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尖晶石LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄材料表面Li₃PO₄包覆改性与电化学性能

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硅酸盐学报 | 研究论文 2024,52(6): 2032-2039

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硅酸盐学报 |研究论文 2024 , 52 (6) : 2032 -2039

尖晶石LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄材料表面Li₃PO₄包覆改性与电化学性能

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宁德时代新能源科技股份有限公司，福建宁德 352106

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柳娜（1979—），女，博士。

Surface Modification and Electrochemical Performance of Spinel LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ Cathode Material with Li₃PO₄ Coating

Na LIU

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Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited., Ningde 352106, Fujian, China

LIU Na (1979-), female, Ph.D. E-mail: liun@catl.com

出版时间: 2024-06-20 doi: 10.14062/j.issn.0454-5648.20230801

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尖晶石结构LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄（LNMO）材料因具备高工作电压、低成本和环境友好等优点，被认为是最具有发展前景的正极材料之一。然而，LNMO材料在充放电过程中表现出严重的表面失氧和Mn溶出反应，导致其整体电化学性能较差。采用前驱体Li₃PO₄包覆技术，在LNMO材料颗粒表面构建均匀的纳米包覆层，不仅提高了LNMO的循环稳定性和倍率性能，而且有效抑制了循环过程中阴极材料过渡金属溶出。结合X射线衍射仪、扫描电子显微技术、透射电子显微镜和电化学分析等测试手段，充分对比和分析Li₃PO₄包覆LNMO材料前后对微观结构和电化学性能的影响。该方法实现了Li₃PO₄的均匀包覆，并且没有改变LNMO正极材料的晶体结构。前驱体包覆3% Li₃PO₄的LNMO材料在1 C倍率下循环300圈容量保持率从无包覆的81.82%提升至包覆后的90.47%，2 C高倍率下的放电容量保持率从87.72%提升至92.39%，且EOL电芯阳极极片中过渡金属Mn溶出量明显降低。前驱体Li₃PO₄包覆策略是一种有效的材料表面改性策略，可以有效提升尖晶石型LNMO正极材料在循环过程中的结构稳定性和电化学性能。

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镍锰酸锂 / 磷酸锂 / 包覆 / 电化学性能

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Introduction

As a positive material with a low cost, a high energy density and a good power performance, spinel lithium manganese nickel oxide (LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄) has attracted much attention in the industry of lithium ion battery. Reducing the surface oxygen release behavior and the resolution of Ni or Mn during charging and discharging is a main method to improve the electrochemical performance. The conventional coating technique is to construct a coating layer on the surface of the material particles, which can isolate the electrolyte and reduce side reactions at the interface. Since the solid-phase coating method cannot form the uniform and compact coating layer, the improvement of the electrochemical performance is limited. In this paper, a precursor with Li₃PO₄ layer that was produced by a wet coating method was sintered at 850 ℃. In addition, the impact of coating method was also analyzed by the first-principles calculation and characterizations.

Methods

According to a molar ratio of LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄, a certain amount of Ni_0.25Mn_0.75(OH)₂ precursor and Li₂CO₃ were weighed and mixed. The mixed material was ground in a mortar evenly. Afterwards, the ground material was sintered in a muffle furnace at 950 ℃ for 10 h, finally obtaining a LNMO positive electrode material (i.e., sample P0) after cooling in the furnace.

According to the designed coating amount of 3% Li₃PO₄, NH₄H₂PO₄ and LiOH·H₂O were weighed and sequentially added to alcohol solution with LNMO particles. After stirring and evaporation, the collected products were sintered in a muffle furnace to obtain conventional coating LNMO@Li₃PO₄ material (i.e., sample P1).

Also, Ni_0.25Mn_0.75(OH)₂ precursor was mixed with deionized water in a mass ratio of 1∶5. LiOH·H₂O was added to the coating at 3% under stirring until fully dissolved. Also, NH₄H₂PO₄ was added in another beaker and mixed with deionized water in a mass ratio of 1∶20 until fully dissolved. The above two solutions were mixed thoroughly and filtered. The obtained filtered product was dried in a blast drying oven at 90 ℃ for 24 h to obtain Ni_0.25Mn_0.75(OH)₂ precursor pre-coated with Li₃PO₄. Li₂CO₃ in a ratio of Li:(Ni+Mn) of 1∶2 was mixed evenly with the pre-coated precursor, and heated in a furnace at 950 ℃ for 10 h to obtain a wet coated LNMO cathode material with Li₃PO₄ after cooling (i.e., sample P2).

The morphologies and structures of the cathode materials were examined by a model S-4800 scanning electron microscope (SEM, Hitachi Co., Japan) a model F20 aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (TEM) with a cold field emission gun at 200 kV (TECNAI), and a model Panalytical X'Pert X-ray diffractometer (XRD) in the 2θ range of 10°-75° with Cu K_α radiation (λ=1.540 5 Å). The compositions of TMs in materials were measured by a model IRIS IntrepidⅡinductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscope (ICP-AES, XSP).

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were carried out through a named Vienna ab initio package (VASP), in which the cut-off energy was set to 520 eV for an accurate test, and the projector augmented wave (PAW) was used to describe the interaction between ions and electrons. For the optimization of crystal structures, the exchange correlation function was used as the Perdew-BurkesEmzerhof (PBE) form of generalized gradient approximation (GGA). The lattice vector and the atomic position were sufficiently optimized until the resultant force was less than 0.01 eV/(Å·atom^-1). The Brillouin zone was adopted with a 4×4×4 k-mesh.

Each material was mixed with carbon black and polyvinylidene fluoride binder in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone with a mass ratio of 90∶5∶5 to prepare the electrode slurry. Subsequently, the slurry was casted on the Al foil and dried in vacuum at 100 ℃. Pouch cells were assembled with graphite as an anode, and 1 mol/L LiPF6 solution in EC/EMC/DEC (3∶5∶2 by volume) as an electrolyte. Pouch cells were tested at 3.50-4.95 V and 0.1 C (1 C=150 mA·h·g^-1) for the first cycle on a model Maccor S4000 battery testing system. The cycling performance, EIS, and rate capability at 25 ℃ were tested at 3.5-4.9 V.

Results and discussion

Based on the powder XRD patterns of samples P0, P1, and P2, all the samples have a typical spinel structure, since the Li₃PO₄ coating layer has no impact on the LNMO's crystal structure. The SEM images of samples reveal that the coating process has a slight effect on the surface appearance and particle size distribution. Based on the TEM and SEM-EDS analysis, the coating layer of sample P2 has higher homogeneity than that of sample P1, which can provide a better protective effect and reduce the corrosion of the electrolyte. According to the cycling data, the capacity retention is 90.47%, which is obvious improvement from sample P0 after running 300 cycles, and the superior cycling performance indicates an outstanding structural stability of sample P2, which can be proved by the Mn dissolution data. The capacity retention of 92.45% at 2C discharging can verify that sample P2 has a uniform coating layer. As a result, the precursor pre-coating Li₃PO₄ technique affects the phase structure and morphology of spinel LNMO slightly, and improves the electrical properties effectively.

Conclusions

The main phase structure and micromorphology of spinel LNMO remained unchanged after Li₃PO₄ coating, and the characteristic peak of Li₃PO₄ appeared. The rate discharging and cycling performance was significantly improved, and the charge transfer impedance was reduced by Li₃PO₄ layer. This study indicated that precursor pre-coating Li₃PO₄ technique could be an effective approach to reduce the dissolution of transition metal and could be thus a potential method to improve the electrochemical performance of lithium manganese nickel oxide.

Key words

lithium nickel manganese oxide / lithium phosphate / coating / electrochemical performance

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柳娜. 尖晶石LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄材料表面Li₃PO₄包覆改性与电化学性能. 硅酸盐学报, 2024 , 52 (6) : 2032 -2039 . DOI: 10.14062/j.issn.0454-5648.20230801

Na LIU. Surface Modification and Electrochemical Performance of Spinel LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ Cathode Material with Li₃PO₄ Coating[J]. Journal of the Chinese Ceramic Society, 2024 , 52 (6) : 2032 -2039 . DOI: 10.14062/j.issn.0454-5648.20230801

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