Abstract: This application relates to a negative electrode plate, a secondary battery and apparatus thereof. The secondary battery of the present application comprises a negative electrode plate, the negative electrode plate comprises a composite current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the composite current collector, the negative electrode active material layer comprises a silicon-based active material, the silicon-based active material accounts for 0.5 wt % to 50 wt % of total mass of the negative electrode active material layer, and the composite current collector comprises a polymer support layer and a metal conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the polymer support layer. The secondary battery and the negative electrode plate achieve good coordination between the current collector and the negative electrode active material layer.

Abstract: This application provides a copper plating solution for a composite current collector, including a leveling agent represented by a general formula (1) where an anion X is F?, Cl?, or Br?; R1, R2, and R3 are each independently selected from O or S; and R4, R5, and R6 are each independently selected from hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted vinyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, and a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl.

Abstract: A battery cell, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electrical apparatus are provided. The battery cell includes an intermediate portion and side portions located on two sides of the intermediate portion in a thickness direction, the intermediate portion comprising m battery cell sub-units and the side portions comprising n battery cell sub-units, where m+n is an integer greater than or equal to 3. Each of the battery cell sub-units comprises a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet and a separator arranged between the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet, and each of the m battery cell sub-units has a dry battery cell nail penetration short-circuit resistance greater than that of each of the n battery cell sub-units.

Abstract: A positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode plate, a battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus including the positive electrode current collector are provided. In some embodiments, a positive electrode current collector is provided, including an organic support layer and an aluminum-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the organic support layer, where the aluminum-based conductive layer contains Al and at least one modifying element selected from O, N, F, B, S, and P, an XPS spectrogram of the aluminum-based conductive layer with a surface passivation layer removed through etching has at least a first peak falling in a range of 70 eV to 73.5 eV and a second peak falling in a range of 73.5 eV to 78 eV, and a ratio x of peak intensity of the second peak to that of the first peak satisfies 0<x?3.0.

Abstract: A positive current collector, a secondary battery, and an electrical device are provided. In some embodiments, the positive current collector includes: a support layer; and a conductive layer located on at least one surface of the support layer, where the conductive layer includes a first metal portion configured to connect to a tab, where, along a thickness direction of the conductive layer, the first metal portion includes at least three sublayers, and melting points of the at least three sublayers rise stepwise in ascending order of distance from the support layer. In the embodiments of this application, the first metal portion includes at least three sublayers, and the melting points of the at least three sublayers rise stepwise in ascending order of distance from the support layer, thereby helping increase a bonding force between the conductive layer and the support layer and reducing the probability of peel-off and delamination between the layers.

Abstract: This application provides a current collector and a preparation method thereof, a secondary battery containing such current collector, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electric apparatus. The current collector in this application includes a support layer, a binder layer, and a metal layer, where the binder layer is arranged between the support layer and the metal layer, the binder layer includes an organic binder and inorganic particles, a thickness D0 of the binder layer is 1.0-5.0 ?m, optionally 1.0-3.0 ?m; and the inorganic particles include large particles with a median particle size D50large and small particles with a median particle size D50small, and the median particle sizes of the large particles and the small particles satisfy the following relationships: D50large>D50small; D50large=(0.5-0.9)×D0; and D50small=(0.1-0.4)×D0.

Abstract: A positive current collector, a secondary battery, and an electrical device are provided. In some embodiments, the positive current collector includes: a support layer; and a conductive layer located on at least one surface of the support layer, where the conductive layer includes a first metal portion configured to connect to a tab, where, along a thickness direction of the conductive layer, the first metal portion includes at least three sublayers, and melting points of the at least three sublayers rise stepwise in ascending order of distance from the support layer. In the embodiments of this application, the first metal portion includes at least three sublayers, and the melting points of the at least three sublayers rise stepwise in ascending order of distance from the support layer, thereby helping increase a bonding force between the conductive layer and the support layer and reducing the probability of peel-off and delamination between the layers.

Abstract: A positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode plate, a battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus including the positive electrode current collector are provided. In some embodiments, a positive electrode current collector is provided, including an organic support layer and an aluminum-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the organic support layer, where the aluminum-based conductive layer contains Al and at least one modifying element selected from O, N, F, B, S, and P, an XPS spectrogram of the aluminum-based conductive layer with a surface passivation layer removed through etching has at least a first peak falling in a range of 70 eV to 73.5 eV and a second peak falling in a range of 73.5 eV to 78 eV, and a ratio x of peak intensity of the second peak to that of the first peak satisfies 0<x?3.0.

Abstract: A composite current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer. The support layer has two surfaces opposite to each other along a thickness direction. The conductive layer is provided on the two surfaces and includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a first sub-portion and a second sub-portion provided on the two surfaces, respectively. The second portion includes a third sub-portion and a fourth sub-portion. The third sub-portion and the first sub-portion are integrally provided. The fourth sub-portion and the second sub-portion are integrally provided. The third sub-portion and the fourth sub-portion both project from the support layer. The third sub-portion and the fourth sub-portion are affixed to each other and fused as a whole.

Abstract: This application discloses a lithium-ion secondary battery. The lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator, and an electrolytic solution.

Abstract: This application provides a copper plating solution for a composite current collector, including a leveling agent represented by a general formula (1) where an anion X is F?, Cl?, or Br?; R1, R2, and R3 are each independently selected from O or S; and R4, R5, and R6 are each independently selected from hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted vinyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, and a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composite positive electrode current collector. On a surface of an insulation layer, a protective layer, a graphene metallization layer and a conductive layer may be arranged in sequence; and the protective layer may comprise a metal oxide, and the graphene metallization layer may contain highly reduced graphene oxide having an oxygen-containing organic group.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lithium ion secondary battery, a battery core, a negative electrode plate and an apparatus containing the lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery includes a battery core and an electrolytic solution, the battery core including a positive electrode plate comprising a positive current collector and a positive active material layer, a separator, and a negative electrode plate comprising a negative current collector and a negative active material layer, wherein the positive current collector and/or the negative current collector are a composite current collector, the composite current collector comprises a polymer-based support layer and a conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer, and the composite current collector has a thermal conductivity in a range of 0.01 W/(m·K) to 10 W/(m·K), preferably in a range of 0.1 W/(m·K) to 2 W/(m·K).

Abstract: A positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode plate, a battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus including the positive electrode current collector are provided. In some embodiments, a positive electrode current collector is provided, including an organic support layer and an aluminum-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the organic support layer, where the aluminum-based conductive layer contains Al and at least one modifying element selected from O, N, F, B, S, and P, an XPS spectrogram of the aluminum-based conductive layer with a surface passivation layer removed through etching has at least a first peak falling in a range of 70 eV to 73.5 eV and a second peak falling in a range of 73.5 eV to 78 eV, and a ratio x of peak intensity of the second peak to that of the first peak satisfies 0<x?3.0.

Abstract: This application relates to a negative electrode plate, a secondary battery and apparatus thereof. The secondary battery of the present application comprises a negative electrode plate, the negative electrode plate comprises a composite current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the composite current collector, the negative electrode active material layer comprises a silicon-based active material, the silicon-based active material accounts for 0.5 wt % to 50 wt % of total mass of the negative electrode active material layer, and the composite current collector comprises a polymer support layer and a metal conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the polymer support layer, and the composite current collector has a brittleness parameter C ranging from 0.03 to 0.5. The secondary battery and the negative electrode plate achieve good coordination between the current collector and the negative electrode active material layer.

Abstract: The present application discloses a composite current collector, an electrode plate and an electrochemical device. The composite current collector includes an organic support layer and a metal conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the organic support layer; and the composite current collector has a brittleness parameter C of 0.01?C?0.5. The composite current collector provided by the present application has relatively high mechanics and mechanical properties which having good electrical conductivity and current collection performance, which can improve preparation yield of the composite current collector, the electrode plate and the electrochemical device and their reliability during use, and enables the electrochemical device to have relatively high electrochemical performance and gravimetric energy density.

Abstract: The present application discloses a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode plate, an electrochemical device, and an apparatus. The negative electrode current collector includes a polymer material-based support layer and a copper-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer; wherein a thickness D1 of the copper-based conductive layer, a tensile strength T of the support layer, and a thickness D2 of the support layer satisfy a relational formula 0.01?(300×D1)/(T×D2)?0.5. The negative electrode current collector has relatively high mechanics and mechanical properties, good electrical conductivity and current collection performance and low weight, which can improve preparation yield of the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode plate and the electrochemical device and their reliability during use, and is beneficial to enabling the electrochemical device to have relatively high electrochemical performance and gravimetric energy density.

Abstract: The present application discloses a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode plate and an electrochemical device. The negative electrode current collector includes an organic support layer and a copper-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the organic support layer; and a copper-based crystal grain size in the copper-based conductive layer is from 10 nm to 500 nm. The negative electrode current collector provided by the present application has good mechanics properties while having less weight and good electrical conductivity and current collection performance, which can improve preparation yields of the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode plate and the electrochemical device and their safety and reliability during use, and enables the electrochemical device to have relatively high gravimetric energy density and good electrochemical performance.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lithium ion secondary battery, a battery core, a negative electrode plate and an apparatus containing the lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery includes a battery core and an electrolytic solution, the battery core including a positive electrode plate comprising a positive current collector and a positive active material layer, a separator, and a negative electrode plate comprising a negative current collector and a negative active material layer, wherein the positive current collector and/or the negative current collector are a composite current collector, the composite current collector comprises a polymer-based support layer and a conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer, and the composite current collector has a thermal conductivity in a range of 0.01 W/(m·K) to 10 W/(m·K), preferably in a range of 0.1 W/(m·K) to 2 W/(m·K).

Abstract: This application discloses a lithium-ion secondary battery. The lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator, and an electrolytic solution.