Abstract: A current collector layer for an all-solid-state battery is provided with which a good electron path can be easily formed and rate characteristic can be improved. A current collector layer 5 for an all-solid-state battery 1, the current collector layer 5 including: a carbon material; and a solid electrolyte, the all-solid-state battery 1 including a group 1 or 2 ion conductive solid electrolyte layer 2, the carbon material being mixed with Si at a weight ratio of 1:1 to produce a mixture, the mixture having an X-ray diffraction spectrum having a ratio of a peak height a to a peak height b, a/b, of 0.2 or more and 10.0 or less as being measured, the peak height a being highest in a range of 2? of 24° or more and less than 28°, and the peak height b being highest in a range of 2? of 28° or more and less than 30°.

Abstract: The present invention provides an active material for all-solid-state batteries that enables production of all-solid-state batteries having excellent battery characteristics. The present invention also provides an electrode for all-solid-state batteries and an all-solid-state battery each including the active material for all-solid-state batteries. Provided is an active material for all-solid-state batteries, including: an active material; and a coating layer containing amorphous carbon and coating a surface of the active material, the coating layer coating at least part of the surface of the active material.

Abstract: There is provided a carbon material capable of enhancing the capacity of a power storage device and battery characteristics such as rate characteristics and cycle characteristics. The carbon material is one having a graphene layered structure, in which: a BET specific surface area of the carbon material is 1 m2/g or more and 25 m2/g or less; and when a particle concentration of the carbon material and an integrated value of particle areas of the carbon material are measured by a flow-type particle image analyzer using an N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone solution containing 20 ppm of the carbon material, the particle concentration of the carbon material is 3,000 particles/?L or more and 50,000 particles/?L or less, and the integrated value of the particle areas of the carbon material is 1,000 mm2/mg or more and 10,000 mm2/mg or less.

Abstract: A current collector layer for an all-solid-state battery is provided with which a good electron path can be easily formed and rate characteristic can be improved. A current collector layer 5 for an all-solid-state battery 1, the current collector layer 5 including: a carbon material; and a solid electrolyte, the all-solid-state battery 1 including a group 1 or 2 ion conductive solid electrolyte layer 2, the carbon material being mixed with Si at a weight ratio of 1:1 to produce a mixture, the mixture having an X-ray diffraction spectrum having a ratio of a peak height a to a peak height b, a/b, of 0.2 or more and 10.0 or less as being measured, the peak height a being highest in a range of 2? of 24° or more and less than 28°, and the peak height b being highest in a range of 2? of 28° or more and less than 30°.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode material for electricity storage devices, which enables suppression of heat generation in charge and discharge at large currents. The electrode material for electricity storage devices comprises a first carbon material having a graphite structure wherein graphite is partially exfoliated, and a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, wherein the ratio A/B, where A represents a weight of the first carbon material and B represents a weight of the second carbon material, is within the range of 0.01 or higher and 100 or lower.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that can enhance a battery characteristic represented by the cycle characteristic of an electricity storage device. A carbon material including a graphene layered structure, the carbon material being mixed with Si at a weight ratio of 1:1 to produce a mixture, the mixture having an X-ray diffraction spectrum having a ratio between a peak height a and a peak height b a/b of 0.2 or more and 10.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material that can improve the cycle characteristic in charge and discharge of an all-solid-state battery. The carbon material is a carbon material to be contained in a positive electrode and/or a negative electrode of an all-solid-state battery comprising a group 1- or group 2-ionic conductive solid electrolyte, wherein in an X-ray diffraction spectrum of a mixture of the carbon material and Si in a weight ratio of 1:1, a ratio a/b is 0.2 or higher and 10.0 or lower, where a represents a height of the highest peak in the range of 2? of 24° or larger and smaller than 28° and b represents a height of the highest peak in the range of 2? of 28° or larger and smaller than 30°.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon material-containing dispersion liquid that is excellent in dispersibility when used as a slurry for electrode formation of a secondary battery, and is capable of enhancing the battery characteristics such as output characteristics of the secondary battery. A carbon material-containing dispersion liquid includes a carbon material and a dispersion medium for the carbon material. In the carbon material-containing dispersion liquid, a concentration of the carbon material in the carbon material-containing dispersion liquid is 0.01% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less, and a light transmittance at a wavelength of 650 nm of a supernatant of the carbon material-containing dispersion liquid when the carbon material-containing dispersion liquid is left to stand at 25° C. for 24 hours after preparation is 1% or more and 60% or less.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of laminate batteries. Each of the laminate batteries contains a layered body, an outer packaging that is formed from a laminate film enclosing the layered body, a pair of electrode terminals. The outer packaging has a battery part and a bag part that is a space of which a volume is changeable, and communicates to the battery part through a single communication part, the bag part is disposed close to a second edge, which is opposite to a first edge, and the battery part is disposed close to the first edge. The laminate batteries are all arranged in a manner to have the second edges of the outer packagings on an upper side of the battery pack in a vertical direction, which is parallel to the gravity, and to have the first edge on a lower side of the battery pack in the vertical direction such that all the bag parts are disposed above the battery parts in the vertical direction.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode material for electricity storage devices, which enables suppression of heat generation in charge and discharge at large currents. The electrode material for electricity storage devices comprises a first carbon material having a graphite structure wherein graphite is partially exfoliated, and a second carbon material different from the first carbon material, wherein the ratio A/B, where A represents a weight of the first carbon material and B represents a weight of the second carbon material, is within the range of 0.01 or higher and 100 or lower.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, wherein the negative electrode contains a titanium-containing oxide; the positive electrode contains a spinel type lithium manganate, and a cobalt-containing compound and/or a lithium-transition metal composite oxide having a stratified rock salt type structure; and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains one compound selected from the group consisting of an organic compound having an oxalic acid backbone, an organic compound having an isocyanate group, a lithium salt of an organic compound having a sulfonic acid backbone, and a succinic anhydride compound having a side chain with 3 or more carbon atoms in a content of 0.01 to 5% by weight with respect to 100% by weight of the nonaqueous electrolyte.

Abstract: A battery pack containing a plurality of plate-shaped laminate batteries arranged in a direction vertical to a plate-shaped surface of one of the laminate batteries. The laminate battery contains: a layered body which includes a negative electrode, a separator, and a positive electrode, and is disposed parallel to the plate-shaped surface of the laminate battery; an outer packaging including a laminate film enclosing the layered body; and an electrode terminal which is electrically connected to the layered body and extends from a one side part of the outer packaging. The outer packaging has, in an inside thereof, a battery part having a space in which the layered body exists and a bag part which has a space a volume of which is changeable, communicates to the battery part through a communication part, and is disposed on an other side part opposite to the one side part.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, wherein the negative electrode contains a titanium-containing oxide; the positive electrode contains a spinel type lithium manganate, and a cobalt-containing compound and/or a lithium-transition metal composite oxide having a stratified rock salt type structure; and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains one compound selected from the group consisting of an organic compound having an oxalic acid backbone, an organic compound having an isocyanate group, a lithium salt of an organic compound having a sulfonic acid backbone, and a succinic anhydride compound having a side chain with 3 or more carbon atoms in a content of 0.01 to 5% by weight with respect to 100% by weight of the nonaqueous electrolyte.