Sk on Co., Ltd.

Sk Innovation Co., Ltd.

Dong Wook Ha

Ji Hoon Choi

Sang Bok Kim

Mi Jung Noh

Ji Min Kim

Jik Soo Kim

Jong Hyuk Lee

In Haeng Cho

Sung Real Son

Sang Han Lee

Yeon Hwa La

Suk Joon Hong

Tae Kyoung Lee

Dong Il Jang

Ji Yun Park

Hyeon Jung Kim

In a method of recovering an active metal of a lithium secondary battery, a cathode active material mixture is prepared from a waste cathode of a lithium secondary. The cathode active material mixture is reacted with a reductive reaction gas to form a preliminary precursor mixture having a reduction degree of transition metal defined by Equation 1 in a range from 0.24 to 1.6. A lithium precursor is recovered from the preliminary precursor mixture. A lithium recovery ration is improved by adjusting the reduction degree of transition metal.

Method for recovering active metal of lithium secondary battery

A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery is provided. According to embodiments of the present invention, the cathode active material includes a lithium-transition metal composite oxide particle including a plurality of primary particles. The lithium-transition metal composite oxide particle has a lithium-boron-containing portion formed between the primary particles. Thereby, it is possible to improve life-span properties and capacity properties by removing residual lithium.

Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same

A cathode for a lithium secondary battery includes a cathode current collector, and a cathode active material layer on the cathode current collector. The cathode active material layer includes a plurality of a lithium-metal oxide particle that has a shape of a single particle. An activation energy (Ea) of the cathode is in a range from 50 kJ/mol to 80 kJ/mol.

Method of preparing cathode active material, cathode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery

In a method of manufacturing a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a preliminary lithium metal oxide particle is prepared. The preliminary lithium metal oxide particle is cleaned using a boron compound cleaning solution. A cathode active material for a lithium secondary particle includes a lithium metal oxide particle where a ratio of a B+ peak intensity relative to a sum of peak intensities of Li+, B+ and LiB+ fragments by a TOF-SIMS analysis is in a range from 0.03% to 1.5%.

Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same

In a method for regenerating a lithium precursor, a lithium-containing waste mixture is put into a reactor. An inside of the reactor is replaced with carbon dioxide. Temperature raising treatment is performed on the lithium-containing waste mixture and the carbon dioxide to produce lithium carbonate and a transition metal-containing mixture. The lithium precursor may be recovered with high yield and high efficiency through dry treatment using carbon dioxide.

Method of regenerating lithium precursor

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Dong Wook Ha