Abstract: Provided herein are a positive electrode for a secondary battery and a secondary battery including the same. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material, a conductive material, and a dispersant, wherein the conductive material includes bundle-type carbon nanotubes, units of which have an average strand diameter of 15 nm or less, and the positive electrode active material layer has a packing density of 3.0 g/cc or more, and has an average pore diameter of 0.1 ?m to 0.5 ?m at the packing density when a pore size distribution is measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry, and thus may exhibit excellent electrolyte wetting properties. As a result, when the positive electrode is applied to a battery, wetting time of the positive electrode is shortened, and an area of the positive electrode that is not filled with an electrolyte is reduced, resulting in enhanced battery performance.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery including: natural graphite particles; and a carbon coating layer on a surface and in an inside of the natural graphite particles. The negative electrode active material for a secondary battery has a porosity of 3% to 13%.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery which includes: silicon particles; and a coating layer surrounding respective silicon particles, wherein the silicon particles have a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of peak ranging from 2 to 10 in the particle diameter distribution having an average particle diameter (D50) of 1 ?m to 30 ?m, and the coating layer includes at least one selected from the group consisting of carbon and a polymer. A negative electrode and lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode active material are also disclosed.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer is formed by steps of coating a negative electrode mixture slurry including spheroidized natural graphite particles as a negative electrode active material on at least one surface of a negative electrode current collector, followed by drying and pressing the negative electrode mixture slurry on the at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector. The spheroidized natural graphite particles include a plurality of pores. The negative electrode active material layer has a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) specific surface area of the negative electrode active material layer after the pressing is larger than a BET specific surface area of the negative electrode active material layer before pressing. A difference in the BET specific surface area before and after pressing ranges from 0.9 m2/g to 1.2 m2/g.

Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive material dispersed liquid including a conductive material which includes bundle-type carbon nanotubes; a dispersant which includes a hydrogenated nitrile-based rubber; and a dispersion medium, where a complex modulus (|G*| @ 1 Hz) is in a range of 20 to 500 Pa when measured by a rheometer at a frequency of 1 Hz, and a secondary battery manufactured using the same. The conductive material dispersed liquid has a controlled complex modulus to exhibit excellent dispersibility and powder resistance characteristics, and as a result, can greatly improve the output characteristics of batteries.

Abstract: An anode active material for a secondary battery that has improved cycle swelling properties and rapid charge performance, an anode comprising same, and a method for manufacturing same. The anode active material is a mixture of artificial graphite and spherical natural graphite, wherein the spherical natural graphite has an average particle diameter (D 50) of 12 ?m or less, with D 90-D 10 value ranging from 5 ?m to 12 ?m.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material including a core including silicon, and a coating layer disposed on the core and including a coating material, wherein the coating material includes at least one selected from the group consisting of LiaVbO2 and MgH2, wherein 0.5<a<1.5 and 0.5<b<1.5 is provided.

Abstract: A negative electrode and a secondary battery including the same are described, the negative electrode including a current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on the current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material layer includes a negative electrode active material including SiOx (0?x<2) particles, a conductive material, and a binder, and the negative electrode active material layer includes a lower layer in contact with the current collector, an upper layer positioned on the lower layer, and an intermediate layer positioned between the lower layer and the upper layer.

Abstract: An anode active material for a secondary battery, which has improved cycle swelling properties and rapid charge performance, an anode comprising an anode active material for a secondary battery, and a method for manufacturing same. The anode active material is a mixture of scaly natural graphite and spherical natural graphite. An average particle diameter (D50) of the scaly natural graphite is 10 ?m to 15 ?m and an average particle diameter (D50) of the spherical natural graphite is 14 ?m or less.

Abstract: A binder composition for a secondary battery which includes a copolymer binder including at least one unit selected from (A) a unit derived from a vinyl-based monomer, (B) a unit derived from a conjugated diene-based monomer or a conjugated diene-based polymer, (C) a unit derived from a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based monomer, and (D) a unit derived from a water-soluble polymer, wherein the copolymer binder has a wet modulus of 0.02 MPa or more, and a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the same.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a lithium secondary battery, including the steps: (S1) forming a preliminary negative electrode by coating a negative electrode slurry including a negative electrode active material, conductive material, binder and a solvent onto at least one surface of a current collector, followed by drying and pressing the negative electrode slurry coated current collector, to form a negative electrode active material layer surface on the current collector; (S2) coating lithium metal foil onto the negative electrode active material layer surface of the preliminary negative electrode in the shape of a pattern in which pattern units are arranged; (S3) cutting the preliminary negative electrode on which the lithium metal foil is pattern-coated to obtain negative electrode units; (S4) impregnating the negative electrode units with an electrolyte to obtain a pre-lithiated negative electrode; and (S5) assembling the negative electrode obtained from step (S4) with a positive electrode and a separator.

Abstract: An anode active material for secondary batteries which has improved cycle swelling characteristics and rapid charge performance, an anode comprising same, and a method for manufacturing same, in which the anode active material is manufactured by modifying the surface of natural graphite particles. The natural graphite particles have a Dmax/Dmin value of 1.6 to 2.1 in the particle size distribution thereof and have, formed in the surface thereof, pores having a diameter of 0.5 ?m to 2.0 ?m.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, including: first negative electrode active material particles including first artificial graphite particles and a carbon coating layer on a surface of the first artificial graphite particles, wherein the carbon coating layer comprises hard carbon; and second negative electrode active material particles including second artificial graphite particles, wherein a difference between an average particle diameter D50 of the first negative electrode active material particles and an average particle diameter D50 of the second negative electrode active material particles is 5 ?m or less, and a temperature at an exothermic peak in differential thermogravimetric analysis of the carbon coating layer is in a range of 580° C. to 690° C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a negative electrode active material which includes: secondary particles having a plurality of primary particles which include a silicon oxide composite including i) Si, ii) a silicon oxide represented by SiOx (0<x?2), and iii) a metal silicate containing Si and M, wherein M is at least one of Li and Mg; and a first carbon coating layer disposed partially or totally on the surfaces of the primary particles to interconnect and fix the primary particles; and a second carbon coating layer disposed on the surfaces of the secondary particles, wherein the second carbon coating layer has higher crystallinity as compared to the first carbon coating layer, and the primary particles have an average particle diameter (D50) of 0.1-3.5 ?m. A negative electrode including the negative electrode active material, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for producing a composite conductive material having excellent dispersibility is provided. The method includes supporting a catalyst on surfaces of carbon particles; heat treating the catalyst in a helium or hydrogen atmosphere such that the catalyst penetrate the surfaces of the carbon particles and are impregnated beneath the surfaces of the carbon particles at a contact point between the carbon particles and the impregnated catalyst; and heating the carbon particles having the impregnated catalyst disposed therein in the presence of a source gas to grow carbon nanofibers from the impregnated catalyst to form a composite conductive material, wherein the source gas contains a carbon source, and wherein the carbon nanofibers extend from the contact point to above the surfaces of the carbon particles.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery which includes first negative electrode active material particles including artificial graphite particles and a carbon coating layer formed on the artificial graphite particle; and second negative electrode active material particles including natural graphite particles, wherein the first negative electrode active material particles have a larger average particle diameter (D50) than an average particle diameter (D50) of the second negative electrode active material particles, and a weight ratio of the first negative electrode active material particles and the second negative electrode active material particles is in a range of 70:30 to 95:5.

Abstract: Disclosed is a negative electrode active material which includes: a silicon oxide composite including i) Si, ii) a silicon oxide represented by SiOx (0<x?2), and iii) magnesium silicate containing Si and Mg; and a carbon coating layer positioned on the surface of the silicon oxide composite and including a carbonaceous material, wherein X-ray diffractometry of the negative electrode active material shows peaks of Mg2SiO4 and MgSiO3 at the same time and shows no peak of MgO; and the ratio of peak intensity, I (Mg2SiO4)/I (MgSiO3), which is intensity I (Mg2SiO4) of peaks that belong to Mg2SiO4 to intensity I (MgSiO3) of peaks that belong to MgSiO3 is smaller than 1, the peaks that belong to Mg2SiO4 are observed at 2?=32.2±0.2°, and the peaks that belong to MgSiO3 are observed at 2?=30.9±0.2°.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrode having a three-dimensional structure, the electrode including: a porous nonwoven web including a plurality of polymer fibers that form an interconnected porous network; an active material composite positioned among the polymer fibers and including active material particles and a first conductive material; and a second conductive material positioned on an outer surface of the active material composite, wherein the interconnected porous network is filled homogeneously with the active material composite and the second conductive material to form a super lattice structure, and an electrochemical device including the electrode having a three-dimensional structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cable-type secondary battery which includes: at least one inner electrode; a separation layer formed to surround the outer surface of the inner electrode and configured to prevent a short of the electrodes; a sheet-type outer electrode surrounding the separation layer or the inner electrode and formed by spiral winding; and a polymer electrolyte coating layer formed to surround the sheet-type outer electrode, wherein the sheet-type outer electrode is formed by spiral winding to avoid an overlap.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, a method of producing the negative electrode, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode. Specifically, the negative electrode can reduce the initial irreversibility of the negative electrode because lithium metal ions are diffused into the negative electrode active material layer by pre-lithiation, and the negative electrode active material layer into which the lithium metal ions are diffused includes a plurality of line-shaped concave portions, so that when the lithium secondary battery is produced later, the concave portion keeps an electrolyte solution therein well to improve the impregnability of the electrolyte solution, thereby ultimately improving the electrochemical performance of the lithium secondary battery.