Abstract: [Problem] A non-aqueous electrolyte battery is provided that shows good cycle performance and good storage performance under high temperature conditions and exhibits high reliability even with a battery configuration featuring high capacity. A method of manufacturing the battery is also provided.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes: applying a positive electrode slurry onto a positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode slurry containing a positive electrode active material, a conductive agent, carboxymethylcellulose, and a latex-based plastic. The method is characterized by including: a first step of dispersing and mixing the carboxymethylcellulose and the conductive agent in an aqueous solution to prepare a conductive agent slurry; and a second step of dispersing and mixing the positive electrode active material and the latex-based plastic in the conductive agent slurry, to prepare the positive electrode slurry.

Abstract: A practical lithium secondary battery is provided having a greater battery capacity than in the case of using particulate graphite as its negative electrode active material but a less electrical resistance of its negative electrode mixture layer than in the case of using particulate Si as the negative electrode active material. The lithium secondary battery also exhibits good charge-discharge cycle performance. The lithium secondary battery is furnished with a negative electrode having negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer that contains a Sn-based particulate negative electrode active material and a negative electrode binder. The negative electrode binder is melt-bonded to the Sn-based particulate negative electrode active material and/or the negative electrode current collector, and the Sn-based particulate negative electrode active material is made of an intermetallic compound represented as SnXM1-X, where 1>X?1/2 and M is Mn, Fe, Co, or Ni.

Abstract: A rechargeable lithium battery including a negative electrode made by depositing a noncrystalline thin film composed entirely or mainly of silicon on a current collector, a positive electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte, characterized in that said nonaqueous electrolyte contains carbon dioxide dissolved therein.

Abstract: Charge-discharge cycle performance is improved in a lithium secondary battery that uses a material that occludes lithium by alloying with lithium as its negative electrode active material. A lithium secondary battery comprises a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material thin film provided on a negative electrode current collector, a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, in which the negative electrode active material is a material that occludes lithium by alloying with lithium, the ratio of the discharge capacity per unit area of the negative electrode to the discharge capacity per unit area of the positive electrode is from 1.5 to 3, and the ratio of the thickness (?m) of the negative electrode active material to the arithmetical mean roughness Ra (?m) of the surface of the negative electrode current collector is 50 or less.