Abstract: A multi-position seat configured to maximize usability thereof through various changes in the positions of a seat back and a seat cushion may include a height assembly configured to move a base frame mounted on a vehicle body, a slide assembly configured to move a seat cushion frame, which is positioned above the base frame and is connected to the base frame via a link mechanism, upwards and downwards by sliding action of the link mechanism in a forward and backward direction, a tilt assembly configured to move a rear end portion of the seat cushion frame upwards and downwards, and a seat back frame hingedly coupled to a rear end portion of the base frame to be reclined.

Abstract: A backboard assembly for a vehicular rear seat is disclosed. The backboard assembly includes an upper part and a lower part, which are made of a hard plastic material. The backboard assembly prevents the formation of a gap between the lower part and a luggage board, regardless of the operational mode of the rear seat. When a seat back is folded, the upper part, the lower part, and the luggage board are aligned in a horizontal direction, thereby allowing the space for passengers in the rear seat to be completely integrated with a luggage compartment.

Abstract: A heat exchange device effectively collects heat in a device, in which high temperature occurs, such as a scrubber. The heat exchange device includes a first heat exchange unit having a reactor positioned on the center thereof and having a first passage, which is arranged to enclose the reactor and discharges a first gas generated in the reactor, and a second passage, which is arranged adjacent to the first passage and introduces a second gas introduced from the outside. A second heat exchange unit is installed to enclose the first heat exchange unit and having a third passage, which is connected to the first passage and receives the first gas from the first passage to discharge the first gas to the outside, and a fourth passage, which is arranged adjacent to the third passage and introduces the second gas introduced from the outside into the second passage.

Abstract: A negative active material, a method of preparing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode. The negative active material includes a plurality of titanium oxide nanotubes, wherein the Raman shift of the negative active material includes a characteristic peak located at a Raman shift between about 680 cm?1 and about 750 cm?1.

Abstract: Provided herein is a negative active material including an ordered porous manganese oxide, wherein pores of the ordered porous manganese oxide have a bimodal size distribution. Provided herein is a method of preparing a negative active material that includes the ordered porous manganese oxide. The invention also includes a negative electrode which includes the negative active material and a lithium battery which includes the negative electrode.

Abstract: A negative active material including graphite; silicon nanowires; and silicon nanoparticles, wherein a silicon nanowire of the silicon nanowires and a silicon nanoparticle of the silicon nanoparticles are each disposed on a particle of the graphite to form a composite with the graphite.

Abstract: An anode for a lithium secondary battery including: a composite anode active material including an anode active material, and a water-soluble polymer disposed on a surface of the anode active material; and a binder disposed on the composite anode active material, the binder including one or more selected from a polyimide, a polyamideimide, a polyamide, and a polyetherimide.

Abstract: A gel polymer electrolyte including: an organic solvent; a lithium salt that reacts with residual water contained in the organic solvent to produce at least one material selected from the group consisting of a protonic acid and a Lewis acid; and a polymer that is generated by polymerizing at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of monomers represented by Formulae 1 to 3 below: wherein in Formulae 1 to 3, R1 to R31 are the same as defined in the detailed description section of the specification.

Abstract: A polymer including a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1 and a second repeating unit including a substituted or unsubstituted C2-C30 alkenyl group: wherein, in Formula 1, groups R, R?, A, A?, Y, and Y? are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A lithium titanium oxide spinel having a ratio of FWHM1/FWHM2 at a spinning rate of about 5 kHz to about 50 kHz of about 1.70 or less, wherein FWHM1 is a full width at half maximum of a 7Li peak present about ?10 parts per million to about +10 parts per million in a solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of the lithium titanium oxide, FWHM2 is a full width at half maximum of a 7Li peak present about ?10 parts per million to about +10 parts per million in a solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of a lithium chloride standard reagent, and FWHM1 and FWHM2 are measured at the same spinning rate.

Abstract: A stack type battery includes a stack including: a plurality of cathode sheets; a plurality of anode sheets, which are alternately disposed with the cathode sheets; and a plurality of separators, where each of the separator is disposed between a corresponding cathode sheet of the cathode sheets and a corresponding anode sheet of the anode sheets, where the stack includes first to third protrusions, the first protrusion includes a portion of the cathode sheets which does not overlap the anode sheets and the separators, and the second protrusion includes a portion of the anode sheets which does not overlap the cathode sheets and the separators.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a lithium battery including a protected negative electrode containing a lithium metal or a lithium alloy, wherein the positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material, a polyoxometalate compound, and a conductive material. Also provided is a lithium battery including the positive electrode.

Abstract: An electrode active material, an electrode including the electrode active material, a lithium battery including the electrode, and a method of preparing the electrode active material. The electrode active material includes a core having at least one of a metal or a metal oxide that enables intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions and a crystalline carbon thin film that is formed on at least a portion of a surface of the core. The electrode active material has a nano-structure.

Abstract: A polymer including a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1, a polymer composition for a lithium battery including the polymer, an electrode for a lithium battery including the polymer composition, and a lithium battery including the electrode: wherein, in Formula 1, R, R?, A, A?, Y, and Y? are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A flexible secondary battery includes an electrode stack structure. The electrode stack structure includes a first electrode layer including a first metal current collector, a second electrode layer including a second metal current collector, an isolation layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, connection tabs respectively extended from an end portion of the first metal current collector at a first end portion of the first electrode layer and an end portion of the second metal current collector at a first end portion of the second electrode layer; and a fixing element which fixes the end portions of the first and second metal current collectors only at a first end portion of the electrode stack structure. Second end portions of the first and second electrode layers opposite to the first end portions thereof are movable.

Abstract: Provided are redox flow batteries employing supporting electrolyte of a ring- or spiro-type structure and having high energy efficiencies and energy densities.

Abstract: A redox flow battery. A metal-ligand coordination compound including an aromatic ligand that contains an electron withdrawing group is used as the catholyte and/or the anolyte so that a redox flow battery having high energy density and excellent charge/discharge efficiency may be provided.

Abstract: An electrolyte composition including a macro azo initiator containing a polyethylene oxide repeating unit, and a multi-functional urethane acrylate-based monomer, a gel polymer electrolyte including the electrolyte composition, and a lithium battery including the gel polymer electrolyte.

Abstract: A flexible battery a first electrode layer, a first current collector layer disposed on the first electrode layer, where a plurality of through-holes is defined in the first current collector layer, a separator disposed on the first current collector layer, a second current collector layer disposed on the separator, where a plurality of through-holes is defined in the second current collector layer, and a second electrode layer disposed on the second current collector layer.

Abstract: A redox flow battery includes a positive electrode electrolyte and a negative electrode electrolyte, each of which includes a metal-ligand coordination complex, in which a metal of a metal-ligand coordination complex of the positive electrode electrolyte is different from a metal of a metal-ligand coordination complex of the negative electrode electrolyte. Due to use of different metals in the positive and negative electrode electrolytes, the redox flow battery has high energy density and high charge and discharge efficiency.