Abstract: A method of manufacturing a calendered cathode structure for a hybrid lithium metal cell includes depositing a first cathode coating layer without ionic liquid onto a cathode current collector, depositing a second cathode coating layer with ionic liquid onto the first coating layer, and depositing a third cathode coating layer without ionic liquid onto the second coating layer. A calendaring process is then performed on the cathode structure comprising the cathode current collector with the first, second, and third coating layers thereon such that a predetermined thickness and porosity for the cathode structure is achieved while at the same time the ionic liquid is spread throughout the cathode electrode without reaching the cathode current collector.

Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell includes a support of which a main component is a metal, and an anode supported by the support, wherein the anode includes a first oxide having electron conductivity, wherein the first oxide is perovskite type oxide expressed as a composition formula ABO3, wherein “A” of the composition formula includes at least one of Ca, Sr, Ba and La, wherein “B” of the composition formula includes at least Cr.

Abstract: A valve structural body that is easy to attach to a container is for a power storage device, and includes a casing in which a passage through which gas generated inside of the container is discharged to the outside of the container is formed, and a valve mechanism that is accommodated in the casing and allows the gas to pass through the passage to the outside of the container via the passage if the internal pressure of the container has risen due to the gas generated inside of the container. The casing includes a first plane, and a second plane that is parallel to the first plane.

Abstract: The present application is provided with a battery box and a battery pack. The battery pack box includes a base plate and a frame, the base plate being connected with the frame; where the base plate includes: a first plate; a second plate, disposed opposite to the first plate; and a perforated plate, provided with a plurality of holes spaced; where the perforated plate is located between the first plate and the second plate, and is welded and fixed to the first plate and the second plate respectively. In the present application, the perforated plate can reduce the overall weight of the box and increase the energy density of the battery pack.

Abstract: A battery module comprises: electrochemical cells arranged in rows with terminals in a coplanar arrangement, the electrochemical cells including first and second terminals of opposite polarity at respective first ends of the electrochemical cells; a busbar and a plurality of bond wires, each of the bond wires coupling the first terminal of a respective one of the electrochemical cells to the busbar; and a collector plate including tabs, each of the tabs coupled to the second terminal of a respective one of the electrochemical cells.

Abstract: Provided is a positive active material in which a compound containing lithium, a transition metal, and oxygen is doped with a doping metal, the positive active material including lithium (Li) layers, in which the lithium layers may include a first lithium layer including only lithium and a second lithium layer in which at least a part of the lithium of the first lithium layer is substituted with a transition metal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat resistant layer composition, a heat resistant layer formed therefrom, and a separator for a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery including same, wherein the heat resistant layer composition includes an acrylic copolymer including a first structural unit derived from (meth)acrylamide, and a second structural unit including at least one of a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylic acid or a (meth)acrylate, a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylonitrile, and a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylamidosulfonic acid or a salt thereof; a cross-linking agent including at least one functional group of an aldehyde group, an epoxy group, an amide group, an imide group, an amine group, and a silane-based group; and a solvent.

Abstract: An alkaline battery comprises an anode, a cathode, a separator disposed between the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte in fluid communication with the anode, the cathode, and the separator. The separator comprises at least one ion selective layer that can include at least one of graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, functionalized graphene, or combinations thereof. This can allow the ion selective layer to be configured to selectively block zincate ions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a porous body which contains sheath-core type binder fibers and a resin binder, and which is characterized in that: the resin binder (the solid content) is contained in an amount of more than 5.0 parts by mass but less than 50 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the porous body; and if P (N) is the penetration strength of the porous body and B (g/m2) is the weight per square meter of the porous body, P and B satisfy P/B>0.070.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for coating metal, a metal member comprising the coating layer formed thereby, and a fuel cell separator. A method for coating metal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes preparing a metal base material; and forming a molten pool by irradiating a laser to a surface of the metal base material and forming a coating layer using an additive manufacturing by supplying a powder made of any one of Si, SiC, and a mixture of Cr and Al to the molten pool.

Abstract: An electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes arranged in a stack along a stacking axis with a respective separator portion of an elongated separator sheet positioned between and winding around each of the electrodes in the stack along a serpentine path. An intermediate one of the separator portions may be adhered to an intermediate one of the electrodes such that it would take a peel force in a range from 5 gf to 35 gf per 20 mm width applied to an edge of the intermediate separator portion in order to peel it away from the intermediate electrode at a speed of 100 mm/min along the stacking axis. Moreover, top and bottom ones of the separator portions may each have a value of air permeability from 70 sec/100 ml to sec/100 ml per square inch of the respective separator portion at a pressure of 0.05 MPa and at room temperature.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and compositions for the solution-phase deposition of thin films that form artificial SEIs on conversion anodes in lithium-ion batteries. In certain aspects, the solution-phase deposition methods comprise sequentially processing a lithium-ion conversion anode with multiple liquid reagents to form a monolayer or stacks of monolayers forming the thin film coating. The conversion anodes produced by the methods and systems described herein have a surface coating that is electrically insulating, consumes little to no lithium, is permeable to lithium transport, is impermeable to electrolyte and is mechanically robust against volumetric expansion.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode; a case connected to the first electrode to house the electrode assembly and including an opening to expose the electrode assembly; a cap plate coupled with the case to cover an outer region of the opening and including a through-hole to expose a center region of the opening; and a terminal plate bonded to and insulated from the cap plate to cover the through-hole and connected to the second electrode, and the outer surface of the case has a first protrusions-and-depressions shape.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of preparing an electrode for a lithium secondary battery which includes forming a first electrolyte layer by immersing an electrode current collector in a composition for forming the first electrolyte layer and applying a current, and forming a second electrolyte layer by immersing the electrode current collector having the first electrolyte layer formed thereon in a composition for forming the second electrolyte layer and applying a current, wherein one of the composition for forming the first electrolyte layer and the composition for forming the second electrolyte layer is a composition for forming an organic electrolyte layer, and another one is a composition for forming an inorganic electrolyte layer, and the composition for forming an inorganic electrolyte layer includes a compound represented by Formula 1.

Abstract: A fuel cell may include a first fuel cell bipolar plate defining an air layer, a second fuel cell bipolar plate defining a hydrogen layer, and a coolant layer defined by the air layer and the hydrogen layer. The coolant layer includes a plurality of coolant microchannels that facilitate flow of a coolant. A permeable support layer is arranged between the air layer and the hydrogen layer to define a gap therebetween to prevent flow blockage of the coolant microchannels while facilitating coolant flow therethrough.

Abstract: A battery module includes a cell stack in which a plurality of plate-shaped cells is stacked such that each main surface, which is a surface of each of the plate-shaped cells in a cell thickness direction, faces one another.

Abstract: A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, the negative active material including secondary particles of agglomerated primary particles, the primary particles including Si particles and a first ceramic oxide on a surface of the Si particles; and amorphous carbon, wherein the amorphous carbon surrounds a surface of the primary particles and a surface of the secondary particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a negative electrode active material including a spherical carbon-based particle, and a carbon layer disposed on the spherical carbon-based particle and including a nano-particle, wherein the nano-particle has a silicon core, an oxide layer disposed on the silicon core and including SiOx (0<x?2), and a coating layer covering at least a portion of the surface of the oxide layer and including LiF.

Abstract: This application provides a secondary battery, a battery module, and a device using a secondary battery as a power supply. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a cap assembly, and current collection members. The electrode assembly includes a main body and tabs that extend from the main body. The cap assembly includes a cap plate, electrode terminals, and an insulation baffle. The electrode terminals are disposed on the cap plate. The insulation baffle is connected to a side of the cap plate, where the side is close to the main body. The current collection members are at least partly located between the insulation baffle and the main body, and each of the current collection members includes a tab connection portion connected to one of the tabs. The insulation baffle contains a first recess.

Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods of malting and using free-standing electrode films for electrodes by a dry process. The process for forming an electrode includes combining a processing additive and an active electrode material or fibrillizable binder to form an electrode precursor material, where the processing additive has a surface roughness and a porosity and intermixing the electrode precursor material. The electrode precursor material may then be combined with the fibrillizable binder or the active electrode material and the fibrillizable binder or the active electrode material is intermixed with the electrode precursor material to form an electrode film material. The electrode film material includes the processing additive, the fibrillizable binder and the active electrode material. The electrode film material is then compressed into an electrode film.