	US 12,155,071 B2
	Particulate material, method for its manufacture and use
Young Jin Kim, Beachwood, OH (US); James A. Sioss, Beachwood, OH (US); Tobias Maximilian Teufl, Poing (DE); and Jordan K. Lampert, Cleveland, OH (US)
Assigned to BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
Appl. No. 17/635,347
Filed by BASF SE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/073366 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 14, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/037678, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19194088 (EP), filed on Aug. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0278324 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 4/525 (2010.01); C01G 53/00 (2006.01); H01M 4/02 (2006.01); H01M 4/505 (2010.01); H01M 4/62 (2006.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01)

CPC H01M 4/525 (2013.01) [C01G 53/44 (2013.01); H01M 4/505 (2013.01); H01M 4/623 (2013.01); H01M 4/625 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); C01P 2002/50 (2013.01); C01P 2004/61 (2013.01); C01P 2006/11 (2013.01); C01P 2006/40 (2013.01); H01M 2004/028 (2013.01)]

12 Claims

1. A particulate material with a composition Li_1+xTM_1−xO₂,

wherein x ranges from 0.1 to 0.2 and TM is a combination of elements according to general formula (I)

(Ni_aCo_bMn_c)_1−dM¹_d (I)

wherein

a ranges from 0.30 to 0.38,

b ranges from zero to 0.05,

c ranges from 0.60 to 0.70, and

0≤d0.05,

M¹is chosen from Al, Ti, Zr, Mo, Mg, B, and combinations of at least two of the foregoing,

a+b+c=1,

wherein the particulate material has an average particle diameter D50 ranging from about 2 μm to about 20 μm, and

wherein the particulate material has a pressed density ranging from about 2.75 g/cm³to 3.2 g/cm³, as determined at a pressure of 250 MPa.