Abstract: The invention provides a lithium ion battery comprising: an anode comprising an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, the anode active material layer having a mass load higher than 60 g/m2; a cathode comprising a cathode active material layer on a cathode current collector, the cathode active material layer having a mass load higher than 80 g/m2; and an electrolytic solution comprising an imide anion based lithium salt and LiPO2F2, wherein at least one of the anode and cathode active material layers comprises a spacer comprising silicone ball.

Abstract: A lithium-manganese composite oxide represented by formula (1): Li1+x[(FeyNi1?y)zMn1?z]1?xO2 (1) wherein x, y, and z satisfy the following: 0<x??, 0?y<1.0, and 0<z?0.6, and wherein the content ratio of Li to the total content of Fe, Ni, and Mn (Li/(Fe+Ni+Mn)) is 1.55 or less on a molar ratio basis, the lithium-manganese composite oxide containing a crystalline phase having a layered rock-salt structure. This composite oxide is a novel material made from less resource-constrained and cheaper elements, and exhibits a high specific capacity, excellent charge-and-discharge cycle characteristics, and a high discharge capacity at a high current density (excellent rate characteristics), when used in the positive electrode material for lithium-ion secondary batteries.

Abstract: In order to provide a lithium ion secondary battery having both high energy density and an excellent charging-rate characteristic, in the lithium ion secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte solution, the electrolyte solution comprises 0.5 mol/l or more of Li[(FSO2)2N], 0.5 mol/l or more of LiPF6, and LiPO2F2; and the negative electrode comprises graphite deposited with amorphous carbon or graphite coated with amorphous carbon and having a specific surface area of 4 m2/g or less, as a negative electrode active material.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a new lithium ion battery system that can have both high energy density and fast chargeable capability. The invention provides a lithium ion battery, comprising an anode comprising an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, the anode active material layer having a mass load higher than 60 g/m2, a cathode comprising a cathode active material layer on a cathode current collector, the cathode active material layer having a mass load higher than 100 g/m2, and an electrolytic solution comprising an imide anion based lithium salt and LiPO2F2, wherein at least one of the anode and cathode active material layers comprises a spacer composed of a hard carbon.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery comprising an oxetane compound represented by a predetermined formula in an amount within a range of 0.001% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less based on the amount of a negative electrode active material, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the same.

Abstract: In order to provide a negative electrode carbon material capable of providing a lithium secondary battery improved in the capacity and the rate characteristic, there are carried out a first heat treatment of subjecting graphite particles to a heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere, and following the first heat treatment, a second heat treatment of subjecting the resulting graphite particles to a heat treatment in an inert gas atmosphere at a higher temperature than in the first heat treatment.

Abstract: An electrode for lithium ion secondary batteries, including a porous glass particle and a positive electrode active material or negative electrode active material that is capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions wherein the pore volume of the porous glass particle is from 0.1 ml/g to 2 ml/g, is used to provide a lithium ion secondary battery excellent in a charge rate property.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, including a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material including silicon (Si) as a constituent element, in which a coating including iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and oxygen (O) as constituent elements is formed on a surface of the negative electrode active material layer.

Abstract: Provided are a lithium secondary battery high in capacity and excellent in charge and discharge rate characteristics, and a method for producing the same. The lithium secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active substance containing a lithium transition metal oxide, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active substance containing a heat-treated graphite material, and an electrolytic solution, wherein the heat-treated graphite material has passages of lithium ions penetrating at least one or more layers of graphene layers from the surface of a graphene stacking structure; and the electrolytic solution contains lithium difluorophosphate.

Abstract: An anode material for a lithium ion battery, comprising an oxygen-containing carbon where oxygen is in the form of functional groups, the oxygen being distributed gradient from the surface to the inside of the carbon, and the carbon having an interlayer space d002 larger than 0.3357 nm; and a porous graphene layer covering the oxygen-containing carbon, the graphene being in the form of monolayer or few-layer graphene.

Abstract: There is provided a lithium-iron-manganese-based composite oxide capable of providing a lithium-ion secondary battery which has a high capacity retention rate in charge/discharge cycles and in which the generation of a gas caused by charge/discharge cycles is reduced. A lithium-iron-manganese-based composite oxide having a layered rock-salt structure, wherein at least a part of the surface of a lithium-iron-manganese-based composite oxide represented by the following formula (1) is coated with an inorganic material: LixM1(y-p)MnpM2(z-p)FeqO(2-?) (1) (wherein 1.05?x?1.32, 0.33?y?0.63, 0.06?z?0.50, 0<p?0.63, 0.06?q?0.50, 0???0.80, y?p, and z?q; M1 is at least one element selected from Ti and Zr; and M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni and Mn).

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolytic solution comprising a phosphinoamine-based compound represented by formula (1) below and a lithium ion secondary battery comprising the non-aqueous electrolytic solution. By adding the phosphinoamine-based compound to the non-aqueous electrolytic solution, oxidative degradation in the non-aqueous electrolytic solution is suppressed, and thus gas generation is suppressed.

Abstract: To provide an anode material for implementing a lithium-ion battery that is capable of high-speed charging and excellent in cycle characteristics, and has high capacity. The anode material includes a spherical particle of graphite or graphite-carbon composite provided with pores on the surface and inner channels in the core part of the particle, the inner channels being interconnected to the pores.

Abstract: A porous graphene material with 1 to 200 graphene layers, wherein: at least one monolayer graphene is included; pores with the size of 70 nm to 200 nm are scattered over the surface of the material and the number of pores is 10 to 500 per ?m2; an oxygen concentration is below 0.8 atomic %; and the ratio of the peak height (ID) of D band in a Raman scattering spectrum of the material to that of the peak height (IG) of G band at 1,570 to 1,596 cm?1 in the spectrum (ID/IG) is between 1 and 1.35. The porous graphene material is suitable for conductive additives for electrodes of Lithium ion battery.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolytic solution comprising a phosphinoamine-based compound represented by formula (1) below and a lithium ion secondary battery comprising the non-aqueous electrolytic solution. By adding the phosphinoamine-based compound to the non-aqueous electrolytic solution, oxidative degradation in the non-aqueous electrolytic solution is suppressed, and thus gas generation is suppressed.

Abstract: In terms of a lithium ion secondary battery using, in a positive electrode, a lithium transition metal composite oxide containing an over-stoichiometric amount of lithium, a lithium ion secondary battery in which an amount of a gas generated during charge/discharge cycles is reduced and capacity retention is improved is provided. The lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing a lithium transition metal composite oxide containing Fe and containing an over-stoichiometric amount of lithium, and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, and the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains a nonaqueous organic solvent, an electrolyte, and lithium difluorophosphate.

Abstract: There is provided a negative electrode carbon material for a lithium secondary battery, including a graphite-based material in which holes are formed in a graphene layer plane.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a negative electrode carbon material capable of providing a lithium secondary battery improved in the capacity characteristic, and a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery using the negative electrode carbon material. The negative electrode carbon material for a lithium secondary battery according to the present invention comprises an oxidized amorphous carbon material comprising oxidized graphene layers. The oxidized amorphous carbon material can be obtained by subjecting an amorphous carbon to an oxidation treatment so that graphene layers of carbon crystallites contained in the amorphous carbon are oxidized.

Abstract: An anode material for a lithium ion secondary battery that is obtainable by a method comprising: preparing a raw material of the anode material selected from high oxygen containing carbons, heat treating the raw material at a temperature of 550° C. to 850° C. under oxidizing atmosphere to form having a multi-channel carbon material and doping boron into the multi-channel carbon material.

Abstract: There is provided a lithium-iron-manganese-based composite oxide capable of providing a lithium-ion secondary battery which has a high capacity retention rate in charge/discharge cycles and in which the generation of a gas caused by charge/discharge cycles is suppressed. A lithium-iron-manganese-based composite oxide having a layered rock-salt structure, wherein at least a part of the surface of a lithium-iron-manganese-based composite oxide represented by the following formula is coated with an oxide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of La, Pr, Nd, Sm and Eu: LixM1(y-p)MnpM2(z-q)FeqO(2-?) wherein 1.05?x?1.32, 0.33?y?0.63, 0.06?z?0.50, 0<p?0.63, 0.06?q?0.50, 0???0.80, y?p, and z?q; M1 is at least one element selected from Ti and Zr; and M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni and Mn.