US 12,286,361 B2
Lithium nickel oxide particulate material, method for its manufacture and use
Benjamin Johannes Herbert Bergner, Ludwigshafen (DE); Heino Sommer, Ludwigshafen (DE); Pascal Hartmann, Ludwigshafen (DE); and Tobias Maximilian Teufl, Poing (DE)
Assigned to BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
Appl. No. 17/595,329
Filed by BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/066814
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/260102, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19183347 (EP), filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0212950 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. C01G 53/42 (2025.01); H01M 4/02 (2006.01); H01M 4/525 (2010.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01)
CPC C01G 53/42 (2013.01) [H01M 4/525 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); C01P 2006/40 (2013.01); H01M 2004/027 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A particulate material of the composition Li1+xTM1-xO2 wherein:
x ranges from −0.02 to +0.05,
TM comprises at least 93 mol −% nickel, and
(A) at least one element M1 chosen from Nb, Ta, Ti, Zr, W, and Mo,
(B) at least one element M2 chosen from B, Al, Mg and Ga;
wherein the particulate material has an average particle diameter (D50) ranging from 2 μm to 20 μm.