in an organic solvent, adding a vanadium source and a lithium source, uniformly stirring, heating to evaporate, drying, and sintering at high temperature to obtain the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary positive electrode material. In the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material, the high-nickel ternary cathode material subjected to double modification treatment by doping magnesium ions and coating the fast ion conductor can be used for synergistically improving the cycle performance and the rate performance of the material.)

1. The preparation method of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material is characterized by comprising a high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate, wherein magnesium is doped in the high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate, a lithium vanadate coating layer is coated on the surface of the high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate, the mass of the lithium vanadate coating layer accounts for 1% -10% of that of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate, and the magnesium doping amount accounts for 1% -5% of that of transition metals in the high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate, and the preparation method comprises the following steps:

(1) pumping the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed salt solution into a reaction kettle filled with an ammonia water solution, introducing a protective gas, pumping a complexing agent and a precipitator solution into the reaction kettle, stirring for coprecipitation reaction, aging, filtering, washing and drying to obtain a nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor;

(2) uniformly mixing the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor with a lithium source and a magnesium source, and then performing two-stage sintering to obtain a magnesium-doped ternary high-nickel positive electrode material;

(3) dispersing the magnesium-doped ternary high-nickel positive electrode material in an organic solvent, then adding a vanadium source and a lithium source, uniformly stirring, and heating and evaporating to dryness;

(4) and (4) drying and sintering the powder obtained in the step (3) at a high temperature to obtain the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material.

2. The preparation method according to claim 1, wherein in the step (1), the total molar concentration of nickel, cobalt and manganese ions in the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed salt solution is 0.1-3.0 mol/L; the feeding speed of the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed salt solution pumped into the reaction kettle is 80-120 mL/h; the complexing agent is ammonia water solution, and the precipitator is one or more of sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide or lithium hydroxide; the molar concentration of the precipitant solution is 1.0-7.0 mol/L; the volume ratio of the ammonia water solution, the precipitant solution and the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed solution in the reaction kettle is 0.1-10: 1-2: 1.

3. The preparation method according to claim 2, wherein in the step (1), the protective gas is nitrogen or argon atmosphere, ammonia water with a mass concentration of 25-28% is adopted to adjust the ammonia water concentration in the reaction system to be 0.1-5.0 mol/L, and a precipitant solution is adopted to adjust the pH value of the reaction system to be 10-12; in the coprecipitation reaction process, the stirring speed is 800-1200 r/min, the temperature is 30-60 ℃, and the time is 12-48 h.

4. The preparation method according to claim 1, wherein in the step (2), the molar ratio of the total moles of nickel, cobalt and manganese elements in the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor to the moles of lithium in the lithium source is 1: 1.02-1.10; the molar ratio of the total mole of nickel, cobalt and manganese elements in the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor to the mole of magnesium in the magnesium source is 1: 0.01-0.1; the lithium source is lithium hydroxide monohydrate and/or lithium carbonate; the magnesium source is one or more of magnesium carbonate, magnesium acetate and magnesium chloride.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the step (2), the two-stage sintering is: heating to 350-550 ℃ at a heating rate of 1-10 ℃/min, sintering for 2-8 h, heating to 550-1000 ℃ at a heating rate of 1-10 ℃/min, and sintering for 8-20 h.

6. The preparation method according to claim 1, wherein in the step (3), the vanadium source is one or more of vanadyl acetylacetonate, vanadium acetylacetonate and ammonium metavanadate; the volume ratio of the mass of the magnesium-doped ternary high-nickel anode material to the organic solvent is 0.01-0.1: 1-3, and the unit of the ratio is g/mL; the mass ratio of the generation amount of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material to the generation amount of lithium vanadate is 1: 0.01-0.1; the ultrasonic power in the dispersion process is 30-60 kHz, and the ultrasonic time is 0.5-2 h; the speed of the stirring process is 200-500 r/min, and the stirring time is 1-3 h; the temperature for heating and drying is 50-80 ℃.

7. The preparation method according to claim 1, wherein in the step (4), the drying temperature is 70-110 ℃ and the drying time is 1-5 h; the high-temperature sintering temperature is 600-900 ℃, and the sintering time is 4-6 h.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the high nickel ternary positive electrode material matrix has a chemical formula of LiNi_xCo_yMn_zO₂Wherein x is more than 0.6 and less than 0.9, y is more than 0.05 and less than 0.2, and z is more than 0.05 and less than 0.2; the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material is spherical; the particle size of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material is 8-10 mu m; the thickness of the lithium vanadate coating layer is 4-6 nm.

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the field of lithium ion batteries, and particularly relates to a preparation method of a modified high-nickel ternary cathode material.

Background

High nickel ternary positive electrode material Li (Ni)_xCo_yMn_1-x-y)O₂The (NCM) has the advantages of high specific capacity, good rate capability, relatively low cost and the like, and is considered to be one of the anode materials of the power lithium ion battery with the most application prospect. However, the high-nickel ternary cathode material has the problems of large surface activity, poor cycle performance, unstable structure and the like, and the stability of the high-nickel ternary cathode material can be improved to a certain extent through element doping and surface layer modification, and the electrochemical performance of the material is further improved.

Patent document CN103794753A discloses a lithium ion battery composite positive electrode material and a preparation method thereof, in which a layer of uniform vanadium oxide is coated on the surface of the lithium ion battery positive electrode material, the contact area between the positive electrode material and the electrolyte is reduced by the vanadium oxide layer, and side reactions caused by direct contact between the positive electrode material and the electrolyte are suppressed. In the experimental process, the method relates to the addition of an aqueous solution dissolved with ammonium metavanadate into the anode material, the performance of the anode material can be seriously influenced by the water-containing environment, particularly for the nickel-rich material, the material structure can be damaged by water, and the humidity of the nickel-rich material is controlled in the coating process and is generally carried out in the anhydrous environment. The method aims to utilize vanadium oxide after ammonia metavanadate is decomposed by heating as a coating layer, and has the advantages of wide range of given sintering temperature, complex decomposed product components, no obvious guiding significance for coating the anode material with the vanadium oxide, high temperature in the coating process, high energy consumption and no contribution to industrial application.

Patent document CN104638259A discloses a method for improving cycle performance of lithium nickel manganese oxide lithium ion cathode material, which adopts a solid phase method to synthesize lithium nickel manganese oxide, and modifies the surface of the material with lithium vanadate. However, the method adopts a solid phase method for synthesis, and the synthesized nickel manganese oxide precursor has uneven distribution, different particle sizes and no obvious regular morphology, which seriously affects the electrochemical performance of the anode material synthesized in the later period. In the method, the precursor lithium and the vanadium source are sintered at high temperature at the same time, however, the coating temperature of the vanadium oxide cannot be completely matched with the sintering temperature of the precursor lithium, the structure of the base material may be damaged under the same sintering system, and the sintering step is easy to deeply diffuse the material and cannot realize uniform coating of the surface layer. In addition, in the method, PFG is used as a dispersing agent, gas is formed in PEG and discharged in the high-temperature sintering process, holes can be formed in a coating layer, the formed coating layer is loose and porous, electrolyte is easy to permeate in the circulating process, and the electrolyte is in contact with a positive electrode material to generate side reaction, so that the electrochemical performance of the material is influenced.

CN112349905A discloses a method for coating a lithium ion battery positive electrode material with a nanosheet-shaped fast ion conductor layer and an aluminum compound layer, and double-layer coating may make the coating layer too thick, which may reduce the lithium ion deintercalation kinetics performance, and further reduce the specific discharge capacity of the material. In addition, when the nano-flake fast ion conductor coating layer is prepared, the positive electrode material is added into deionized water for coating, which has great influence on the performance of the material. In addition, the method adopts a solid phase method to prepare the aluminum compound coating layer, the aluminum compound coating layer is not directly sintered into a lithium vanadate coating layer with a stable structure after coating, but the aluminum outer layer is continuously coated by the solid phase method, and the structure of a dried nano flaky coating object can be damaged to a certain extent in the solid phase method coating process.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to overcome the defects and shortcomings in the background technology and provide a preparation method of a modified high-nickel ternary cathode material.

In order to solve the technical problems, the technical scheme provided by the invention is as follows:

a preparation method of a modified high-nickel ternary cathode material comprises a high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate, wherein magnesium is doped in the high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate, and a lithium vanadate coating layer is coated on the surface of the high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate; the mass of the lithium vanadate coating layer accounts for 1% -10% of that of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material matrix, the doping amount of magnesium accounts for 1% -5% of that of the transition metal, and the preparation method comprises the following steps:

(1) pumping the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed salt solution into a reaction kettle filled with an ammonia water solution, pumping a complexing agent and a precipitator solution into the reaction kettle under the condition of introducing a protective atmosphere, stirring for carrying out a coprecipitation reaction, and aging, filtering, washing and drying to obtain a nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor;

(2) uniformly mixing the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor with a lithium source and a magnesium source, and then performing two-stage sintering to obtain a magnesium-doped ternary high-nickel cathode material substrate;

(3) dispersing the magnesium-doped ternary high-nickel positive electrode material matrix in an organic solvent, then adding a vanadium source and a lithium source, uniformly stirring, heating and evaporating to dryness;

(4) and (4) drying and sintering the powder obtained in the step (3) at a high temperature to obtain the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material.

In the above preparation method, preferably, in the step (1), in the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed salt solution, the molar ratio of nickel, cobalt and manganese is 0.6-0.9: 0.05-0.2, and the total molar concentration of nickel, cobalt and manganese ions is 0.1-3.0 mol/L, and more preferably 1.5-2.5 mol/L; the concentration of metal ions in the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed salt solution can not be too low, otherwise, the subsequent precipitation process is not facilitated, the precipitation time is longer, and the production efficiency is not facilitated to be improved; the concentration of metal ions should not be too high, otherwise complete dissolution of the metal salt is not favored.

Preferably, in the step (1), the feeding speed of the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed salt solution pumped into the reaction kettle is 80-120 mL/h, more preferably 90-110 mL/h, if the feeding speed is too fast, the pH variation range is large, so that the precipitant is difficult to effectively precipitate metal ions, the formation and the growth of reaction crystal nuclei are not controlled, if the feeding speed is too slow, particles are easy to agglomerate, and meanwhile, the production efficiency is not improved.

Preferably, in the step (1), the molar concentration of the hydroxide precipitant solution is 1.0-7.0 mol/L, and more preferably 4.0-6.0 mol/L; the volume ratio of the ammonia water solution, the hydroxide precipitator solution and the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed solution in the reaction kettle is 0.1-10: 1-2: 1, and crystal grain formation and crystal growth in the crystallization process are facilitated under the feeding proportion.

Preferably, in the step (1), the molar concentration of the ammonia water solution is 0.1-5.0 mol/L; if the molar concentration of the aqueous ammonia solution is too low, it is difficult to completely complex the metal ions, and if the molar concentration of the aqueous ammonia solution is too high, it is not favorable for the metal ions to form hydroxide precipitates.

Preferably, in the step (1), the complexing agent is an ammonia water solution, and the hydroxide precipitator is one or more of sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide or lithium hydroxide.

Preferably, in the step (1), ammonia water with the mass concentration of 25-28% is used for adjusting the reaction system so as to keep the concentration of the ammonia water at 0.1-5.0 mol/L.

Preferably, in the step (1), the pH value of the reaction system is adjusted to 10-12 by using a hydroxide precipitator solution. At this pH, it is more advantageous to control the particle growth rate.

Preferably, in the step (1), the protective atmosphere is nitrogen or argon, the stirring speed in the coprecipitation reaction process is 800-1200 r/min, the temperature is 30-60 ℃, more preferably 40-50 ℃, and the time is 12-48 h, more preferably 30-50 h. If the stirring speed is too slow, primary particles are likely to agglomerate, and if the stirring speed is too fast, grown crystals are likely to be broken.

Preferably, in the step (1), the aging temperature is 30-60 ℃ (more preferably 40-50 ℃) for 8-24 h. The aging process can replace anions such as sulfate radicals in the material and is beneficial to the uniformity of the particle surface. If the aging time is too short, it is difficult to ensure the ion exchange of anions, which also affects the subsequent washing process, and if the aging time is too long, it is not favorable for production application and uniformity of material surface. The aging temperature is kept consistent with the temperature of the coprecipitation reaction, which is beneficial to the uniform dispersion and non-agglomeration of materials and ensures that primary particles grow into secondary particles uniformly.

Preferably, in the step (1), the drying temperature is 80-100 ℃ and the drying time is 12-24 h. If the temperature is too low or the time is too short, the material is difficult to dry, and if the temperature is too high or the time is too long, other side reactions are generated on the surface of the material, so that the performance of the material is influenced, and the long period is not favorable for industrial production.

Preferably, in the step (1), the nickel-cobalt-manganese mixed salt solution refers to a mixed solution of soluble nickel salt, soluble cobalt salt and soluble manganese salt, wherein the soluble nickel salt is one or more of nickel sulfate, nickel nitrate, nickel acetate or nickel chloride; the soluble cobalt salt is one or more of cobalt sulfate, cobalt nitrate, cobalt acetate or cobalt chloride; the soluble manganese salt is one or more of manganese sulfate, manganese nitrate, manganese acetate or manganese chloride.

In the preparation method, preferably, in the step (2), the molar ratio of the total mole of nickel, cobalt and manganese elements in the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor to the mole of lithium in the lithium source is 1: 1.02-1.10; the molar ratio of the total mole of nickel, cobalt and manganese elements in the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor to the mole of magnesium in the magnesium source is 1: 0.01-0.1; the two-stage sintering is as follows: the method comprises the steps of firstly heating to 350-550 ℃ (preferably 400-500 ℃) at a heating rate of 1-10 ℃/min (preferably 3-7 ℃/min), sintering for 2-8 h (preferably 3-6 h), then heating to 550-1000 ℃ (preferably 600-900 ℃) at a heating rate of 1-10 ℃/min (preferably 3-7 ℃/min), and sintering for 8-20 h (more preferably 10-16 h). In the two-section type temperature rise sintering process, the temperature of the second section of sintering is higher than that of the first section of sintering. In the first stage of sintering process, decomposition reaction of the precursor and the lithium source mainly occurs, and in the second stage of sintering process, combination reaction of the precursor and the oxide decomposed by the lithium source under the oxygen atmosphere mainly occurs. If the sintering temperature is too high or the sintering time is too long, the material is easy to agglomerate, the capacity is difficult to release in the charging and discharging process, and if the sintering temperature is too low or the sintering time is too short, the required morphology is difficult to form, and the electrochemical performance is influenced. If the temperature rise rate is too fast, it is difficult to ensure sufficient reaction of the material, especially to influence the diffusion of lithium ions into the material structure, and if the temperature rise rate is too slow, it is not favorable for industrial production.

In the above preparation method, preferably, in the step (2), the lithium source is lithium hydroxide monohydrate and/or lithium carbonate; the magnesium source is one or more of magnesium carbonate, magnesium acetate and magnesium chloride;

preferably, in the preparation method, in the step (3), the volume ratio of the mass of the magnesium-doped ternary high-nickel cathode material to the organic solvent is 0.01-0.1: 1-3, and the unit of the ratio is g/mL; the mass ratio of the generation amount of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material to the generation amount of the lithium vanadate is 1: 0.01-0.1; if the vanadium source and the lithium source are used in excessive amounts, the generated lithium vanadate is excessive, so that the surface coating layer of the material is too thick and even the coating aggregates, and the reaction process kinetics of the material are influenced, thereby influencing the performance of the material. If the vanadium source and the lithium source are used in too small amounts, the coating effect is difficult to achieve, and the raw materials are wasted.

Preferably, in the step (3), the organic solvent is absolute ethyl alcohol and/or acetone. The ultrasonic power in the dispersion process is 30-60 kHz, and the ultrasonic time is 0.5-2 h; the ultrasonic dispersion is mainly used for completely decomposing the vanadium source and the lithium source in the solution and diffusing on the surface of the ternary material. If the ultrasonic dispersion frequency is too high or the time is too long, the structure of the material is damaged, and if the ultrasonic dispersion frequency is too low or the time is too short, the effect of uniform dispersion is difficult to achieve. The speed of the stirring process is 200-500 r/min, and the stirring time is 1-3 h; the temperature for heating and drying is 50-80 ℃. The heating and stirring are mainly used for uniformly dispersing the dispersed coating raw materials on the surface of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material and completely volatilizing the solvent after the coating is finished. If the stirring speed is too high, the coating layer becomes uneven, and if the stirring speed is too low, the decomposed vanadium source and lithium source themselves easily grow. The growth of secondary particles is controlled by crystal face growth, the growth rate is increased when the temperature is increased, but the temperature cannot be too high in order to control the consistency of crystal appearance, and the too high temperature can also cause resource waste.

In the above preparation method, preferably, the vanadium source is one or more of vanadyl acetylacetonate, vanadium acetylacetonate and ammonium metavanadate.

In the preparation method, preferably, in the step (4), the drying temperature is 70-110 ℃ and the time is 1-5 hours; the high-temperature sintering temperature is 600-900 ℃, the sintering time is 4-6 h, and the heating rate is 1-10 ℃/min (more preferably 3-7 ℃/min). The purpose of sintering is mainly to decompose a vanadium source and a lithium source on the surface of the ternary material, then further react to generate the fast ion conductor lithium vanadate, and uniformly coat the surface of the fast ion conductor lithium vanadate. If the temperature rise rate is too fast, it is difficult to ensure sufficient reaction of the material, and if the temperature rise rate is too slow, it is not favorable for industrial production. If the sintering temperature is too low, the coating material is difficult to completely decompose, if the sintering temperature is too high, the oxide may be further decomposed, and if the sintering temperature is too high, the decomposition of the lithium source may cause the change in the layered structure of the positive electrode material, and waste of production resources may be caused. If the sintering time is too short, the coating may not be uniform, and if the sintering time is too long, unnecessary side reactions may occur, and the production efficiency may be deteriorated.

In the preparation method, preferably, the chemical formula of the high-nickel ternary cathode material matrix is LiNi_xCo_yMn_zO₂Wherein x is more than 0.6 and less than 0.9, y is more than 0.05 and less than 0.2, and z is more than 0.05 and less than 0.2; the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material is spherical; the particle size of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material is 8-10 mu m; the thickness of the lithium vanadate coating layer is 4-6 nm

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:

(1) in the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material, the magnesium doping can reduce the mixed arrangement of lithium and nickel, stabilize the crystal structure of the material, inhibit the structural collapse of material lattices in a lithium removal state and enhance the cycle performance of the material to a certain extent; lithium vanadate coated on the surface of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate can enhance the ionic conductivity of the material and improve the rate discharge performance of the material; the high-nickel ternary cathode material subjected to double modification treatment by magnesium ion doping and fast ion conductor coating can synergistically improve the cycle performance and rate capability of the material.

(2) According to the invention, the high-nickel ternary cathode material is modified by the coordination of doping of matrix elements and surface coating, so that the internal structure of the material can be stabilized, the reaction between the surface of the material and electrolyte can be prevented, and the safety performance of the material is further improved: mg (magnesium)²⁺Radius of (0.072nm) with Li⁺Radius (0.068nm) close, Mg²⁺Can enter into the lithium layer, and inactive Mg can enter into the lithium layer during charge-discharge cycle²⁺Can act as a support column, thereby alleviating anisotropic lattice change and leading the material to have good structural reversibility, and when the lithium removal amount is increased, the repulsion between adjacent transition metal layers causes the collapse and irreversible phase change of a laminated structure, thus causing poor high-voltage cycle performance of NCM (non-uniform matrix metal), and Mg²⁺The doping can reduce the repulsion between oxygen, improve the bond energy of O-M-O, enhance the stability of a layered structure and effectively inhibit the phase transformation in the charging and discharging processes; meanwhile, the lithium vanadate coating can reduce the reaction between the surface of the material and electrolyte and reduce the dissolution of transition metal ionsAnd the ion rapid de-intercalation process is accelerated, so that the cycle performance and the safety performance of the material are optimized.

(3) The preparation method firstly provides that the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material is obtained by doping the magnesium ion phase in the process of preparing the cathode material by lithium-matched sintering of the synthesized precursor, and the structural stability of the material is improved; then, an organic solvent is selected to dissolve a vanadium source and a lithium source, then the surface of the magnesium-doped anode material is uniformly modified by a drying technology without changing the stable structure of the doped material, and a uniformly-coated fast ion conductor lithium vanadate coating layer can be formed on the surface of the base material by a sintering process.

(4) The preparation method of the invention firstly adopts a co-firing means to carry out magnesium doping to inhibit lithium-nickel mixed discharging, then carries out a wet chemical synthesis method on the material to form a vanadium-lithium compound on the surface layer of the substrate material, finally generates a lithium vanadate coating layer in a proper temperature range, carries out fast ion conductor lithium vanadate coating on the basis of the magnesium doped high-nickel ternary material, realizes doping and coating double modification, and has the advantages of simple process, low reaction temperature, low raw material cost and suitability for industrial production.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is an XRD (X-ray diffraction) pattern of a lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in example 1 of the invention;

FIG. 2 is an SEM image of a lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in example 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a TEM image of the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in example 1 of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a charge-discharge cycle curve and a charge-discharge coulomb curve chart of a battery assembled by the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in example 1 of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a discharge rate curve diagram of a battery assembled by the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in embodiment 1 of the invention;

fig. 6 is a charge-discharge cycle curve and a charge-discharge coulomb curve chart of a battery assembled by the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in example 2 of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a charge-discharge cycle curve and a charge-discharge coulomb curve chart of a battery assembled by the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in example 3 of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to facilitate an understanding of the invention, the invention will be described more fully and in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments, but the scope of the invention is not limited to the specific embodiments below.

Unless otherwise defined, all terms of art used hereinafter have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.

Unless otherwise specifically stated, various raw materials, reagents, instruments, equipment and the like used in the present invention are commercially available or can be prepared by existing methods.

Example 1:

the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material comprises a high-nickel ternary cathode material LiNi_0.74Co_0.14Mn_0.12O₂The high-nickel ternary cathode material comprises a substrate, wherein metal magnesium is doped in the high-nickel ternary cathode material, the surface of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate is coated with a lithium vanadate coating layer, the magnesium doping content accounts for 2% of the total amount of transition metals, and the lithium vanadate coating layer accounts for 3% of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material; the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material is a spherical-like secondary particle aggregate, the average particle size is 9 mu m, the morphology is regular, and the distribution is uniform; the average thickness of the lithium vanadate coating layer is 5 nm.

The preparation method of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material of the embodiment comprises the following steps:

(1) pumping 4L of mixed solution of nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate (the total molar concentration of Ni, Co and Mn ions is 2.0mol/L, the molar ratio of Ni, Co and Mn is 8:1: 1) into a reaction kettle filled with 2L and 2mol/L ammonia water solution at the feeding speed of 100mL/h, and simultaneously, ammonia water with the mass concentration of 25% is used for adjusting the concentration of the ammonia water in the reaction kettle to keep the concentration of the ammonia at 2mol/L, 4L and 5mol/L sodium hydroxide precipitant solutions are used for adjusting the pH value of the reaction system to 11.4, high-purity nitrogen gas is introduced, after coprecipitation reaction is carried out for 40 hours at the temperature of 50 ℃ at 1000 r/min, stirring and aging for 12h at 45 ℃, filtering, respectively and alternately washing the filtrate with deionized water and ethanol for 6 times, and drying at 90 ℃ for 12h to obtain a nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor;

(2) mixing and grinding 1.0g of the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor (Ni 7.3887mmol, Co 1.4356 mmol and Mn 1.1558 mmol) obtained in the step (1), 0.4396 g (10.479 mmol) of lithium hydroxide monohydrate and 0.01683 g (0.1996 mmol) of magnesium carbonate, heating to 450 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in the atmosphere of high-purity oxygen, sintering for 5h, heating to 750 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min, sintering for 12h, performing two-stage sintering, and cooling to room temperature to obtain a magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material;

(3) dispersing 1g of the magnesium-doped ternary cathode material obtained in the step (2) in 50mL of absolute ethyl alcohol, adding 0.07696g (0.2209 mmol) of vanadyl acetylacetonate and 0.0278g (0.6629 mmol) of lithium hydroxide, performing ultrasonic dispersion for 1h at the ultrasonic power of 50 kHz, stirring for 1h at the rotating speed of 200 r/min, and dissolving at the temperature of 50 ℃ until the solvent is evaporated to dryness;

(4) and (4) drying the powder obtained in the step (3) at 100 ℃ for 2h, transferring the powder into a tubular furnace, heating the powder to 700 ℃ at a heating rate of 5 ℃/min in an oxygen atmosphere, sintering the powder for 5h, and cooling the powder to room temperature to obtain the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped ternary cathode material.

XRD of the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in the embodiment is shown in figure 1, and LiNiO is a PDF card₂(PDF # 85-1966) with no hetero-phase formation.

As shown in fig. 2, an SEM electron microscope image of the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in this embodiment is shown in fig. 2, the morphology of the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material better inherits the morphology of the high-nickel ternary cathode material, the secondary particles are spheroidal, and the average particle size is 9 μm.

An electron microscope image of the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in this example is shown in fig. 3, a fast ion conductor lithium vanadate coating layer is formed on the surface of the secondary particle, and the average thickness of the coating layer is about 5 nm.

Assembling the battery: weighing 0.08 g of the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary positive electrode material prepared in the embodiment, adding 0.01g of acetylene black serving as a conductive agent and 0.01g of PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) serving as a binder, mixing and grinding with N-methylpyrrolidone serving as a solvent to form a positive electrode material, coating the obtained positive electrode material on the surface of an aluminum foil to prepare a pole piece, and putting the pole piece as a positive electrode, a metal lithium piece as a negative electrode and a microporous polypropylene film as a diaphragm in an argon-filled sealed glove box to obtain 1mol/L LiPF₆DMC (volume ratio 1: 1) is used as electrolyte, a CR2025 button cell is assembled, and charging and discharging performance tests are carried out.

As shown in fig. 4, the battery assembled by the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in this embodiment has a first discharge specific capacity of 174.8mAh/g, a first charge specific capacity of 193.6 mAh/g, a first charge-discharge coulombic efficiency of 90.27% and a capacity retention rate of 88.67% after 100 cycles, under a charge-discharge voltage of 2.7-4.3V and a current density of 1C (200 mA/g). This shows that the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary positive electrode material prepared in this embodiment is beneficial to transportation of lithium ions in the charging and discharging processes, and has stable discharging specific capacity, charging and discharging performance, coulombic efficiency and good cycle performance.

As shown in fig. 5, the specific discharge capacity of the battery assembled by the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in this embodiment can reach 140 mAh/g or more at a current density of 10C, which further illustrates that the lithium ion transport performance of the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared in this embodiment is improved during the charge-discharge cycle.

Comparative example 1:

the preparation process of the high-nickel ternary cathode material of the comparative example is as follows:

(1) the preparation process of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor is the same as that of example 1;

(2) mixing and grinding 1.0g of the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor (Ni 7.3887mmol, Co 1.4356 mmol and Mn 1.1558 mmol) obtained in the step (1) and 0.4396 g (10.479 mmol) of lithium hydroxide monohydrate, heating to 450 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in the atmosphere of high-purity oxygen, sintering for 5h, heating to 750 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min, sintering for 12h, performing two-stage sintering, and cooling to room temperature to obtain the high-nickel ternary cathode material.

Assembling the battery: the same as in example 1.

Through detection, the battery assembled by the high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared by the comparative example has the first discharge specific capacity of 172.1mAh/g, the charge specific capacity of 183.8 mAh/g and the first charge-discharge coulombic efficiency of 86.6% under the charge-discharge voltage of 2.7-4.3V and the current density of 1C (200 mA/g), the discharge specific capacity is quickly attenuated to 120.6mAh/g after 100 cycles of circulation, the capacity retention rate is only 70.07%, and the discharge specific capacity is only 100.9 mAh/g under the 10C heavy current density. The result shows that the high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared by the comparative example has low first charge-discharge coulombic efficiency and high irreversible capacity caused in the first charge-discharge process, and the poor cycle stability characteristics of the material, such as severe capacity attenuation and low capacity retention rate after charge-discharge cycle, indicate that the structure of the material is unstable, the capacity is obviously reduced under the condition of high current density, and indicate that the material which is not modified by the comparative example has severe polarization phenomenon under the condition of high current density and the transmission and diffusion path of ions is blocked.

Comparative example 2:

the high-nickel ternary cathode material of the comparative example is different from the high-nickel ternary cathode material of the example 1 in that no coating layer is arranged, and the preparation steps are as follows:

(1) the preparation process of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor is the same as that of example 1;

(2) mixing and grinding 1.0g of the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor (Ni 7.3887mmol, Co 1.4356 mmol and Mn 1.1558 mmol) obtained in the step (1), 0.4396 g (10.479 mmol) of lithium hydroxide monohydrate and 0.01683 g (0.1996 mmol) of magnesium carbonate, heating to 450 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in the atmosphere of high-purity oxygen, sintering for 5h, heating to 750 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min, sintering for 12h, performing two-stage sintering, and cooling to room temperature to obtain the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material.

Assembling the battery: the same as in example 1.

Through detection, when the battery assembled by the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared by the comparative example is charged and discharged at the voltage of 2.7-4.3V and the current density of 1C (200 mA/g), the first discharge specific capacity is 163.4mAh/g, the charge specific capacity is 188.1 mAh/g, the first charge and discharge coulombic efficiency is 81.53%, the discharge specific capacity is reduced to 123.3mAh/g after 100 cycles of circulation, the capacity retention rate is 75.46%, and the discharge specific capacity is only 111.3 mAh/g under the heavy current density of 10C. This shows that the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared by the comparative example has low first charge-discharge coulombic efficiency, and the magnesium-doped cathode material undergoes irreversible phase change in the first delithiation process, particularly on the surface of particles, thereby causing irreversible partial capacity. The capacity of the material after charge and discharge cycles is improved compared with that of an undoped material, but the capacity retention rate is low. The capacity is still lower under the condition of high current density, which indicates that the material doped with magnesium still has serious polarization phenomenon under the condition of high current density, and the transmission and diffusion path of ions is blocked.

Comparative example 3:

the high-nickel ternary cathode material of the comparative example is different from the high-nickel ternary cathode material of the example 1 in that a matrix is not doped with magnesium, and the preparation steps are as follows:

(1) the preparation process of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor is the same as that of example 1;

(2) mixing and grinding 1.0g of the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor (Ni 7.3887mmol, Co 1.4356 mmol and Mn 1.1558 mmol) obtained in the step (1) and 0.4396 g (10.479 mmol) of lithium hydroxide monohydrate, heating to 450 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min in the atmosphere of high-purity oxygen, sintering for 5h, heating to 750 ℃ at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min, sintering for 12h, performing two-stage sintering, and cooling to room temperature to obtain the high-nickel ternary cathode material.

(3) Dispersing 1g of the high-nickel ternary cathode material obtained in the step (2) in 50mL of absolute ethyl alcohol, adding 0.07696g (0.2209 mmol) of vanadyl acetylacetonate and 0.0278g (0.6629 mmol) of lithium hydroxide, performing ultrasonic dispersion for 1h at the ultrasonic power of 50 kHz, stirring for 1h at the rotating speed of 200 r/min, and stirring and dissolving at the temperature of 50 ℃ until the solvent is evaporated to dryness;

(4) and (4) drying the powder obtained in the step (3) at 100 ℃ for 2h, transferring the powder into a tubular furnace, heating to 700 ℃ at a heating rate of 5 ℃/min in an oxygen atmosphere, sintering for 5h, and cooling to room temperature to obtain the lithium vanadate coated ternary cathode material.

Assembling the battery: the same as in example 1.

Through detection, the battery assembled by the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared by the comparative example has the first discharge specific capacity of 161.9mAh/g under the conditions that the charge-discharge voltage is 2.7-4.3V and the current density is 1C (200 mA/g), the discharge specific capacity is reduced to 135.9mAh/g after 100 cycles of circulation, the capacity retention rate is 83.94%, and the discharge specific capacity is improved to 139.1 mAh/g under the condition of 10C heavy current density. This shows that the first discharge specific capacity of the lithium vanadate-coated high-nickel ternary cathode material prepared by the comparative example is reduced to some extent, because the lithium vanadate layer on the surface layer affects the active material, but the capacity retention rate of the material coated with lithium vanadate is improved to some extent, the performance under large current density is improved obviously, and the lithium vanadate layer protects the matrix material from being corroded in the charge-discharge cycle process, and also accelerates the rapid ion deintercalation.

Example 2:

the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material comprises a high-nickel ternary cathode material LiNi_0.74Co_0.14Mn_0.12O₂The high-nickel ternary cathode material is doped with metal magnesium, the surface of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material substrate is coated with a lithium vanadate coating layer, the magnesium doping content accounts for 3% of the total transition metal, and the lithium vanadate coating layer accounts for 5% of the magnesium-doped ternary material; the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material is a spherical-like secondary particle aggregate, the average particle size is 9 mu m, the morphology is regular, and the distribution is uniform; the average thickness of the lithium vanadate coating layer is 6 nm.

The preparation method of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material of the embodiment comprises the following steps:

(1) the preparation process of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor is the same as that of example 1;

(2) mixing and grinding 1.0g of the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor (Ni 7.3887mmol, Co 1.4356 mmol and Mn 1.1558 mmol) obtained in the step (1), 0.427 g (10.179 mmol) of lithium hydroxide monohydrate and 0.04263 g (0.2994 mmol) of magnesium acetate, heating to 400 ℃ at the heating rate of 4 ℃/min in the atmosphere of high-purity oxygen, sintering for 6 hours, heating to 775 ℃ at the heating rate of 4 ℃/min, sintering for 14 hours, performing two-stage sintering, and cooling to room temperature to obtain a magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material;

(3) dispersing 0.8 g of the magnesium-doped ternary cathode material obtained in the step (2) in 60mL of acetone, adding 0.10261g (0.2946 mmol) of vanadyl acetylacetonate and 0.03709g (0.8839 mmol) of lithium hydroxide, ultrasonically dispersing for 1.5h at the ultrasonic power of 40 kHz, stirring for 1.5h at the rotating speed of 350 r/min, and stirring and dissolving at the temperature of 50 ℃ until the solvent is evaporated to dryness;

(4) and (4) drying the powder obtained in the step (3) at 100 ℃ for 2h, transferring the powder into a tubular furnace, heating to 700 ℃ at a heating rate of 5 ℃/min in an oxygen atmosphere, sintering for 5h, and cooling to room temperature to obtain the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material.

Assembling the battery: the same as in example 1.

As shown in fig. 6, when the charge and discharge voltage of the battery assembled by the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material is 2.7-4.3V and the current density of 1C (200 mA/g), the first discharge specific capacity is 171.4mAh/g, the charge specific capacity is 192.5 mAh/g, the first charge and discharge coulombic efficiency is 89.06%, after 100 cycles, the discharge specific capacity can still reach 150.1mAh/g, and the capacity retention rate is 87.57%.

Example 3:

the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material comprises a magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material LiNi_0.74Co_0.14Mn_0.12O₂The lithium vanadate coating layer accounts for 2% of the total transition metal content, and the lithium vanadate coating layer accounts for 2% of the magnesium-doped ternary material; the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material is a spherical-like secondary particle aggregate, the average particle size is 9 mu m, the morphology is regular, and the distribution is uniform; lithium vanadate coatingThe average thickness of the layers was 5 nm.

The preparation method of the modified high-nickel ternary cathode material of the embodiment comprises the following steps:

(1) the preparation process of the nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor is the same as that of example 1;

(2) mixing and grinding 1.0g of the nickel-cobalt-manganese hydroxide precursor (Ni 7.3887mmol, Co 1.4356 mmol and Mn 1.1558 mmol) obtained in the step (1) with 0.3982 g (5.3893 mmol) of lithium carbonate and 0.01683 g (0.1996 mmol) of magnesium carbonate, heating to 500 ℃ at the heating rate of 6 ℃/min in the atmosphere of high-purity oxygen, sintering for 4 hours, heating to 800 ℃ at the heating rate of 6 ℃/min, sintering for 12 hours, performing two-stage sintering, and cooling to room temperature to obtain the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material;

(3) dispersing 1g of the magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material obtained in the step (2) in 40mL of absolute ethyl alcohol, adding 0.03906g (0.1473 mmol) of vanadium acetylacetonate and 0.016328 g (0.2209 mmol) of lithium carbonate, ultrasonically dispersing for 1h at the ultrasonic power of 60 kHz, stirring for 1h at the rotating speed of 450 r/min, and stirring and dissolving at the temperature of 50 ℃ until the solvent is evaporated to dryness;

(4) and (4) drying the powder obtained in the step (3) at 100 ℃ for 2h, transferring the powder into a tubular furnace, heating to 700 ℃ at a speed of 5 ℃/min in an oxygen atmosphere, sintering for 5h, and cooling to room temperature to obtain the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material.

Assembling the battery: same as example 1

As shown in fig. 7, when the charge and discharge voltage is 2.7-4.3V and the current density is 1C (200 mA/g), the battery assembled by the method for coating a magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material with lithium vanadate according to the embodiment of the present invention has a first discharge specific capacity of 173.7mAh/g, a charge specific capacity of 192.7 mAh/g, a first charge and discharge coulombic efficiency of 90.17%, after 100 cycles, the discharge specific capacity can still reach 148.5mAh/g, the capacity retention rate is 85.49%, the discharge specific capacity after 300 cycles is 117.4 mAh/g, and the capacity retention rate is 67.58%. The method for preparing the lithium vanadate-coated magnesium-doped high-nickel ternary cathode material is beneficial to transportation of lithium ions in the charging and discharging processes, and has stable discharging specific capacity, charging and discharging performance, coulombic efficiency and good cycle performance.