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- Patent Title: Process for making cathode materials for lithium ion batteries
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Application No.: US16509749Application Date: 2019-07-12
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Publication No.: US11165063B2Publication Date: 2021-11-02
- Inventor: Aleksei Volkov , Jordan Lampert , Thomas Michael Ryll , Ji-Yong Shin , Markus Hoelzle , Michael Eder
- Applicant: BASF SE
- Applicant Address: DE Ludwigshafen
- Assignee: BASF SE
- Current Assignee: BASF SE
- Current Assignee Address: DE Ludwigshafen
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
- Priority: EP14174991 20140630
- Main IPC: H01M4/02
- IPC: H01M4/02 ; H01M4/525 ; H01M10/0567 ; H01M10/42 ; C01G53/00 ; H01M4/131 ; H01M4/505 ; H01M10/0525 ; H01M10/052

Abstract:
Process for making a particulate material of general formula (I), Li1+x(NiaCobMncMd)1−xO2 (I) wherein the integers are defined as follows: M is selected from Al and Ti, x is in the range of from 0.015 to 0.03, a is in the range of from 0.3 to 0.6, b is in the range of from 0.05 to 0.35, c is in the range of from 0.2 to 0.5, d is in the range of from 0.001 to 0.03, with a+b+c+d=1 said process comprising the following steps: (a) co-precipitating a mixed hydroxide of nickel, cobalt and manganese from a solution of water-soluble salts of nickel, cobalt and manganese by contacting such solution with a solution of alkali metal hydroxide, (b) adding an aqueous solution of an aluminate or titanate and thereby co-precipitating a layer of a mixed hydroxide of nickel and cobalt and manganese and aluminium or titanium on the particles formed in step (a), (c) removing particles of (NiaCobMncAld)(OH)2+d or (NiaCobMncTid)(OH)2+2d so obtained and drying them in the presence of oxygen, (d) mixing the particles obtained in step (c) with at least one Li compound selected from Li2O, LiOH and Li2CO3, (e) calcining the mixture obtained according to step (d) at a temperature in the range of from 920 to 950° C.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190386305A1 PROCESS FOR MAKING CATHODE MATERIALS FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES Public/Granted day:2019-12-19
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