Lithium zirconium oxychloride is a new solid-state electrolyte and is expected to be widely used in the field of solid-state batteries in the future.

Lithium zirconium oxychloride is a solid electrolyte material made of zirconium oxychloride, hydrated zirconium chloride and lithium chloride as base materials. Lithium zirconium oxychloride has the advantages of high room temperature ionic conductivity, good deformability, improved battery durability, and low production cost. It is expected to be widely used in the production process of solid-state batteries in the future.

In recent years, my country’s enthusiasm for research and development of solid electrolytes has continued to rise, and many new developments have been made. In May 2023, the Institute of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences collaborated to successfully prepare a new zirconium-based oxychloride solid-state electrolyte using lithium oxide, zirconium tetrachloride and lithium chloride, which has good thermal stability and chemical stability. It has advantages such as good stability; in July 2023, Professor Ma Cheng from the University of Science and Technology of China successfully developed a new solid-state electrolyte based on oxychloride-lithium zirconium oxychloride. This product has extremely low production costs and can effectively improve the solid-state electrolyte. Battery cycle life and charging speed.

According to the “2023-2028 China Zirconium Oxychloride Lithium Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center It shows that the main base material of lithium zirconium oxychloride is zirconium oxychloride. Zirconium oxychloride is an inorganic chemical product with a white needle-like crystal appearance. It has the advantages of good heat resistance, high melting point, low thermal conductivity, and good oxidation resistance. It is widely used in functional ceramics, electronic and electrical, synthetic fibers, Synthetic rubber and many other fields have broad application prospects. my country is the world’s largest producer and exporter of zirconium oxychloride, with dozens of related companies. The sufficient supply of raw materials will lay a good foundation for the development of my country’s zirconium oxychloride lithium industry.

Compared with liquid batteries, solid-state batteries have the advantages of good safety and large storage capacity, and have broad application prospects in the field of power batteries. In January 2023, six departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the “Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of the Energy Electronics Industry”. The document clearly proposed to accelerate the research and development of new batteries such as sodium-ion batteries and solid-state batteries. Driven by positive factors such as national policy support and technological innovation, the commercialization process of solid-state batteries in my country has accelerated. Lithium zirconium oxychloride has excellent performance and low production cost, and will be widely used in the field of solid-state batteries in the future.

At present, my country’s zirconium oxychloride lithium industry is in its infancy, focusing on laboratory research and development, and there are no companies with large-scale production capabilities. As the main manufacturer of zirconium oxychloride in my country, Sanxiang New Materials has begun to increase its investment in the research and development of zirconium-based solid-state battery electrolytes and its raw materials, and is expected to become a representative enterprise of zirconium oxychloride lithium in the future.

Industry analysts said that in recent years, my country’s enthusiasm for solid-state electrolyte lithium research and development has continued to rise, driving the prosperity of the solid-state battery industry to continue to increase. As a new solid-state electrolyte, the production cost of lithium zirconium oxychloride is only 4% of that of chloride solid electrolyte. In the future, as the technical level of local enterprises improves and the commercialization process of solid-state batteries accelerates, my country’s lithium zirconium oxychloride is expected to achieve large-scale production.