MICROSTRUCTURE TUNING OF CATHODE MATERIAL
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:EP4421192A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-28

    申请号:EP23164160.6

    申请日:2023-03-24

    IPC分类号: C22B3/06 H01M10/54

    摘要: A recycling process for Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries includes a selective leach of charge material metals followed by impurity control for effecting microstructures such as a pore volume and surface area for optimal structures and charge performance. Particle characteristics having a favorable effect on performance correlate with soluble impurities in a recycling leach solution formed from spent charge material in a battery recycling stream. Spent batteries yield a black mass of agitated, comingled cathode material, anode material and current collectors. Leaching of the black mass yields a recycling solution of charge material metals and impurities. Selective adjustment of these impurities through adding and/or separating soluble ions in the solution drives formation of internal voids, surface area and pore volume in the resulting cathode material.