Lg Chem, Ltd

Sang Soon Choi

Seung Beom Cho

Seong Hoon Kang

Dong Mok Shin

Min Kyu You

Young Ji Tae

Byeong In Ahn

Kyung Lok Lee

Hyuck Lee

Se Hwan Son

Jong Pil Kim

Ick Soon Kwak

Woo Ram Lee

Hwa Seok Chae

Dong Jin Kim

Hyun Uk Kim

Won Sig Jung

Hyun Ah Park

Woo Hyun Kim

Young Su Park

Ji A Shin

Myung Gi Jeong

Jae Geun Kim

Jung Ho Lim

San Su Son

Eung Ju Lee

Chang Wan Chae

Sang Won Woo

Jin Wook Ju

Dong Ryoung Kang

Chang Hoon Sin

Na Ri Kim

Jun Gil Kim

Gyeong Il Yoo

A method of preparing a positive electrode material is provided. The method includes mixing a first positive electrode active material precursor having an average particle diameter (D) of 10 μm to 30 μm with a lithium-containing raw material and pre-sintering the mixture to obtain a first pre-sintered product, mixing a second positive electrode active material precursor having an average particle diameter (D) different from that of the first positive electrode active material precursor with a lithium-containing raw material and pre-sintering the mixture to obtain a second pre-sintered product, disintegrating each of the first pre-sintered product and the second pre-sintered product, and mixing the disintegrated first pre-sintered product and the disintegrated second pre-sintered product and main-sintering the mixture to obtain a positive electrode material.

Method of preparing positive electrode material for lithium secondary battery and positive electrode material for lithium secondary battery prepared thereby

A method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes preparing a positive electrode active material precursor containing 60 mol % or more of nickel (Ni) among total metals, mixing the positive electrode active material precursor and a lithium raw material source and performing primary pre-sintering in an oxidizing atmosphere to form a pre-sintered product, and performing secondary main sintering on the pre-sintered product in an air atmosphere to form a lithium transition metal oxide.

Method of preparing positive electrode active material for secondary battery

A method for preparing a positive electrode active material includes: a step for adding a reaction mixture containing a lithium-raw material and a nickel-manganese-cobalt precursor into a first crucible and performing a first heat treatment at a temperature of 500-800° C. to form a pre-sintered mixture; a step for extracting the pre-sintered mixture from the first crucible and pulverizing or classifying the same; and a step for adding the pulverized or classified pre-sintered mixture into a second crucible and performing a second heat treatment at a temperature of 700-1000° C. under an atmosphere in which an oxygen partial pressure is 20% or less to form a lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt-based positive electrode active material, wherein a volume of the pre-sintered mixture formed after the first heat treatment is reduced to a volume that is 20-50% of a volume of the reaction mixture added into the first crucible.

Method for preparing positive electrode active material

A lithium secondary battery is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a lithium secondary battery includes: a battery case having an interior region, a separator, wherein the separator divides the interior region into a first region and a second region, a positive electrode formed in the first region and including a positive electrode active material and positive electrode current collector particles; and a negative electrode formed in the second region and including a negative electrode active material and negative electrode current collector particles.

Lithium secondary battery and production method thereof

A method of preparing a positive electrode active material is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the method includes firing a first mixture at 400° C. to 700° C. to prepare a primary firing product, wherein the first mixture has a positive electrode active material precursor having a specific composition, a first lithium-containing source material, and optionally, an aluminum-containing source material, and firing a second mixture at a temperature above the firing temperature of the first mixture to prepare a positive electrode active material, wherein the second mixture has the primary firing product, a second lithium-containing source material, and a specific doping element M-containing source material. The method is capable of degrading the cake strength of a primary firing product and providing a positive electrode active material having excellent quality by dividing a firing process into two steps.

Method of preparing positive electrode active material

A method of washing a positive electrode active material includes (1) preparing a lithium composite transition metal oxide which contains Ni, Co and Mn, and has the Ni content of 60 mol % or more; (2) putting the lithium composite transition metal oxide into water; and (3) adding a weak acid to water to which the lithium composite transition metal oxide is added to adjust the pH to 7 to 10, wherein the acid is a weak acid.

Method of washing positive electrode active material, and positive electrode active material prepared thereby

A positive electrode for a secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material layer, which includes a positive electrode active material including a lithium transition metal oxide which contains nickel, cobalt, and manganese and has an atomic ratio of nickel in total transition metals of 80 atm % or more, and a metal oxide including a metallic element having a binding potential with lithium of 0.5 V to 4 V. A secondary battery including the positive electrode is also provided.

Positive electrode having lithium transition metal oxide containing nickel, cobalt and manganese for secondary battery and secondary battery including the same

A positive electrode active material includes a lithium transition metal oxide, in which a cobalt content in the lithium transition metal oxide is less than a manganese content, wherein at least one of nickel, cobalt, and manganese in the lithium transition metal oxide has a concentration gradient that gradually changes from a center of a particle to a surface thereof, the positive electrode active material is in the form of a secondary particle formed by agglomeration of primary particles, and a ratio in which angles between c-axis directions, which are measured at at least 8 points on a surface of the positive electrode active material by TEM analysis, and a growth direction of the particle at the measuring point satisfy 85&#xb0; to 95&#xb0; is 60% or more.

Positive electrode active material for lithium secondary battery, method of preparing the same, and positive electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material

A method of preparing a positive electrode active material which includes forming a pre-sintered mixture by adding a reaction mixture including a lithium raw material and a nickel-manganese-cobalt precursor to a first crucible and performing a primary heat treatment at a temperature of 500&#xb0; C. to 800&#xb0; C., and, after discharging the pre-sintered mixture from the first crucible, adding the pre-sintered mixture to a second crucible and performing a secondary heat treatment at a temperature of 700&#xb0; C. to 1,000&#xb0; C. to form a lithium nickel manganese cobalt-based positive electrode active material, wherein a volume of the pre-sintered mixture formed after the primary heat treatment is 20% to 50% of a volume of the reaction mixture added to the first crucible.

The present invention provides a method of preparing a positive electrode active material precursor for a lithium secondary battery, a method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery in which the positive electrode active material precursor prepared by using the above method is used, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material.

Method for preparing positive electrode active material precursor for lithium secondary battery

A method of preparing a positive electrode active material precursor for a lithium secondary battery by using a batch-type reactor, which includes the steps of 1) forming positive electrode active material precursor particles while continuously adding a transition metal-containing solution including a transition metal cation, an aqueous alkaline solution, and an ammonium ion-containing solution to a batch-type reactor, 2) sedimenting the positive electrode active material precursor particles formed; 3) discharging a supernatant formed after the sedimentation of the positive electrode active material precursor particles to an outside; 4) adjusting a pH to 10 to 12 by adding the ammonium ion-containing solution; and 5) growing the positive electrode active material precursor particles while continuously again adding the transition metal-containing solution to the batch-type reactor, and a method of preparing a positive electrode active material using the same.

Methods of preparing positive electrode active material precursor for lithium secondary battery and positive electrode active material

The present disclosure relates to a precursor of a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery including a single layer-structured secondary particle in which pillar-shaped primary particles radially oriented in a surface direction from the particle center are aggregated, wherein the secondary particle has a shell shape, and the primary particle includes a composite metal hydroxide of Ni&#x2014;Co&#x2014;Mn of the following Chemical Formula 1, and a positive electrode active material prepared using the same:NiCoMMn(OH)&#x2003;&#x2003;[Chemical Formula 1] In Chemical Formula 1, M, x, y and z have the same definitions as in the specification.

Precursor of positive electrode active material for secondary battery and positive electrode active material prepared using the same

Provided are a method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, in which the positive electrode active material is uniformly doped with various doping elements without worrying about surface damage of the active material and characteristics degradation by including mixing a metal precursor for a positive electrode active material and a raw material including a doping element, in which an average particle diameter ratio is in a range of 5:1 to 2,000:1, using acoustic resonance to prepare a precursor doped with the doping element, and mixing the doped precursor with a lithium raw material and performing a heat treatment, and a positive electrode active material which has improved structure stability by being prepared by the above method and may improve battery characteristics, for example, capacity reduction may be minimized and cycle characteristics may be improved when used in the battery.

Method of preparing positive electrode active material for secondary battery and positive electrode active material for secondary battery prepared thereby

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