Lg Chem, Ltd

Lg Energy Solution, Ltd.

Jin-Young Son

Sang-Hoon Choy

Hyung-Suk Cho

Taek-Soo Lee

Jong-Heon Seol

Hwi-Soo Yang

Je-Young Kim

Woo-Ha Kim

Jung-Min Yang

Cheol-Woo Kim

Ki-Won Sung

Chan-Soo Jun

Do-Hwa Jung

Hyun-Sik Chae

Jung-Keun Yoo

Yoon-Jung Choi

Yo-Jin Kim

Sung-Joon Park

Hyun-Won Lee

Ga-Hyun Lim

Sin-Young Jung

A method for evaluating phase stability of an electrode mixture slurry, including the steps of: (S1) introducing the electrode mixture slurry to a rheometer; (S2) applying a first shear rate to the electrode mixture slurry; (S3) applying a second shear rate after applying the first shear rate to the electrode mixture slurry, wherein the second shear rate is higher than the first shear rate; (S4) applying a third shear rate after applying the second shear rate to the electrode mixture slurry, wherein the third shear rate is lower than the second shear rate; and (S5) comparing the shear viscosity at the first shear rate with the shear viscosity at the third shear rate. An apparatus for evaluating phase stability of the electrode mixture slurry is also provided.

Method and apparatus for evaluating phase stability of electrode mixture slurry

Disclosed is a dissolution mixer, which includes: a dissolution bath configured to accommodate a powder and a solvent for dissolving the powder; a powder input unit located at an outer side of the dissolution bath; an impeller installed to be rotatable inside the dissolution bath; and an anchor located inside the dissolution bath and having a passage of the powder inputted by the powder input unit and a powder spouting hole connected to the passage.

Dissolution mixer

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electrode for a lithium secondary battery, including the steps of: (S1) dry mixing a conductive material and an electrode active material; (S2) dry mixing the resultant product of step (S1) with a binder to obtain electrode mixture powder; and (S3) applying the electrode mixture powder to at least one surface of a current collector. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, electrode mixture powder is prepared without using a solvent and is applied to a current collector to provide an electrode. Thus, there is no need for a separate drying step. Therefore, the binder and conductive material coated on the surface of electrode active material cause no surface migration phenomenon. As a result, it is possible to prevent degradation of the adhesion of the electrode, and thus to prevent degradation of the performance of the lithium secondary battery.

Method for manufacturing electrode for lithium secondary battery

Disclosed is a system for manufacturing an electrode for a secondary battery, which includes an active material drying unit configured to dry an active material coated on an electrode current collector, and a tester unit configured to measure a dried state of the active material by performing a scratch test to the dried active material.

System for manufacturing electrode for secondary battery having scratch tester

Disclosed is a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery which uses a positive electrode active material containing secondary particles with a relatively weak particle strength to improve the adhesion between a positive electrode mixture layer and a current collector, and the positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector; a primer coating layer including a first polymer binder and a first conductive material, having surface roughness (R) of 85 nm to 300 nm and formed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector; and a positive electrode mixture layer formed on an upper surface of the primer coating layer and including a positive electrode active material containing secondary particles with a compressive breaking strength of 1 to 15 MPa, a second polymer binder and a second conductive material.

Positive electrode for lithium secondary battery and method for preparing the same

An apparatus for coating electrode active material slurry includes: a transfer unit continuously transferring an electrode current collector in a predetermined process direction; and a coating die which is reciprocally movable in the process direction or an opposite direction to the process direction and coats the active material slurry on a predetermined coating area of the electrode current collector transferred by the transfer unit, wherein the coating die stands by at a predetermined coating start position and, when a balcony region corresponding to a leading end of the coating area reaches the coating start position, coats the active material slurry on the balcony region while moving from the coating start position to a main coating position that is spaced apart from the coating start position by a predetermined distance in the opposite direction.

Apparatus and method for coating electrode active material slurry

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Daejeon, South Korea

Jin-Young Son