Abstract: A composite cathode active material, a method of preparing the composite cathode active material, a cathode including the composite cathode active material, and a lithium battery including the cathode. The composite cathode active material includes a lithium intercalatable material; and a garnet oxide, wherein an amount of the garnet oxide is about 1.9 wt % or less, based on a total weight of the composite cathode active material.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, the electrolyte including a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and a polar additive based on a substituted hetero-bicyclic compound. Oxidation of the electrolyte is prevented by formation of a polar thin film on a surface portion of the positive electrode, which facilitates transfer of lithium ions. The lithium secondary batteries using the electrolyte have excellent high temperature life characteristics and high temperature conservation characteristics.

Abstract: A positive active material including: a lithium-containing oxide, and a lithium-intercalatable phosphate compound disposed on the lithium-containing oxide.

Abstract: A composite cathode active material including a lithium metal oxide including an oxide Formula 1 and sulfur, xLi2MnO3.(1?x?y)LiMO2.yLiMn2O4??(1) wherein 0<x<0.6, 0<y<0.1, and M is at least one selected from a metal and a metalloid.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, the electrolyte including a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and an additive represented by Formula 1 below: wherein CY1 and R1 through R7 are the same as defined above; and a lithium secondary battery containing the electrolyte.

Abstract: A composition for filling an ion exchange membrane, a method of preparing the ion exchange membrane, the filled ion exchange membrane, and a redox flow battery using the filled ion exchange membrane. The composition includes an ion conductive material and a water soluble support.

Abstract: A composite cathode active material including a lithium metal oxide including an oxide Formula 1 and sulfur, xLi2MnO3.(1?x?y)LiMO2.yLiMn2O4??(1) wherein 0<x<0.6, 0<y<0.1, and M is at least one selected from a metal and a metalloid.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, the electrolyte including: a lithium salt; a non-aqueous organic solvent; and a piperazine derivative represented by Formula 1 having an oxidation potential lower than an oxidation potential of the non-aqueous organic solvent by about 2 V to about 4 V: wherein, in Formula 1, X, Y, and R1 to R4 are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A composite cathode active material including: a composite oxide capable of intercalation and deintercalation of lithium; a carbon nanostructure; and a material which is chemically inert to lithium.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a redox flow battery and a redox flow battery including the electrolyte, the electrolyte including a metal-ligand coordination compound as a cation and an anion containing at least four atoms linked to each other by a straight chain in a certain direction.

Abstract: A composite cathode active material, a method of preparing the composite cathode active material, a cathode including the composite cathode active material, and a lithium battery including the cathode. The composite cathode active material includes a lithium intercalatable material; and a garnet oxide, wherein an amount of the garnet oxide is about 1.9 wt % or less, based on a total weight of the composite cathode active material.

Abstract: A method of forming a carbon coating includes heat treating lithium transition metal composite oxide Li0.9+aMbM?cNdOe, in an atmosphere of a gas mixture including carbon dioxide and compound CnH(2n+2?a)[OH]a, wherein n is 1 to 20 and a is 0 or 1, or compound CnH(2n), wherein n is 2 to 6, wherein 0?a?1.6, 0?b?2, 0?c?2, 0?d?2, b, c, and d are not simultaneously equal to 0, e ranges from 1 to 4, M and M? are different from each other and are selected from Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, Fe, Cr, Ge, Al, Mg, Zr, W, Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt, Sc, Ti, V, Ga, Nb, Ag, Hf, Au, Cs, B, and Ba, and N is different from M and M? and is selected from Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, Fe, Cr, Ge, Al, Mg, Zr, W, Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt, Sc, Ti, V, Ga, Nb, Ag, Hf, Au, Cs, B, Ba, and a combination thereof, or selected from Ti, V, Si, B, F, S, and P, and at least one of the M, M?, and N comprises Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, or Fe.

Abstract: A wafer transfer blade including a body including metal oxide and configured to support a wafer, and an adsorbing part on the body, the adsorbing part having at least one therein and configured to apply vacuum pressure to attach the wafer on the body may be provided. The body may include metal oxide to prevent static electricity.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery including a lithium salt, a nonaqueous organic solvent, and an additive, in which the additive is composed of one or more compounds including a purinone or a purinone derivative. The lithium secondary battery with improved life and high-temperature storage may be provided by using the electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, the electrolyte including a lithium salt; a nonaqueous organic solvent; and an additive composition, wherein the additive composition comprises at least one of a first compound of Formula 1 and a second compound of Formula 2: wherein A1, A2, C1 to C4, R1 to R4, X1 to X4, Y1 to Y4, Z1 to Z4, L1, L2, p, and q are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A composite cathode active material, a method of preparing the composite cathode active material, and a cathode and a lithium battery each including the composite cathode active material. The composite cathode active material includes a core including a lithium intercalatable oxide which enables intercalation and deintercalation of lithium; and a coating layer disposed on at least a portion of the core, wherein the conductive layer includes a lithium metal oxide which is an inactive lithium ion conductor, and wherein the lithium metal oxide contains a metal which has an atomic weight of 27 Daltons or more and is selected an element of Groups 3 to 14 of the Periodic Table of the Elements.

Abstract: A positive active material including: a lithium-containing oxide, and a lithium-intercalatable phosphate compound disposed on the lithium-containing oxide.

Abstract: An organic electrolyte solution including a metal-ligand coordination compound, wherein the ligand is an organic phosphate compound.

Abstract: A positive active material including a lithium transition metal oxide with a layered or spinel structure; and a plurality of CNTs on a surface of the lithium transition metal oxide.

Abstract: A surface-treated electrode active material, a method of surface treating an electrode active material, an electrode, and a lithium secondary battery. The surface-treated electrode active material includes a surface metal oxide layer having higher degree of reduction of a metal than that of a bulk metal oxide layer. The method includes: forming a mixture by adding an untreated electrode active material comprising a metal oxide, and at least one of a basic material and a reducing material to a solvent; and stirring the mixture.