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: A lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer having a positive electrode active material containing an overlithiated manganese-based oxide represented by Formula 1 below, and the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer having a silicon-based negative electrode active material, LiaNibCocMndMeO2??[Formula 1] wherein, M is at least one selected from the group consisting of Al, B, Co, W, Mg, V, Ti, Zn, Ga, In, Ru, Nb, Sn, Sr, and Zr, and 1<a, 0?b?0.5, 0?c?0.1, 0.5?d<1.0, and 0?e?0.2, and. Preferably, in the Formula 1, 1.1?a?1.5, 0.1?b?0.4, 0?c?0.05, 0.5?d?0.80, and 0?e?0.1.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a secondary battery is provided. The method includes accommodating an electrode assembly in a battery case, injecting a first electrolyte composition into the battery case to impregnate the electrode assembly, injecting a second electrolyte composition into the battery case, and curing the second electrolyte composition, wherein an electrode tab is connected to the electrode assembly and protrudes to the outside of the electrode assembly, wherein the first electrolyte composition includes a 1-1st lithium salt containing at least one selected from the group consisting of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI), and a first solvent, wherein the second electrolyte composition includes an oligomer and a second solvent and does not include lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI).

Abstract: A secondary battery including an electrode assembly, a gel polymer electrolyte, and a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly and the gel polymer electrolyte. The electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of separators, the plurality of electrodes are stacked in a vertical direction, and each of the plurality of separators is disposed between the stacked electrodes. The separator includes a porous substrate and a ceramic coating layer disposed on both sides of the porous substrate, and the ceramic coating layer contains inorganic particles and a binder, wherein the inorganic particles are included in an amount ranging from 92 wt % to less than 100 wt %, and the binder is included in an amount ranging from greater than 0 wt % to 8 wt %. The method of making the battery is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silicon-carbon composite negative electrode active material, a negative electrode including the same, and a secondary battery, wherein the silicon-carbon composite negative electrode active material includes a core containing SiOX (0?X<2), a carbon layer covering at least a portion of the surface of the core, a carbon nanotube structure positioned on the carbon layer, and a polyvinylidene fluoride coating at least a portion of the carbon nanotube structure, wherein the carbon nanotube structure has a structure formed by arranging and bonding 2 to 5,000 single-walled carbon nanotube units side by side, and a portion of the carbon nanotube structure is bonded to the carbon layer.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, including silicon oxide particles, wherein the silicon oxide has a full width at half maximum peak ranging between 2 and 6 in a particle size distribution and the silicon oxide particles have an average particle size (D50) of 1 ?m to 20 ?m, and a negative electrode and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The negative electrode active material according to the disclosure has outstanding life performance and output performance.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including an electrode and a separator which are alternately stacked; a gel polymer electrolyte; and a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly and the gel polymer electrolyte. The separator includes a porous substrate and a ceramic coating layer disposed on both sides of the porous substrate, and the ceramic coating layer contains from 92 wt % to less than 100 wt % of inorganic particles and from greater than 0 wt % to 8 wt % of a binder.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a secondary battery that includes an electrode assembly including an electrode and a separator which are alternately stacked, a gel polymer electrolyte, and a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly and the gel polymer electrolyte, wherein the separator includes a porous substrate and a ceramic coating layer disposed on both sides of the porous substrate, the ceramic coating layer includes inorganic particles in an amount of 92 wt % or greater and less than 100 wt % and a binder in an amount of greater than 0 wt % and 8 wt % or less, the electrode includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and the negative electrode includes a silicon-based active material.

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 method for manufacturing a secondary battery, includes preparing an electrode assembly in which electrodes and a separator are alternately laminated, and an adhesive composition is applied to the surface of at least one of the electrodes or the separator, thereby allowing the electrodes and the separator to adhere to each other; accommodating the electrode assembly in a battery case; injecting a gel polymer electrolyte composition into the battery case to impregnate the electrode assembly with the gel polymer electrolyte composition; curing the gel polymer electrolyte composition; and sealing the battery case, wherein the separator includes a porous substrate and ceramic coating layers disposed on both surfaces of the porous substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, which includes a negative electrode current collector; and a negative electrode active material layer which is formed on the negative electrode current collector and includes a negative electrode active material including a silicon-based material, wherein the negative electrode active material includes lithium intercalated by pre-lithiation, and the extent of pre-lithiation of the negative electrode active material, calculated by a specific equation, is 5 to 50%.

Abstract: A negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material includes a core and a coating layer disposed on the core. The core includes natural graphite and an amorphous carbon layer on the natural graphite, wherein the natural graphite has an average particle diameter, D50, of 10 ?m to 14 ?m.ONH The negative electrode active material includes 1,500 ppm wt % to 2,000 ppm wt % of oxygen, 200 ppm wt % to 300 ppm wt % of nitrogen, and 200 ppm wt % to 300 ppm wt % of hydrogen as measured by an ONH analysis, and the coating layer includes carbon nanofibers.

Abstract: A method of recovering a used battery and apparatus for recovering the capacity of a secondary battery comprising: (1) preparing a secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics; (2) heating the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics while pressing the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics to compress a positive electrode, negative electrode, or separator included in the secondary battery; and (3) charging/discharging the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics, the secondary battery having been pressed and heated, and the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics may be charged and discharged while being pressed and heated, thereby exhibiting an effect of recovering the capacity of the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material that includes an active material core that allows for the intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions. The negative electrode active material also includes a plurality of conductive materials positioned on a surface of the active material core, a plurality of organic linkers each including a hydrophobic group and a polar functional group bonded to the hydrophobic group, and an elastic unit. The elastic unit includes an elastic moiety having two or more binding sites, and a functional group bonded to a binding site of the elastic moiety. The functional group reacts with the polar functional group of the organic linker, and one or more of the plurality of organic linkers are connected to the conductive materials through the hydrophobic groups of the organic linkers.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery including complex particles including silicon oxide particles doped with a metal of lithium, magnesium, calcium or aluminum, a linear conductive material disposed between the doped silicon oxide particles, and a carbon-based binder that hinds the doped silicon oxide particles and the conductive material together. The carbon-based binder is a result of sintering a carbon-based precursor. A method of preparing the negative electrode active material, a negative electrode and a lithium secondary battery are also provided. The negative electrode active material according to the present disclosure is superior at least in initial efficiency and life characteristics.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, a method of producing the negative electrode, a method of producing a pre-lithiated negative electrode by pre-lithiation of the negative electrode, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode. The negative electrode can increase the capacity of a battery and improve the electrochemical performance by securing the initial reversibility of a negative electrode by pre-lithiation, and allow lithium ions to be diffused into a negative electrode active material layer during pre-lithiation without being lost.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a secondary battery including: a negative electrode current collector; and a negative electrode active material layer present on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode active material layer includes a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material for a secondary battery includes natural graphite, and has a sphericity of 0.58 to 1, a tap density of 1.08 g/cc to 1.32 g/cc, and Dmax?Dmin of 16 ?m to 19 ?m, wherein Dmax?Dmin is a difference between a maximum particle diameter Dmax and a minimum particle diameter Dmin in a particle size distribution.

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: A negative electrode and a secondary battery including the negative electrode. The negative electrode including a current collector and a negative electrode active material layer, wherein the negative electrode active material layer includes negative electrode active material particles, the negative electrode active material particles include natural graphite particles and a carbon coating layer disposed on the natural graphite particles. The negative electrode active material particles have a D50 of 6 ?m to 9.2 ?m and a half-width of 5.0 ?m to 5.5 ?m based on a particle size distribution, and the specific surface area of the negative electrode active material particles is from 0.6 m2/g to 2.2 m2/g.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery including: a negative electrode; a positive electrode; a separator disposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode; and an electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode includes SiOx (where 0<x<2) and a carbon-based negative electrode active material, the positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material including a lithium-rich manganese-based oxide in which a manganese content in the total metal except lithium is greater than 50 mol %, and a ratio (Li/Me) of the number of moles of lithium to a total number of moles of metals except lithium is greater than 1, and the depth of using SiOx defined by the disclosed Equation (1) in a state of SOC 0% is 1 to 15, preferably 3 to 15.