Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a battery, an apparatus using a battery, and a manufacturing method and a manufacturing device of battery. The battery includes a battery cell and a thermal management component. The battery cell has a side wall and a bottom wall that are connected to each other. The thermal management component is configured to accommodate fluid to regulate temperature of the battery cell, where an accommodating portion is provided on the thermal management component, and configured to accommodate the battery cell, and the accommodating portion is attached to the bottom wall and side wall of the battery cell, to enable heat transfer between the battery cell and the thermal management component. The battery cell in the battery provided in the embodiments of this application can dissipate heat efficiently.

Abstract: An electrode assembly and a related battery, and battery module are provided, wherein the electrode assembly includes: at least one positive electrode plate and at least one negative electrode plate, the number of all the positive and negative electrode plates is greater than or equal to 3; the positive and negative electrode plates are wound around the winding axis and arranged in a superimposing manner along a direction vertical to the winding axis, each positive electrode plate includes a positive main body part, at least part of the positive main body part is a positive active substance area, each negative electrode plate includes a negative main body part, at least part of the negative main body part is the negative active substance area, two ends of the negative active substance area along the winding axis both exceed corresponding ends of the adjacent positive active substance area.

Abstract: The present application discloses a negative active material, preparation process thereof and a secondary battery and the related battery module, battery pack and device. The negative active material comprises a core material and a modified polymer coating layer coated on at least a part of the outer surface of the core material, the core material comprises one or more of silicon-based materials and tin based materials, the coating layer comprises carbon element and nitrogen element, wherein the nitrogen element is present in the negative active material in a mass percentage of 0.1%˜0.66%, and the coating layer comprises a —C?N-linkage.

Abstract: This application provides a nonaqueous electrolyte, a lithium-ion battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a nonaqueous solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive. The nonaqueous solvent is a high oxidation potential solvent, and the additive includes cyclic sulfate. The high oxidation potential solvent is selected from one or more of compounds represented by formula I and formula II, and the cyclic sulfate may be selected from one or more of compounds represented by formula III. This application can not only improve electrochemical performance of the lithium-ion battery under high temperature and high voltage and improve safety performance such as overcharge safety and hot box safety of the lithium-ion battery, but also ensure that the lithium-ion battery has some kinetic performance.

Abstract: This application relates to a negative electrode plate, a secondary battery and apparatus thereof. The secondary battery of the present application comprises a negative electrode plate, the negative electrode plate comprises a composite current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the composite current collector, the negative electrode active material layer comprises a silicon-based active material, the silicon-based active material accounts for 0.5 wt % to 50 wt % of total mass of the negative electrode active material layer, and the composite current collector comprises a polymer support layer and a metal conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the polymer support layer. The secondary battery and the negative electrode plate achieve good coordination between the current collector and the negative electrode active material layer.

Abstract: This application provides a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, a lithium-ion battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a nonaqueous solvent and a lithium salt. The nonaqueous solvent includes a carbonate solvent and a high-oxidation-potential solvent. The carbonate solvent is a mixture of a cyclic carbonate and a chain carbonate, and the high-oxidation-potential solvent is selected from one or more of compounds denoted by Formula I and Formula II. This application improves electrochemical performance of the lithium-ion battery under a high temperature and a high voltage as well as safety performance such as overcharge safety and hot-oven safety of the lithium-ion battery, and also ensures kinetic performance of the lithium-ion battery to some extent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode active material, a preparation method thereof, an electrode, a battery, and an apparatus. The electrode active material includes: a core and a coating layer, where the core includes a ternary material, the coating layer coats the core, the coating layer includes a reaction product of a sulfur-containing compound and a lithium-containing compound, and the reaction product includes element Li, element S, and element O.

Abstract: Disclosed are a lithium metal composite electrode material for a lithium metal battery, a preparation method for the same, and an electrode, battery, battery module, battery pack and apparatus comprising the same. The lithium metal composite electrode material comprises: lithium metal particles and a lithium-containing conductive layer serving as a supporting framework, the supporting framework being filled with the lithium metal particles; wherein the lithium-containing conductive layer comprises an inorganic lithium compound and a lithium alloy.

Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery is provided, where an electrolyte solution of the lithium-ion secondary battery comprises a highly heat-stable salt (My+)x/yR1(SO2N?)xSO2R2, where the My+ is a metal ion, R1 and R2 are each independently a fluorine atom, an alkyl with 1-20 carbon atoms, a fluoroalkyl with 1-20 carbon atoms, or a fluoroalkoxy with 1-20 carton atoms, x is 1, 2, or 3, and y is 1, 2, or 3. A mass percent of the salt in the electrolyte solution is set as k2%; a temperature rise coefficient k1 of the positive electrode sheet satisfies 2.5?k1?32, where k1=Cw/Mc, Cw is a positive electrode material load per unit area (mg/cm2) on the surface of any side of the positive electrode current collector on which a positive electrode material layer is loaded, and Mc is a carbon content (%) of the positive electrode material layer; and the lithium-ion secondary battery satisfies 0.34?k2/k1?8.

Abstract: This application provides a nonaqueous electrolyte, a lithium-ion battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a nonaqueous solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive, where the nonaqueous solvent includes a carbonate solvent and a high oxidation potential solvent, and the additive includes cyclic sulfate. The high oxidation potential solvent is selected from one or more of compounds represented by formula I and formula II, and the cyclic sulfate may be selected from one or more of compounds represented by formula III. This application can not only improve electrochemical performance of the lithium-ion battery under high temperature and high voltage and improve safety performance such as overcharge safety and hot box safety of the lithium-ion battery, but also ensure that the lithium-ion battery has some kinetic performance.

Abstract: A battery module, a battery pack, and an electric apparatus are provided. In some embodiments, the battery module includes a first type of cell and a second type of cell that are cells of different chemical systems, where the first type of cell includes n first cells, the second type of cell includes m second cells, n and m each are selected from an integer greater than 1, at least one of the first cells and at least one of the second cells are electrically connected in series, and the first cell and the second cell satisfy at least the following relationships: 0.08??RB/?RA?3.50, and 0.10 m?/100 cycles??RA?0.40 m?/100 cycles, where ?RA is a discharge resistance growth rate of the first cell, and ?RB is a discharge resistance growth rate of the second cell; and IMPB<IMPA, where IMPA is an alternating current impedance of the first cell, and IMPB is an alternating current impedance of the second cell.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of energy storage technologies, and provides a battery, an apparatus, a preparation method of battery, and a preparation apparatus of battery. The battery includes a first battery cell and a second battery cell. The first battery cell includes a first pressure relief mechanism, the second battery cell includes a second pressure relief mechanism, an energy density of the first battery cell is greater than an energy density of the second battery cell, and an area of the first pressure relief mechanism is greater than an area of the second pressure relief mechanism. The apparatus includes the foregoing battery.

Abstract: A box body includes a carrying plate configured to carry a battery and a one-way gravity valve disposed at the carrying plate. The one-way gravity valve is configured to be closed in response to a gravity of liquid in the box body being less than a threshold, and to be open in response to the gravity of the liquid in the box body reaching the threshold.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a battery, a power consumption device, and a method and device for producing a battery. The battery includes: a battery cell, the battery cell including a pressure relief mechanism configured to be actuated when an internal pressure or temperature of the battery cell reaches a threshold, to relieve the internal pressure; a fire-fighting pipeline configured to accommodate a fire-fighting medium and discharge the fire-fighting medium toward the battery cell when the pressure relief mechanism is actuated; and an accommodating part configured to accommodate the fire-fighting medium discharged from the fire-fighting pipeline to lower a temperature of the battery cell. According to technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the safety of the battery could be enhanced.

Abstract: This application provides an electrolytic solution and a lithium metal battery containing the electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and an additive. The additive includes a sultam compound represented by Structural Formula I. R is selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C10 hydrocarbyls, where a substituent is selected from a phenyl, C1 to C6 alkyls, or C1 to C6 alkenyls. X is a sulfur atom or a phosphorus atom. R1 and R2 each are independently selected from an oxygen atom, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, and substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C10 hydrocarbyls. Both R1 and R2 are not oxygen atoms concurrently.

Abstract: This application provides a composite positive-electrode material and a preparation method thereof, a positive-electrode plate, a secondary battery, and a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus containing such secondary battery. The composite positive-electrode material includes a core and a coating layer covering at least part of a surface of the core, where the core includes a positive-electrode pre-lithiation material, the positive-electrode pre-lithiation material includes a lithium-rich metal oxide, and the coating layer includes a positive-electrode active material.

Abstract: The present application provides a negative electrode active material, a process, a battery, a battery module, a battery pack and an apparatus related to the same. The negative electrode active material comprises a core material and a polymer modified coating on at least a part of a surface of core material; wherein the core material is one or more of a silicon-based negative electrode material and a tin-based negative electrode material; the negative electrode active material has a weight loss rate satisfying 0.2%?weight loss rate?2% in a thermogravimetric analysis test wherein temperature is elevated from 25° C. to 800° C. under a non-oxidizing inert gas atmosphere. The present application can reduce damage to the surface structure of the negative electrode active material, reduce loss of active ions and capacity, meanwhile can well improve coulomb efficiency and cycle performance of the battery.

Abstract: The electrode plate includes a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector, wherein the current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer, the conductive layer has a single-sided thickness D2 satisfying: 30 nm?D2?3 ?m; the electrode active material layer is divided into two regions, an inner region and an outer region in a thickness direction of the electrode active material layer, in which the weight percentage of the conductive agent in the inner region of the electrode active material layer is higher than the weight percentage content of the conductive agent in the outer region of the electrode active material layer, and the conductive agent in the inner region of the electrode active material layer includes at least one of a one-dimensional conductive material and a two-dimensional conductive material.

Abstract: A negative-electrode active material includes a carbon matrix, boron, and iron distributed in an interior of the carbon matrix.

Abstract: A positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode plate, a battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus including the positive electrode current collector are provided. In some embodiments, a positive electrode current collector is provided, including an organic support layer and an aluminum-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the organic support layer, where the aluminum-based conductive layer contains Al and at least one modifying element selected from O, N, F, B, S, and P, an XPS spectrogram of the aluminum-based conductive layer with a surface passivation layer removed through etching has at least a first peak falling in a range of 70 eV to 73.5 eV and a second peak falling in a range of 73.5 eV to 78 eV, and a ratio x of peak intensity of the second peak to that of the first peak satisfies 0<x?3.0.