Zirconia-coated lithium cobalt oxideas a long-cycling cathode for lithium batteries

• Main Authors: Jiun-Da Huang, 黃俊達
• Other Authors: Tin-Kuo Fey
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69334100939596522133

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 化學工程與材料工程研究所 === 92 === A commercial sample of LiCoO2 was coated with ZrO2 by sol-gel and mechano-thermal processes. The effects of the coating method and the precursor used in the sol-gel coating process were studied. Electron microscopic images of the coated particles revealed the presence of a compact coating over the cathode particles. XRD and ESCA results suggested the formation of substitutional compounds of the composition LixZryCo1–yO2+0.5y on the surface of the cathode. Coating levels of 0.3 and 1.0 wt.% were found to be optimal in terms of cyclability for the materials coated by the sol-gel and mechano-thermal methods, respectively. At these coating levels, the R-factor values, determined from XRD data, were the lowest. The maximum improvements in cyclability registered at a 0.2 C rate were about eight-fold with the sol-gel and mechano-thermal coating methods. Cyclic voltammetric studies showed that the coating led to a suppression of the cycle-limiting phase transitions accompanying the charge-discharge processes.