Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery has secondary micro particles having an average particle size (D50) of 1 to 10 ?m formed by agglomeration of primary macro particles having an average particle size (D50) of 0.5 to 3 ?m and a lithium-M oxide coating layer on all or part of a surface, wherein M is at least one selected from the group consisting of boron, cobalt, manganese and magnesium. The secondary macro particles have an average particle size (D50) of 5 to 20 ?m formed by agglomeration of primary micro particles having a smaller average particle size (D50) than the primary macro particles. The primary macro particles and the primary micro particles are represented by LiaNi1?b?c?dCobMncQdO2+?, wherein 1.0?a?1.5, 0<b<0.2, 0<c<0.2, 0?d?0.1, 0<b+c+d?0.2, ?0.1???1.0, and Q is at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, V, Ti and Zr.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery has a mixture of microparticles having a predetermined average particle size (D50) and macroparticles having a larger average particle size (D50) than the microparticles. The microparticles have the average particle size (D50) of 1 to 10 ?m and are at least one selected from the group consisting of particles having a carbon material coating layer on all or part of a surface of primary macroparticles having an average particle size (D50) of 1 ?m or more, particles having a carbon material coating layer on all or part of a surface of secondary particles formed by agglomeration of the primary macroparticles, and a mixture thereof. The macroparticles are secondary particles having an average particle size (D50) of 5 to 20 ?m formed by agglomeration of primary microparticles having a smaller average particle size (D50) than the primary macroparticles.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery which includes a nickel-based lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide satisfies Equation 1 and Equation 2 below 80 nm?crystallite sizeFWHM?150 nm??[Equation 1] ?size(|crystallite sizeIB?crystallite sizeFWHM|)?20??[Equation 2] wherein, in Equation 1 and Equation 2, crystallite sizeFWHM is a crystallite size obtained by calculating from X-ray diffraction (XRD) data using a full width at half maximum (FWHM) method, and crystallite sizeIB is a crystallite size obtained by calculating from XRD data using an integral breadth (IB) method.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a secondary particle having an average particle size (D50) of 1 to 10 ?m formed by agglomeration of at least two primary macro particles having an average particle size (D50) of 0.5 to 3 ?m; and a coating layer of lithium-metal oxide formed on a surface of the secondary particle. The primary macro particle is represented by LiaNi1-b-c-dCobMncQdO2+?, wherein 1.0?a?1.5, 0<b<0.2, 0<c<0.2, 0?d?0.1, 0<b+c+d?0.2, ?0.1???1.0, Q is at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, V, Ti and Zr. The metal of the lithium-metal oxide is at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of manganese, nickel, vanadium and cobalt, and an amount of lithium impurities is 0.25 weight % or less.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material having at least one secondary particle comprising an agglomerate of primary macro particles, a method for preparing the same and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same are provided. A positive electrode active material has improved capacity retention by controlling a BET change in an electrode rolling process.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), and a glassy coating layer formed on surfaces of particles of the lithium composite transition metal oxide, wherein, in the lithium composite transition metal oxide, an amount of the nickel (Ni) in a total amount of transition metals is 60 mol % or more, and an amount of the manganese (Mn) is greater than an amount of the cobalt (Co), and the glassy coating layer includes a glassy compound represented by Formula 1. LiaM1bOc??[Formula 1] wherein, M1 is at least one selected from the group consisting of boron (B), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), titanium (Ti), and phosphorus (P), and 1?a?4, 1?b?8, and 1?c?20.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material having low nickel disorder and high particle strength in a crystal structure, and capable of implementing a battery having excellent capacity properties and capacity retention, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same, wherein the positive electrode active material includes a large-diameter lithium transition metal oxide and a small-diameter lithium transition metal oxide whose average particle diameter (D50) is smaller than that of the large-diameter lithium transition metal oxide, wherein the large-diameter lithium transition metal oxide and the small-diameter lithium transition metal oxide each independently have a composition represented by Formula 1, and has a crystal grain size of 100 nm to 150 nm, wherein the difference in crystal grain size between the large-diameter lithium transition metal oxide and the small-diameter lithium transition metal oxide is less than 40 nm, and the positive electrode a

Abstract: A method of preparing a positive electrode active material is disclosed herein. The method may ensure surface and coating uniformity of first and second lithium transition metal oxides in the positive electrode active material. In some embodiments, the method includes washing a mixture of a first lithium transition metal oxide having a first Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) specific surface area and a second lithium transition metal oxide having a second BET specific surface area with a washing solution, an amount of the washing solution based on 100 parts by weight of the mixture satisfies Equation 1: 5,000×(x1w1+x2w2)?the amount of the washing solution ?15,000×(x1w1+x2w2), x1 and x2 are the first and second BET specific surface areas, respectively, and w1 and w2 are weight ratios of the first and second lithium transition metal oxides based on a total weight of the mixture, respectively.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material comprising at least one secondary particle comprising an agglomerate of primary macro particles, a method for preparing the same and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, it is possible to improve the electrical conductivity of the positive electrode active material surface by coating a conductive carbon material on the surface of the secondary particle. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a nickel-based positive electrode active material with improved life performance by minimizing conductive network losses after cycles.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), and a glassy coating layer formed on surfaces of particles of the lithium composite transition metal oxide, wherein, in the lithium composite transition metal oxide, an amount of the nickel (Ni) in a total amount of transition metals is 60 mol % or more, and an amount of the manganese (Mn) is greater than an amount of the cobalt (Co), and the glassy coating layer includes a glassy compound represented by Formula 1. LiaM1bOc??[Formula 1] wherein, M1 is at least one selected from the group consisting of boron (B), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), titanium (Ti), and phosphorus (P), and 1?a?4, 1?b?8, and 1?c?20.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a positive electrode active material includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide containing nickel, cobalt, and manganese and having a nickel content for 60 mol % or more, based on metals (M) excluding lithium, and is in the form of single particles having an average particle diameter (D50) of 1 to 10 ?m, wherein a 100-nm region extending from the surface toward the center of a single particle has crystal structures of a Fd3M and a Fm3m space group, and a phase ratio is 0.2 to 0.7, which is a ratio of a first portion of a maximum straight length of the 100-nm region occupied by the crystal structure of the Fd3M space group to a second portion occupied by the crystal structure of the Fm3m space group.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material, method of making the same, and positive electrode and lithium secondary battery include the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a positive electrode active material in a form of single particles, includes a lithium transition metal oxide having nickel (Ni) in an amount greater than 50 mol % based on a total number of moles of transition metals excluding lithium, wherein a single particle has a region of 50 nm or less from a surface of the single particle along a center direction, and wherein a structure belonging to space group FD3-M and a structure belonging to space group Fm3m are formed in the region, and wherein a generation rate of fine powder having an average particle diameter (D50) of 1 ?m or less is in a range of 5% to 30% when the positive electrode active material is rolled at 650 kgf/cm2.

Abstract: Provided are various embodiments of a positive electrode for a secondary battery, which in one embodiment includes a first positive electrode material mixture layer formed on a positive electrode collector, and a second positive electrode material mixture layer formed on the first positive electrode material mixture layer, wherein the first positive electrode material mixture layer has an operating voltage of 4.25 V to 6.0 V and includes an active material for overcharge which generates lithium and gas during charge; a method of preparing such a positive electrode for a secondary battery; and a lithium secondary battery including such a positive electrode.

Abstract: A spinel-structured lithium manganese-based positive electrode active material includes a lithium manganese oxide represented by Formula 1, and a coating layer which is disposed on a surface of the lithium manganese oxide and includes at least one coating element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, titanium, tungsten, boron, fluorine, phosphorus, magnesium, nickel, cobalt, iron, chromium, vanadium, copper, calcium, zinc, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, strontium, antimony, bismuth, silicon, and sulfur, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode active material, Li1+aMn2?bM1bO4?cAc??[Formula 1] wherein, in Formula 1, M1 is at least one metallic element including lithium (Li), A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine, and sulfur, 0?a?0.2, 0<b?0.5, and 0?c?0.1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive electrode material for a secondary battery, the positive electrode material including a first positive electrode active material and a second positive electrode active material, the first positive electrode active material and the second positive electrode active material being single particle types and lithium composite transition metal oxides including nickel, cobalt, and manganese and having a nickel content accounting for 60 mol % or more of total metals except for lithium, wherein the first positive electrode active material has a mean particle diameter (D50) of 3 ?m or less and a molar ratio (Li/M) of lithium to the metals (M) except for lithium of 1.10 to 1.20, and the second positive electrode active material has a mean particle diameter (D50) of greater than 3 ?m and a molar ratio (Li/M) of lithium to the metals (M) except for lithium of 1.00 to 1.13.

Abstract: A method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes mixing a positive electrode active material precursor, a lithium source material, a first firing additive, a second firing additive, and a third firing additive a to form a mixture, wherein the positive electrode active material precursor contains nickel, cobalt, and manganese and has a nickel content of 60 mol % or more relative to a total molar amount of metals in the positive electrode active material precursor, and performing primary firing of the mixture to form a lithium transition metal oxide, wherein the first firing additive is a lithium-containing compound, the second firing additive is a carbonate ion-containing compound, and the third firing additive is a boron-containing compound.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode material including a spinel-structured lithium manganese-based first positive electrode active material and a lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt-based second positive electrode active material, wherein the first positive electrode active material includes a lithium manganese oxide represented by Formula 1 and a coating layer which is disposed on a surface of the lithium manganese oxide, the second positive electrode active material is represented by Formula 2, and an average particle diameter of the second positive electrode active material is greater than an average particle diameter of the first positive electrode active material, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode material: Li1+aMn2?bM1bO4?cAc??[Formula 1] Li1+x[NiyCozMnwM2v]O2?pBp??[Formula 2]

Abstract: A method of preparing an octahedral-structured lithium manganese-based positive electrode active material includes mixing a manganese raw material, a raw material including doping element M1, wherein the doping element M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Al, Li, Zn, B, W, Ni, Co, Fe, Cr, V, Ru, Cu, Cd, Ag, Y, Sc, Ga, In, As, Sb, Pt, Au, and Si, and a lithium raw material and sintering the mixture in an oxygen atmosphere to prepare a lithium manganese oxide having an octahedral structure and doped with the doping element M1, wherein the sintering includes performing first sintering at 400° C. to 700° C. for 3 hours to 10 hours and performing second sintering at 700° C. to 900° C. for 10 hours to 20 hours. Also provided is an octahedral-structured lithium manganese-based positive electrode active material prepared by the above preparation method.

Abstract: In one arrangement, the present disclosure relates to a positive electrode active material including a nickel-cobalt-manganese-based lithium transition metal oxide which contains nickel in an amount of 60 mol % or more based on a total number of moles of metals excluding lithium, wherein the nickel-cobalt-manganese-based lithium transition metal oxide is doped with doping element M1 (where the doping element M1 is a metallic element including Al) and doping element M2 (where the doping element M2 is at least one metallic element selected from the group consisting of Mg, La, Ti, Zn, B, W, Ni, Co, Fe, Cr, V, Ru, Cu, Cd, Ag, Y, Sc, Ga, In, As, Sb, Pt, Au, and Si), where the doping element M1 can be in an amount of 100 ppm to 10,000 ppm, and the doping element M1 and the doping element M2 are included in a weight ratio of 50:50 to 99:1.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, the positive electrode active material being a lithium composite transition metal oxide particle including nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) and including at least one of manganese (Mn) and aluminum (Al), wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide particle includes 60 mol % or greater of the nickel (Ni) in all metals excluding lithium, a doping element is doped on the lithium composite transition metal oxide particle, and the particle intensity of the lithium composite transition metal oxide particle is 210 MPa to 290 MPa.