METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MANUFACTURING ANODE FOR ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY USING ELECTRIC FIELD
20220302425 · 2022-09-22
Inventors
Cpc classification
H01M4/13
ELECTRICITY
Y02P70/50
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
H01M4/1393
ELECTRICITY
H01M10/0525
ELECTRICITY
International classification
Abstract
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus of manufacturing an anode for an all-solid-state battery by using an electric field. The manufacturing method includes: preparing a first coating member and a second coating member spaced apart from the first coating member by a predetermined distance; preparing a coating slurry, the coating slurry including a carbon material and a metal alloyable with lithium; feeding the coating slurry to the first coating member; feeding a current collector between the first coating member and the second coating member; and coating the coating slurry on the current collector by using an electric field generated between the first coating member and the second coating member by applying voltages to the first coating member and the second coating member.
Claims
1. A method of manufacturing an anode for an all-solid-state battery, comprising: preparing a first coating member and a second coating member spaced apart from the first coating member by a predetermined distance; preparing a coating slurry, the coating slurry comprising a carbon material and a metal alloyable with lithium; feeding the coating slurry to the first coating member; feeding a current collector to a gap between the first coating member and the second coating member; and applying the coating slurry on the current collector by using an electric field generated between the first coating member and the second coating member by applying voltages to the first coating member and the second coating member.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second coating member is positioned above the first coating member.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein a distance between the first coating member and the second coating member is about 6 cm to 17 cm.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first coating member is a rotatably installed coating roll, and wherein the coating roll is positioned above a container in which the coating slurry is accommodated, and the coating roll is configured such that the coating slurry is attached to a surface of the coating roll by rotating the coating roll.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the current collector is continuously fed between the first coating member and the second coating member at a speed of about 0.5 m/min to 0.8 m/min.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the current collector is fed in a roll-to-roll manner.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the voltages are applied to the first coating member and the second coating member and a voltage difference between the first coating member and the second coating member ranges from about 14 kV to about 24 kV.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein a ground voltage is applied to the second coating member.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the coating slurry is applied to the current collector by moving in a direction opposite to gravity from the first coating member.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein a loading amount of the coating slurry that is applied to the current collector is about 0.8 mg/cm.sup.2 to 1.0 mg/cm.sup.2.
11. An apparatus for manufacturing an anode for an all-solid-state battery, comprising: a container in which a coating slurry comprising a carbon material and a metal alloyable with lithium is accommodated; a first coating member installed above the container and having a surface with a predetermined area to which the coating slurry is attached; a second coating member spaced apart from the first coating member by a predetermined distance; a transfer unit configured to feed a current collector to a gap between the first coating member and the second coating member; and a power component connected to the first coating member and the second coating member and configured to generate an electric field between the first coating member and the second coating member by applying voltages to the first coating member and the second coating member, wherein the coating slurry attached to the surface of the first coating member is coated to the current collector through the electric field.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the second coating member is positioned above the first coating member, and a distance between the first coating member and the second coating member is about 6 cm to 17 cm.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein at least one of the first coating member and the second coating member is installed to be movable in an up and down direction.
14. The method of claim 11, wherein the first coating member is a rotatably installed coating roll, and the coating slurry is attached to the surface of the first coating member by the coating roll that is rotated above the container.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the coating roll comprises at least one groove on a surface thereof, the groove having a predetermined width.
16. The method of claim 11, wherein the transfer unit comprises transferring rolls that are installed respectively at an inlet side and an outlet side of the first and second coating members.
17. The method of claim 11, wherein the transfer unit is configured to feed the current collector to the gap between the first coating member and the second coating member at a speed of about 0.5 m/min to 0.8 m/min.
18. The method of claim 11, wherein the power component is configured to apply the voltages to the first coating member and the second coating member such that a voltage difference between the first coating member and the second coating member is to be about 14 kV to 24 kV.
19. The method of claim 11, wherein the power component is configured to apply a ground voltage to the second coating member.
20. The method of claim 11, wherein the coating slurry is coated to the current collector by moving in a direction opposite to gravity from the first coating member.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0039] The above and other objectives, features, and other advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0048] The objectives, features, and advantages of the present invention will be easily understood through the following detailed description of specific exemplary embodiments and the attached drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the exemplary embodiments and may be embodied in other forms. On the contrary, the exemplary embodiments are provided so that the invention of the present invention may be completely and fully understood by those of ordinary skill.
[0049] In the attached drawings, like numerals are used to represent like elements. In the drawings, the dimensions of the elements are enlarged for easier understanding of the present invention. Although the terms first, second, etc. may be used to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only to distinguish one element from another. For example, a first element can be termed a second element and, similarly, a second element can be termed a first element without departing from the scope of the present invention. A singular expression includes a plural expression unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
[0050] In the present invention, terms such as “include”, “contain”, “have”, etc. should be understood as designating that features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, parts or combinations thereof exist and not as precluding the existence of or the possibility of adding one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, parts, or combinations thereof in advance. In addition, when an element such as a layer, a film, a region, a substrate, etc. is referred to as being “on” another element, it can be “directly on” the another element or an intervening element may also be present. Likewise, when an element such as a layer, a film, a region, a substrate, etc. is referred to as being “under” another element, it can be “directly under” the another element or an intervening element may also be present.
[0051] Unless specified otherwise, all the numbers, values and/or expressions representing the amount of components, reaction conditions, polymer compositions or mixtures are approximations reflecting various uncertainties of measurement occurring in obtaining those values and should be understood to be modified by “about”. Further, unless specifically stated or obvious from context, as used herein, the term “about” is understood as within a range of normal tolerance in the art, for example within 2 standard deviations of the mean. “About” can be understood as within 10%, 9%, 8%, 7%, 6%, 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 1%, 0.5%, 0.1%, 0.05%, or 0.01% of the stated value. Unless otherwise clear from the context, all numerical values provided herein are modified by the term “about.”
[0052] Also, unless specified otherwise, all the numerical ranges disclosed in the present invention are continuous and include all the values from the minimum values to the maximum values included in the ranges. In addition, when the ranges indicate integers, all the integers from the minimum values to the maximum values included in the ranges are included unless specified otherwise. For example, the range of “5 to 10” will be understood to include any subranges, such as 6 to 10, 7 to 10, 6 to 9, 7 to 9, and the like, as well as individual values of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, and will also be understood to include any value between valid integers within the stated range, such as 5.5, 6.5, 7.5, 5.5 to 8.5, 6.5 to 9, and the like. Also, for example, the range of “10% to 30%” will be understood to include subranges, such as 10% to 15%, 12% to 18%, 20% to 30%, etc., as well as all integers including values of 10%, 11%, 12%, 13% and the like up to 30%, and will also be understood to include any value between valid integers within the stated range, such as 10.5%, 15.5%, 25.5%, and the like.
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[0054] The cathode current collector 110 may be a plate-shaped substrate that is electrically conductive. The cathode current collector 110 may include an aluminum foil.
[0055] The cathode active material layer 120 may include a cathode active material, a solid electrolyte, a conductive material, a binder, and so on.
[0056] In addition, the cathode active material may be an oxide active material or a sulfide active material.
[0057] For example, the oxide active material may include a rock-salt-layer-type active material such as LiCoO.sub.2, LiMnO.sub.2, LiNiO.sub.2, LiVO.sub.2, Li.sub.1+xNi.sub.1/3Co.sub.1/3Mn.sub.1/3O.sub.2 and the like, a spinel-type active material such as LiMn.sub.2O.sub.4, Li(Ni.sub.0.5Mn.sub.1.5)O.sub.4 and the like, an inverse-spinel-type active material such as LiNiVO.sub.4, LiCoVO.sub.4 and the like, an olivine-type active material such as LiFePO.sub.4, LiMnPO.sub.4, LiCoPO.sub.4, LiNiPO.sub.4 and the like, a silicon-containing active material such as Li.sub.2FeSiO.sub.4, Li.sub.2MnSiO.sub.4 and the like, a rock-solid-layer-type active material in which a portion of a transition metal is substituted with a different metal, such as LiNi.sub.0.8Co.sub.(0.2-x)Al.sub.xO.sub.2(0<x<0.2); a spinel-type active material in which a portion of a transition metal is substituted with a different metal, such as Li.sub.1+xMn.sub.2-x-yM.sub.yO.sub.4(M being at least one of Al, Mg, Co, Fe, Ni and Zn, 0<x+y<2); or lithium titanate such as Li.sub.4Ti.sub.5O.sub.12 and the like.
[0058] The sulfide active material may include copper Chevrel, iron sulfide, cobalt sulfide, nickel sulfide, etc.
[0059] The solid electrolyte may include an oxide-based solid electrolyte or a sulfide-based solid electrolyte. However, the sulfide-based solid electrolyte may preferably have high lithium-ion conductivity. The sulfide-based solid electrolyte is not particularly limited, and may include Li.sub.2S—P.sub.2S.sub.5, Li.sub.2S—P.sub.2S.sub.5—LiI, Li.sub.2S—P.sub.2S.sub.5—LiCl, Li.sub.2S—P.sub.2S.sub.5—LiBr, Li.sub.2S—P.sub.2S.sub.5—Li.sub.2O, Li.sub.2S—P.sub.2S.sub.5—Li.sub.2O—LiI, Li.sub.2S—SiS.sub.2, Li.sub.2S—SiS.sub.2—LiI, Li.sub.2S—SiS.sub.2—LiBr, Li.sub.2S—SiS.sub.2—LiCl, Li.sub.2S—SiS.sub.2—B.sub.2S.sub.3—LiI, Li.sub.2S—SiS.sub.2—P.sub.2S.sub.5—LiI, Li.sub.2S—B.sub.2S.sub.3, Li.sub.2S—P.sub.2S.sub.5—Z.sub.mS.sub.n (in which m and n are positive numbers, and Z is any one of Ge, Zn, and Ga), Li.sub.2S—GeS.sub.2, Li.sub.2S—SiS.sub.2—Li.sub.3PO.sub.4, Li.sub.2S—SiS.sub.2—Li.sub.xMO.sub.y (in which x and y are positive numbers, and M is any one of P, Si, Ge, B, Al, Ga, and In), Li.sub.10GeP.sub.2S.sub.12, etc.
[0060] The conductive material may include carbon black, conducting graphite, ethylene black, graphene, etc.
[0061] The binder may include butadiene rubber (BR), nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR), hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR), polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), or the like.
[0062] The anode 200 includes the anode current collector 210 and the coating layer 220 that is positioned on the anode current collector 210.
[0063] The anode current collector 210 may include a plate-shaped substrate being electrically conductive. The anode current collector 210 may include a foam that is electrically conductive and flexible. The anode current collector 210 may be a metal foam including at least one selected from the group consisting of nickel (Ni), stainless steel (SUS), and a combination thereof.
[0064] A thickness of the anode current collector 210 may be about 1 μm to 20 μm, or about 5 μm to 15 μm.
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[0066] The coating layer 220 may include a carbon material and a metal alloyable with lithium.
[0067] The carbon material may include amorphous carbon. The carbon material may preferably include amorphous carbon including at least one selected from the group consisting of furnace black, acetylene black, ketjen black, graphene, and a combination thereof.
[0068] The metal alloyable with lithium may include one or more selected from the group consisting of gold (Au), platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), silicon (Si), silver (Ag), aluminum (Al), bismuth (Bi), tin (Sn), and zinc (Zn).
[0069] The coating layer 220 may further include a binder. The binder is not particularly limited, and may be butadiene rubber (BR), nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR), hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR), polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), or the like.
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[0071] The coating slurry 10 may include a material to form the coating layer 220, and the coating slurry 10 may be obtained by adding aforementioned carbon material and aforementioned metal alloyable with lithium into a solvent. The coating slurry 10 may further include a binder.
[0072] The container 20 may be formed of an insulating material. Since the voltage is applied to the coating member 30 through the power component 60, it may be preferable to use the container 20 that is formed of an insulating material due to safety reasons.
[0073] The first coating member 30 may be installed above the container 20. In particular, as shown in
[0074] The first coating member 30 may include a rotatably installed coating roll, and the coating slurry 10 may be attached to the surface of the first coating member 30 by the coating roll that is rotated above the container 20. At this time, a blade 70 may be installed in accordance with a rotating direction of the first coating member 30, so that the coating slurry 10 may be attached to the surface of the coating roll with a uniform thickness.
[0075] The first coating member 30 may be a cylindrical coating roll having a smooth surface, or may include at least one groove 32 formed on a cylindrical body portion 31 and a surface of the body portion 31 by being recessed with a predetermined width and depth. Since the coating slurry 10 is not attached to the groove 32, by appropriately adjusting a shape and a position of the groove 32, the coating layer 220 may have a pattern according to the shape and the position of the groove 32.
[0076] The second coating member 40 may be installed above the first coating member 30. Particularly, the second coating member 40 may be positioned on a position in a direction opposite with respect to the direction in which gravity acts on the first coating member 30. When an electric field is generated between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 by the power component 60, the coating slurry 10 that is attached to the surface of the first coating member 30 may be applied to the current collector 210 by moving in the opposite direction of gravity. This will be described later.
[0077] The second coating member 40 may include a grounding member. The power component 60 may apply a ground voltage to the second coating member 40. In order to generate an electric field capable of moving the coating slurry 10 sufficiently, a voltage difference equal to or greater than a predetermined level may be needed. However, when the ground voltage is applied to the second coating member 40 by the power component 60, the voltage difference may be managed and adjusted easily because the voltage of a desired level can be directly applied to the first coating member 30 without addition or subtraction of the voltage. However, the second coating member 40 is not limited to the grounding member, and may include any component that can generate a voltage difference equal to or more than a predetermined level between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40.
[0078] A shape of the second coating member 40 is not particularly limited, and may have various shapes such as plate type, conveyor type, etc.
[0079] The transfer unit 50 is configured to feed the current collector 210 to a gap between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40. Particularly, the transfer unit 50 may include transferring rolls that are installed respectively at an inlet side and an outlet side of the first and second coating members 30 and 40. The inlet side and the outlet side are defined based on a moving direction of the current collector 210. A side where the current collector 40 enters into a gap between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 is defined as the inlet side, and a side where the current collector 40 exits is defined as the outlet side.
[0080] In a method of manufacturing an anode for an all-solid-state battery according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the coating layer 220 may be formed on the current collector 210 during a movement of the current collector 210 by using a roll-to-roll manner, so that an anode may be obtained through a continuous and simplified process.
[0081] The power component 60 is configured to generate an electric field on a space between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 by applying voltages. Particularly, the power component 60 may apply a predetermined voltage to the first coating member 30, and may apply the ground voltage to the second coating member 40. In an electric field generation area (A), the coating slurry 10 attached to the surface of the first coating member 30 may be applied to the current collector 210 passing through the electric field generation area (A) by moving along the direction of the electric field that is a direction opposite to gravity.
[0082] According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the coating slurry 10 may be coated by the electric field, so that metals included in the coating slurry 10 may not be flocculated, and thus the coating slurry 10 may be uniformly and densely coated. In addition, since the coating slurry 10 is coated by moving in the direction opposite to gravity, particles such as beads that have been increased in the size by being flocculated may be easily excluded. A coating condition of the coating slurry 10 by using the electric field will be more specifically described hereinafter.
[0083] The method of manufacturing an anode for an all-solid-state battery may include: preparing the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 spaced apart from the first coating member 30 by a predetermined distance; preparing the coating slurry 10, the coating slurry 10 including a carbon material and a metal alloyable with lithium; feeding the coating slurry 10 to the first coating member 30; feeding the current collector 210 to a gap between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40; and coating the coating slurry 10 to the current collector 210 by using the electric field A generated between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 by applying the voltages to the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40.
[0084] Hereinafter, each process of the manufacturing method according to the present invention will be more easily understood by referring to the description of the above-described manufacturing apparatus of an anode for an all-solid-state battery.
[0085] A distance between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 may in a range of about 6 cm to 17 cm, or in a range of about 7.5 cm to 15 cm. When the distance between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 is less than about 6 cm, a distance between the coating slurry 10 and the current collector 210 becomes excessively close so that a flocculation of particles in the coating slurries 10 may occur. When the distance between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 is greater than about 17 cm, the coating layer 200 may not be uniformly formed due to an increased travel distance of the coating slurry 10, or beads with large particle sizes may be formed due to increased contact between the coating slurries 10 during the travel.
[0086] The current collector 210 may be fed to the gap between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 by the transfer unit 50 aforementioned. Particularly, the current collector 210 may be continuously fed at a speed of about 0.5 m/min to 0.8 m/min. However, the fed speed of the current collector 210 may be appropriately adjusted depending on a desired loading amount of the coating layer 220.
[0087] A voltage difference between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 may be in a range of about 14 kV to 24 kV, in a range of about 13 kV to 22 kV, or particularly in a range of about 16 kV to 22 kV. When the second coating member 40 includes a grounding member so that a ground voltage is applied to the second coating member 40, the above-described power component 60 may apply a voltage in a range of about 14 kV to 24 kV, in a range of about 13 kV to 22 kV, or in a range of about 16 kV to 22 kV to the first coating member 30. When the voltage difference between the first coating member 30 and the second coating member 40 is less than about 14 kV, a flocculation of particles in the coating slurry 10 may occur. When the voltage difference is greater than about 24 kV, beads with large particle sizes may be formed.
[0088] The manufacturing method may be coating the coating slurry 10 to the current collector 210 with a loading amount of about 0.8 mg/cm.sup.2 to 1.0 mg/cm.sup.2. However, the loading amount of the coating slurry 10 may be appropriately adjusted depending on a desired performance of a cell.
EXAMPLE
[0089] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described more specifically through examples. However, these examples are provided only for the understanding of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited to these examples.
Example 1
[0090] A coating layer was formed on a current collector by preparing a manufacturing apparatus for the anode as illustrated in
Comparative Example 1
[0091] The same coating slurry as the Example 1 was applied to an anode current collector at a thickness of about 11.8 μm, and a coating layer having a thickness of about 5.6 μm was formed by pressurizing a predetermined pressure after drying.
Experimental Example 1
[0092] Scanning electron microscope analysis was performed on anodes according to the Example 1 and the Comparative Example 1.
Experimental Example 2
[0093] After manufacturing all-solid state batteries through the same process as illustrated in
Example 3 to Example 6, Comparative Example 2, and Comparative Example 3
[0094] In the same manufacturing apparatus as illustrated in
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Distance between first coating member and second Division coating member State Comparative 5 cm Occurrence of Drop Example 2 and Beads Example 3 7.5 cm Normal Example 4 10 cm Normal Example 5 12.5 cm Normal Example 6 15 cm Normal Comparative 17.5 cm Beads occurred Example 3
[0095] As shown in Table 1, when a distance between a first coating member and a second coating member was less than 6 cm or less than 7.5 cm, a state of a coating layer was not good due to the occurrence of drop and beads, and when a distance between a first coating member and a second coating layer was greater than 15 cm or greater than 17 cm, beads were also formed.
Example 7 to Example 10, Comparative Example 4, and Comparative Example 5
[0096] In the same manufacturing apparatus as illustrated in
TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Voltage applied to Division first coating member State Comparative 10 kV Occurrence of Drop Example 4 and Flocculation Example 7 13 kV Normal Example 8 16 kV Normal Example 9 19 kV Normal Example 10 22 kV Normal Comparative 25 kV Beads occurred Example 5
[0097] As shown in Table 2, when a voltage difference between a first coating member and a second coating member was less than 12 kV or less than 14 kV, a state of a coating layer was not good due to the occurrence of drop and flocculation, and when the voltage difference was greater than 22 kV or greater than 24 kV, beads were formed.
[0098] As described above, while the experimental example and the exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been specifically described, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the above-disclosed experimental example and embodiments, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concept of the present invention, which is defined in the appended claims, are also included in the scope of the present invention.