Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode material which includes a first positive electrode active material and a second positive electrode active material, wherein the second positive electrode active material has an electrical conductivity of 0.1 ?S/cm to 150 ?S/cm, which is measured after the second positive electrode active material is prepared in the form of a pellet by compressing the second positive electrode active material at a rolling load of 400 kgf to 2,000 kgf, a method of preparing the positive electrode material, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode material.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a positive electrode active material includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide containing nickel, cobalt, and manganese and having a nickel content for 60 mol % or more, based on metals (M) excluding lithium, and is in the form of single particles having an average particle diameter (D50) of 1 to 10 ?m, wherein a 100-nm region extending from the surface toward the center of a single particle has crystal structures of a Fd3M and a Fm3m space group, and a phase ratio is 0.2 to 0.7, which is a ratio of a first portion of a maximum straight length of the 100-nm region occupied by the crystal structure of the Fd3M space group to a second portion occupied by the crystal structure of the Fm3m space group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery, the active material including a dopant and having a crystalline structure in which metal oxide layers (MO layers) including metals and oxygen and reversible lithium layers are repeatedly stacked, wherein in a lattice configured by oxygen atoms of the MO layers adjacent to each other, the dopant time of charge, thereby forming a lithium trap and/or lithium dumbbell structure.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery is provided. The positive electrode active material being a lithium cobalt-based oxide includes a doping element M. A lithium cobalt-based oxide particle containing the doping element M in an amount of 3,000 ppm or more, wherein in a bulk portion corresponding to 90% of a core side among the radius from a core of the particle to a surface thereof, the doping element M in the lithium cobalt-based oxide particle is contained at a constant concentration, and in a surface portion from the surface of the particle to 100 nm in a core direction, the doping element M is contained at a concentration equal to or higher than that in the bulk portion and has a concentration in which the concentration thereof is gradient gradually decreased in the core direction from the surface of the particle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode active material precursor for a secondary battery which includes primary particles of Co3O4 or CoOOH, wherein the primary particle contains a doping element in an amount of 3,000 ppm or more, and has an average particle diameter (D50) of 15 ?m or more, and a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery which includes particles of a lithium cobalt-based oxide, wherein the primary particle contains a doping element in an amount of 2,500 ppm or more, and has an average particle diameter (D50) of 15 ?m or more.

Abstract: A method for producing a positive electrode active material, a positive electrode active material produced thereby, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same are provided. The method includes preparing a nickel-manganese-aluminum precursor having an atomic fraction of nickel of 90 atm % or greater in all transition metals, and mixing the nickel-manganese-aluminum precursor, a cobalt raw material, and a lithium raw material and heat treating the mixture.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material, method of making the same, and positive electrode and lithium secondary battery include the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a positive electrode active material in a form of single particles, includes a lithium transition metal oxide having nickel (Ni) in an amount greater than 50 mol % based on a total number of moles of transition metals excluding lithium, wherein a single particle has a region of 50 nm or less from a surface of the single particle along a center direction, and wherein a structure belonging to space group FD3-M and a structure belonging to space group Fm3m are formed in the region, and wherein a generation rate of fine powder having an average particle diameter (D50) of 1 ?m or less is in a range of 5% to 30% when the positive electrode active material is rolled at 650 kgf/cm2.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a first positive electrode active material and a second positive electrode active material, wherein an average particle diameter (D50) of the first positive electrode active material is twice or more than an average particle diameter (D50) of the second positive electrode active material, and the second positive electrode active material has a crystallite size of 200 nm or more.

Abstract: A method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes preparing a positive electrode active material precursor including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and at least one selected from the group consisting of manganese (Mn) and aluminum (Al); and forming a lithium composite transition metal oxide by mixing the positive electrode active material precursor and a lithium source and performing calcination, wherein the positive electrode active material precursor includes nickel (Ni) in an amount of 60 mol % or more out of the entire metal element, and a molar ratio (Li/M) of lithium (Li) of the lithium source to the entire metal element (M) of the positive electrode active material precursor is greater than 1.1.

Abstract: A flexible circuit board is provided. The flexible circuit board includes a base film with an outer lead region defined on either one surface or the other surface and an outer lead provided in the outer lead region and connected to an electronic device, in which the outer lead includes a plurality of first outer leads and a plurality of second outer leads formed to be spaced apart from each other so as to face each other in the outer lead region, and in which the number of the plurality of first outer leads is greater than the number of the plurality of second outer leads.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive electrode material for a secondary battery, the positive electrode material including a first positive electrode active material and a second positive electrode active material, the first positive electrode active material and the second positive electrode active material being single particle types and lithium composite transition metal oxides including nickel, cobalt, and manganese and having a nickel content accounting for 60 mol % or more of total metals except for lithium, wherein the first positive electrode active material has a mean particle diameter (D50) of 3 ?m or less and a molar ratio (Li/M) of lithium to the metals (M) except for lithium of 1.10 to 1.20, and the second positive electrode active material has a mean particle diameter (D50) of greater than 3 ?m and a molar ratio (Li/M) of lithium to the metals (M) except for lithium of 1.00 to 1.13.

Abstract: A lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material is provided. The lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material includes a core portion including a lithium cobalt-based oxide represented by Formula 1 and a shell portion including a lithium cobalt-based oxide represented by Formula 2, wherein the lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material includes 2500 ppm or more, preferably 3000 ppm or more of a doping element M based on the total weight of the positive electrode active material. An inflection point does not appear in a voltage profile measured during charging/discharging a secondary battery including the lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode material which includes a first positive electrode active material, and a second positive electrode active material in the form of a single particle, wherein an amount of lithium impurities on a surface of the second positive electrode active material is 0.14 wt % or less based on a total weight of the second positive electrode active material, and at least one of nickel, cobalt, and manganese included in the second positive electrode active material has a concentration gradient gradually changing from the center of the particle to a surface thereof, a method of preparing the positive electrode material, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode material.

Abstract: A method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes mixing a positive electrode active material precursor, a lithium source material, a first firing additive, a second firing additive, and a third firing additive a to form a mixture, wherein the positive electrode active material precursor contains nickel, cobalt, and manganese and has a nickel content of 60 mol % or more relative to a total molar amount of metals in the positive electrode active material precursor, and performing primary firing of the mixture to form a lithium transition metal oxide, wherein the first firing additive is a lithium-containing compound, the second firing additive is a carbonate ion-containing compound, and the third firing additive is a boron-containing compound.

Abstract: A lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material is provide, which includes sodium and calcium, wherein the total amount of the sodium and calcium is 150 ppm to 500 ppm based on the total weight of the lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material. A method for preparing the lithium cobalt-based positive electrode active material is also provided.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The negative electrode active material for a secondary battery, includes lithium titanium-based composite particles comprising: a lithium titanium oxide represented by LixTiyOz, wherein x, y and z satisfy 0.1?x?4, 1?y?5 and 2?z?12, Zr doped into the lithium titanium oxide; and an aluminum and sulfur containing compound coated on a surface of the lithium titanium oxide. The aluminum and sulfur containing compound is present in an amount of 0.4 mM to 0.9 mM based on 1M lithium titanium oxide.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery, including lithium titanium-based composite particles comprising: a lithium titanium oxide represented by LixTiyOz, wherein x, y and z satisfy 0.1?x?4, 1?y?5 and 2?z?12; Zr doped into the lithium titanium oxide; and an aluminum and sulfur containing compound coated on a surface of the lithium titanium oxide. The lithium titanium-based composite particles include at least one of primary particles or secondary particles formed by agglomeration of the primary particles, and an average particle size of the primary particles of the lithium titanium-based composite particles is in a range of 550 nm to 1.1 ?m.

Abstract: A positive electrode material and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same are provided. The positive electrode material having a bimodal particle size distribution which includes large-diameter particles and small-diameter particles having different average particle diameters (D50), wherein the large-diameter particles are lithium composite transition metal oxide having a nickel content of 80 atm % or more in all transition metals thereof, and the small-diameter particles are a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel, cobalt, and aluminum, having a nickel content of 80 atm % to 85 atm % in all transition metals, and having an atomic ratio of the cobalt to the aluminum (Co/Al) of 1.5 to 5.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a positive electrode for a secondary battery, the method including forming a positive electrode mixture layer including a positive electrode active material on a positive electrode current collector, and forming a metal oxide coating layer on the positive electrode mixture layer by atomic layer deposition, wherein the positive electrode active material includes lithium composite transition metal oxide particles and a boron-containing coating layer formed on the lithium composite transition metal oxide particles, and the lithium composite transition metal oxide particles include nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), wherein the nickel (Ni) is 60 mol % or greater of all metals excluding lithium.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material includes a nickel-based lithium transition metal oxide containing nickel in an amount of 60 mol % or more based on a total number of moles of metals excluding lithium, wherein cobalt is included in an amount of greater than 0 ppm to 6,000 ppm or less on a surface of the nickel-based lithium transition metal oxide. A method of preparing the positive electrode active material, a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which includes the positive electrode active material are also provided.