Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, having a novel overcharge protective function. The positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention includes a positive electrode active material layer including a plurality of positive electrode active material particles, wherein the positive electrode active material layer comprises: a carbonaceous coating film formed on a surface of each of the positive electrode active material particles; and 0% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less of a conductive auxiliary agent disposed between the plurality of positive electrode active material particles, and at least one of the carbonaceous coating film and the conductive auxiliary agent is graphitizable carbon.

Abstract: A battery (2) comprising a pressure sensitive adhesive sheet (1) and an electrolyte solution, wherein: the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet is provided at a site in the battery in which there is a possibility of contact with the electrolyte solution; the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet comprises a base material (11) and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer (13) laminated at one side of the base material; and the pressure sensitive adhesive layer (13) is formed of a pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprising: a (meth)acrylic ester polymer having a main chain containing (meth)acrylic alkyl ester monomer units having a carbon number of an alkyl group of 6 or more and 20 or less, and carboxy group-containing monomer units, wherein the (meth)acrylic alkyl ester monomer units having a carbon number of an alkyl group of 6 or more and 20 or less contain 2-ethylhexyl (meth)acrylates and (meth)acrylic alkyl ester monomer units having a carbon number of an alkyl group of 10 or more and 20 or less.

Abstract: Active metal and active metal intercalation electrode structures and battery cells having ionically conductive protective architecture including an active metal (e.g., lithium) conductive impervious layer separated from the electrode (anode) by a porous separator impregnated with a non-aqueous electrolyte (anolyte). This protective architecture prevents the active metal from deleterious reaction with the environment on the other (cathode) side of the impervious layer, which may include aqueous or non-aqueous liquid electrolytes (catholytes) and/or a variety electrochemically active materials, including liquid, solid and gaseous oxidizers. Safety additives and designs that facilitate manufacture are also provided.

Abstract: A fuel cell catalyst material includes metal catalyst particles formed of a metal material and a carbon-based coating composition at least partially coating at least some of the metal catalyst particles. The carbon-based coating composition includes a carbon network. The carbon-based coating composition is doped with a dopant. The carbon-based coating composition includes a number of defects formed by one or more vacated carbon atoms in the carbon network.

Abstract: A protection circuit board includes a printed circuit board having a circuit is printed on a board formed from an electrically insulating material and two or more connection components disposed on at least one surface of the printed circuit board and are coupled to an electrode terminal of a secondary battery. Additionally, at least one inspection slot having a shape recessed within the connection component and extending to a portion that the electrode terminal of the secondary battery is coupled thereto and is defined in the connection component. Also, an inspection device and inspection method for inspecting a welded state between a protection circuit board and an electrode terminal among a pair of electrode terminals of a battery pack are provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to compositions and structures of supported metal catalysts for use in applications such as direct methanol fuel cells. Generally, implementations include supported metal catalysts that include Pt active sites that have been modified by addition or co-localization of a second metal such as Cu, Co, Ni, and/or other base metals to lower the inhibiting effect of strongly-adsorbed CO, an intermediate of methanol oxidation. An example aspect of the present disclosure includes catalyst compositions where the exterior metal sites in the supported catalyst include at least two metals: Pt and a competitive binder (e.g., a second metal).

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet application device (1) including a distribution flow path for the liquid material, the distribution flow path including a first flow channel (4) configured to supply the liquid material pumped with a pump (2) to a supply tank (3) and a second flow channel (6) configured to supply the liquid material in the supply tank (3) to the inkjet head (5), wherein the supply tank (3) accommodates a filter (40), which is configured to allow the particles in the liquid material to pass therethrough without allowing air bubbles in the liquid material, which are generated by the pumping of the pump (2), to pass therethrough.

Abstract: A positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode piece, an electrochemical device and an apparatus, where the positive electrode current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer provided on the support layer, where a material of the conductive layer is aluminum or aluminum alloy, and a thickness D1 of the conductive layer is 300 nm?D1?2 ?m; an elongation at break B of the support layer is 10,000%?B?12%, and a volume resistivity of the support layer is greater than or equal to 1.0×10?5 ?·m; when a tensile strain of the positive electrode current collector is 2%, a square resistance growth rate T1 of the conductive layer is T1?10%. The positive electrode current collector provided in the present application can simultaneously take into account both high safety performance and electrical performance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a free-standing electrode film includes preparing a mixture including an electrode active material, a conductive material, and a binder, heating the mixture to 70° C. or higher, subjecting the mixture to a shear force, and, after the mixture has been subjected to the shear force, pressing the mixture into a free-standing film. The method may further include adding a solvent to the mixture. A resulting free-standing electrode film may include an amount of binder less than 4% by weight.

Abstract: A method for preparing an ultrathin Li complex includes the steps of preparing an organic transition layer on a substrate in advance, and contacting the substrate having transition layer with molten Li in argon atmosphere with H2O?0.1 ppm and O2?0.1 ppm. The molten Li spreads rapidly on the surface of the substrate to form a lithium thin layer. The ultrathin Li layer stores lithium on the current collector beforehand. It can be used as a safe lithium anode to inhibit dendrites.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and a production system therefor, that allow forming a good SEI film in a shorter time. The production method includes an assembly step, an initial charging step and a high-temperature aging step.

Abstract: An electrode including an integrated fibrous separator may include an active material layer layered onto a current collector substrate, and an integrated separator layer comprising a mixture of ceramic particles and fibers layered onto the active material layer. The fibers may be oriented substantially horizontally, and may be configured to increase a lateral strength of the electrode. In some examples, the electrode includes two or more active material layers disposed between the integrated separator layer and the current collector substrate. In some examples, the electrode includes an interlocking region disposed between the active material layer and the integrated separator layer.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a secondary battery includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer that contains a positive electrode active material particle and that is disposed on the surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material particle includes a positive electrode active material particle, a first coating that contains oxide X of metal element M1 and that is attached to the surface of the positive electrode active material particle, and a second coating having lithium-ion permeability that is attached to the surface of the first coating. The second coating contains oxide Y represented by LixM2Oy (0.5?x<4, 1?y<6), M2 being at least one selected from a group consisting of B, Al, Si, P, S, Ti, V, Zr, Nb, Ta, and La.

Abstract: A lithium electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The lithium electrode has a surface oxide layer with a controlled thickness and surface roughness. The lithium electrode may be used as a negative electrode of a lithium secondary battery, for example, a lithium-sulfur secondary battery. A lithium-sulfur battery including the lithium electrode has an enhanced lifetime due to suppression of side reactions with polysulfide.

Abstract: Briefly, a sensor for a continuous biological monitor is provided for measuring the level of a target analyte for a patient. The sensor has a working wire and a reference wire, where the working wire has an analyte limiting layer that passes more than 1 in 1000 analyte molecules from the patient to the an enzyme layer. The enzyme layer has an enzyme entrapped in a polyurethane cross-linked with acrylic polyol. As free electrons are generated, a conductor transfers the electrons to the biological monitor. In some cases, the sensor may be constructed without the use of any expensive platinum.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lithium-sulfur battery cathode. The lithium-sulfur battery cathode comprises a carbon nanotube sponge and a plurality of sulfur nanoparticles. Wherein the carbon nanotube sponge comprises a plurality of micropores. The plurality of sulfur nanoparticles are uniformly distributed in the plurality of micropores. The present disclosure also relates a method for making the lithium-sulfur battery cathode and a lithium-sulfur battery using the lithium-sulfur battery cathode.

Abstract: Provided is a current collector electrode sheet (10) including a slurry application area (11) formed by intermittently applying and drying a slurry containing an active material and a non-application area (12), on both surfaces of a metal foil (9), in which the application area (11) and the non-application area (12) are alternately formed in a winding direction of the metal foil (9) having a strip shape, and, in a compression step of continuously compressing the slurry application area (11) and the non-application area (12) using a pair of compression rollers in a thickness direction of the current collector electrode sheet (10), an area which is not compressed by the compression rollers, is present in a tailing portion (14) at a terminal end (13) of each application area (11).

Abstract: An anode material having 0.8?0.06×(Dv50)2?2.5×Dv50+Dv99?12 (1); and 1.2?0.2×Dv50?0.006×(Dv50)2+BET?5 (2), where Dv50 represents a value in the volume-based particle size distribution of the anode material that is greater than the particle size of 50% of the particles, Dv99 represents a value in the volume-based particle size distribution of the anode material that is greater than the particle size of 99% of the particles, and BET is a specific surface area of the anode material, wherein Dv50 and Dv99 are expressed in ?m and BET is expressed in m2/g. The anode material is capable of significantly improving the rate performance of electrochemical devices.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, comprising a lithium-containing composite metal oxide in the form of secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles capable of being doped and undoped with lithium ions, each of the secondary particles having on its surface a coating layer, the positive electrode active material satisfying the following requirements (1) to (3): (1) the metal oxide has an ?-NaFeO2 type crystal structure of following formula (A): Lia(NibCocM11-b-c)O2??(A) wherein 0.9?a?1.2, 0.9?b<1, 0<c?0.1, 0.9<b+c?1, and M1 represents at least one optional metal selected from Mg, Al, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, In and Sn; (2) the coating layer comprises Li and M2, wherein M2 represents at least one optional metal selected from Al, Ti, Zr and W; and (3) the active material has an average secondary particle diameter of 2 to 20 ?m, a BET specific surface area of 0.1 to 2.

Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a roll press apparatus is provided. The roll press apparatus presses electrode sheets, each including a both-side coated portion where an electrode mixture is applied to both sides of a current collector and a one-side coated portion where the electrode mixture is applied to one side of a current collector, by passing the electrode sheet through a separated space between a pair of press rolls.