Thursday, March 12, 2009

Dynamic safety of lithium-ion battery cathode materials and design influence(b)

On the data obtained at home and abroad, LiCoO2 used to power batteries of greater security risks, not generally as the motive power apple laptop battery cathode materials; LiMn2O4 the use of more common; nickel and cobalt LiMn2O4 domestic use less, China Taiwan and Japan that some manufacturers use. Because manganese is rich in resources (in particular China, the world’s reserves of the third), low-cost, environmentally friendly, and LiMn2O4 a high-voltage discharge, the technology is mature, security, and other layered structure of the cathode material can not be compared High-rate charge and discharge capacity of the advantages and thus present in the promotion of lithium-powered batteries, LiMn2O4 has great advantages. Although relatively lower than capacity, but the larger battery is not in itself constitute a significant weakness. LiMn2O4 cathode materials for the lithium-ion powerbook g4 battery, powerbook g4 15inch, a1012, a1148 batteries assembly has a good safety and thermal stability. However, there are also LiMn2O4 capacity fading fast (especially in high-temperature conditions), the short life cycle of the shortcomings that impedes the process of actually used. Nickel and cobalt LiMn2O4 material than are the advantages of high capacity, superior performance cycle. Made of lithium-ion battery has a very high energy density, suitable for severe restrictions on weight and volume but high-energy requirements of the field. As the use of the cobalt, nickel and other metals, nickel and cobalt prices LiMn2O4 after LiCoO2. However, nickel and cobalt manganese lithium-acid battery applications in force yet to be assessed on the domestic application of the material is usually the way through doping modified to improve its safety performance, but did not see the size of the application. Lithium iron acer laptop battery phosphate rich source of raw materials, low prices, higher than the capacity and excellent high-temperature cycle performance and high safety performance advantages, is very dynamic development prospects of battery cathode materials. Lithium iron phosphate as a new type of battery cathode materials for use in recent years have warming trend. Since the patent restrictions, Europe and North America to mass production of lithium iron phosphate battery of small manufacturers, ibm ThinkPad X60 battery basically been monopolized by a few manufacturers. Although many domestic manufacturers of lithium-ion iron phosphate lithium battery research and development into production, but due to technical and system-level differences in product quality varied. Additives, electrolyte safety Lithium-ion battery power also affected the design of the btp-43d1, travelmate 220 battery, btp-58a1, btp-60a1 of security.