Abstract: Provided is a novel binder for a secondary battery including a copolymer for a binder for a secondary battery containing specific repeating units. A negative electrode manufactured by mixing the binder with a negative electrode active material and a secondary battery including the negative electrode have excellent mechanical properties and an improved binding force, thereby effectively suppressing exfoliation and desorption of the negative electrode and expansion of the negative electrode even when a silicon-based negative electrode active material is used, and providing a negative electrode for a secondary battery having improved charge/discharge cycle characteristics and battery performance, and a secondary battery including the same.

Abstract: Provided are a novel binder for a secondary battery including a copolymer containing specific repeating units, and a binder composition for a secondary battery including the binder for a secondary battery and a compound containing an amine group and a hydroxyl group. When the binder for a secondary battery or the binder composition for a secondary battery is applied to a negative electrode and a secondary battery, expansion of the negative electrode is effectively suppressed, and the charge/discharge cycle characteristics and the performance of the secondary battery are significantly improved. Furthermore, the binder for a secondary battery has improved coatability and adhesion to effectively suppress the exfoliation and desorption of the negative electrode, thereby improving the performance of the secondary battery.

Abstract: An anode active material for a secondary battery includes an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer formed on the anode current collector and including carbon-based active material particles and a silicon coating formed on surfaces of the carbon-based active material particles. A surface content of silicon of the anode active material layer measured by an X-ray photoelectric spectroscopy (XPS) is in a range from 3 atom % to 25 atom %. A peak intensity ratio defined as a ratio of a second peak intensity corresponding to a peak intensity at a binding energy in a range from 102 eV to 106 eV relative to a first peak intensity corresponding to a peak intensity at a binding energy in a range from 98 eV to 102 eV is in a range from 0.05 to 1.

Abstract: Provided are a binder for a secondary battery, a negative electrode including the same, and a secondary battery including the same. More particularly, the binder for a secondary battery prepared by reacting a copolymer including specific repeating units and a crosslinking agent including two or more aldehyde groups has excellent mechanical properties and effectively improves a binding force. The negative electrode and the secondary battery including the binder for a secondary battery effectively suppress expansion of a negative electrode to manufacture a secondary battery having excellent charge/discharge cycle characteristics and battery performance.

Abstract: Provided are a binder composition for a secondary battery, a negative electrode including the same, and a secondary battery including the same. More particularly, the binder composition for a secondary battery having a three-dimensional structure, which is prepared by mixing a copolymer having specific repeating units and a polymer-type additive containing nitrogen (N) bonded to two or three carbons (C) in the repeating unit, has excellent mechanical properties and may effectively improve a binding force. The negative electrode and the secondary battery including the binder composition for a secondary battery effectively suppress expansion of a negative electrode to manufacture a secondary battery having excellent charge/discharge cycle characteristics and battery performance.

Abstract: Provided are a binder for a secondary battery, a negative electrode including the same, and a secondary battery including the same. More particularly, the binder for a secondary battery including a crosslinked product of a copolymer with a silane-based crosslinking agent according to the present invention may have excellent thermal resistance and mechanical properties and effectively improve a binding force, and the negative electrode for a secondary battery and the secondary battery including the same may effectively suppress expansion of a negative electrode to improve charge/discharge cycle characteristics and performance of the secondary battery.

Abstract: An anode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a carbon-based particle including pores therein, a silicon-containing coating layer formed at an inside the pores of the carbon-based particle or on a surface of the carbon-based particle, and a carbon coating layer formed on the silicon-containing coating layer. A full width at half maximum (FWHM) of an O1s peak of a surface measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is 2.0 or more. A lithium secondary battery including the anode active material having improved initial discharge capacity and capacity efficiency is provided.

Abstract: An anode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a core portion including a solid electrolyte, and a shell portion encapsulating the core portion and including a silicon-based active material. A lithium secondary includes a case and an electrode assembly accommodated in the case. The electrode assembly includes an anode including the anode active material and a cathode facing the anode.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery, wherein there is a pre-lithiated negative electrode such that a total irreversible capacity of a positive electrode is greater than a total irreversible capacity of the negative electrode while satisfying 150< (negative electrode discharge capacity/lithium secondary battery discharge capacity)×100<300, and a relative potential of the negative electrode with respect to lithium metal in an operating voltage range of the lithium secondary battery is in a range of ?0.1 V to 0.7 V. Such a lithium secondary battery is capable of maintaining a capacity retention of 60% or more even after 500 cycles or more while achieving an energy density per volume of 800 Wh/L or more.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, in which a LiF layer comprising amorphous LiF in an amount of 30 mol % or more is formed on a negative electrode active material layer comprising a carbon-based active material, a lithium secondary battery comprising the same, and a preparation method thereof.

Abstract: An anode active material including different types of particles, an anode composition including the anode active material and a lithium secondary battery including the anode active material are disclosed. In an aspect, an anode active material includes a carbon-based active material, and a silicon-based active material having a minimum particle diameter (Dmin) in a range from 0.5 ?m to 2.5 ?m, a volume average particle diameter (D50) in a range from 3.0 ?m to 7.0 ?m, and a specific surface area in a range from 0.1 m2/g to 2.5 m2/g.

Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery including: a silicon oxide (SiOx, 0<x?2) composite including an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal-containing phosphate; and an aluminum-containing phosphate.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material including artificial graphite secondary particles comprising artificial graphite primary particles having an average particle diameter (D50) of 10 nm to 9 ?m, said artificial graphite secondary particles being formed by granulating said artificial graphite primary particles, wherein a value (V1) obtained by dividing a minimum particle diameter (Dmin) of the secondary particles by the average particle diameter (D50) of the initial particles is 0.50 to 0.8, and a value (V2) obtained by dividing the minimum particle diameter (Dmin) of the secondary particles by an average particle diameter (D50) of the secondary particles is 0.23 to 0.4.

Abstract: An anode active material for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery are provided. The anode active material includes a carbon-based particle including pores formed in at least one of an inside of the particle and a surface of the particle and having a pore size of the carbon-based particle is 20 nm or less, and silicon formed at an inside of the pores of the carbon-based particle or on the surface of the carbon-based particle. Silicon has an amorphous structure or a crystallite size of silicon measured by an XRD analysis is 7 nm or less. Difference between volume expansion ratios of carbon and silicon can be reduced to improve life-span property of the secondary battery.

Abstract: An anode active material for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery are provided. The anode active material includes a carbon-based particle including pores formed in at least one of an inside of the particle and a surface of the particle and having a pore size of the carbon-based particle is 20 nm or less, and silicon formed at an inside of the pores of the carbon-based particle or on the surface of the carbon-based particle. A peak intensity ratio in a Raman spectrum of silicon defined as I(515)/I(480) is 1.2 or less. Difference between volume expansion ratios of carbon and silicon can be reduced to improve life-span property of the secondary battery.

Abstract: Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a silicon-based anode active material for a lithium secondary battery and an anode formed using the same. The silicon-based anode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to exemplary embodiments includes a surface coated with carbon and doped with lithium. A ratio of a peak area at 102.5 eV to a total area of a peak area at 100 eV, the peak area at 102.5 eV, and a peak area at 104 eV, which appear in an Si2p spectrum when measuring by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), is 40% or less, thereby allowing an electrode to be stably manufactured without changing physical properties of the slurry during manufacturing the electrode. In addition, the anode active material for a secondary battery may be usefully used to manufacture a lithium secondary battery having high discharge capacity and high energy density characteristics.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery including a silicon oxide which includes a carbon coating layer on a surface thereof and is doped with magnesium. A ratio of peak area at 1303 eV to a sum of a peak area at 1304.5 eV and a peak area at 1303 eV, which appear in a Mg1s spectrum when measuring by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), is 60% or less.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for an electrochemical device which has improved quick charging characteristics. The negative electrode active material includes two types of graphite particles having a different particle diameter and shows a bimodal distribution, wherein the ratio of the average particle diameter (D50) of the first graphite particles to the average particle diameter (D50) of the second graphite particles is larger than 1.7.

Abstract: Provided is a negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery including a core-shell composite including: a core including a silicon oxide (SiOx, 0<x?2) containing a lithium compound and a graphitic material; and a shell including amorphous carbon, positioned on the core. The silicon oxide (SiOx, 0<x?2) includes at least one lithium silicate selected from Li2SiO3, Li2Si2O5, and Li4SiO4 in at least a part of the silicon oxide.

Abstract: An anode composition for a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a metal-doped silicon oxide (SiOx, 0<x<2) particle satisfying Equation 1 and including a metal silicate area on a surface portion thereof, and an organic acid. Thus, gas generation and viscosity change rate of the composition are reduced to improve life-span property.