The present disclosure relates to lithium ion batteries, more particularly to a positive electrode material for a lithium ion battery and a method for preparing the same.
Lithium ion batteries are a type of secondary battery and have advantages such as high specific energy, high cell voltage, long cycle life, and the like. They have been widely used in fields such as mobile phones, laptops, and the like. The various components of a lithium ion battery, mainly including positive electrode materials, separators, electrolytes and negative electrode materials, have their own functions. The electrode materials are key components of a battery, which may determine the generation of electrical energy. Compared with negative electrode materials, positive electrode materials are the most important factor affecting battery performances. They may directly determine the capacity and cycle performance of a lithium ion battery. It is necessary to develop more optimized positive electrode materials to match the demand on further improving the safety and specific energy of a battery.
Ternary materials have been proposed as positive electrode materials for batteries. The ternary material may have a formula of LiNixCoyM1-x-yO2 (wherein M is Mn or Al). They may be divided into NCM and NCA according to the different types of the metal M. They have become one of the mainstream choices for positive electrode materials and have been widely developed and applied.