Abstract: An electrolyte complex for a lithium-sulfur battery, which can improve battery capacity and life characteristic by applying different solid electrolytes to each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode of an electrochemical device, and can reduce the interfacial resistance between the electrolyte and the electrode by integrating the solid electrolyte and the electrode; an electrochemical device including the same; and a method for preparing the same. The electrolyte complex for a lithium-sulfur battery includes a first and a second phase-separated solid electrolytes, wherein the first electrolyte positioned to the positive electrode side and the second electrolyte positioned to the negative electrode side form a layered structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode assembly, which includes a first electrode, an adhesive layer disposed on the first electrode and including a host layer comprising a host and a guest layer comprising a guest, a separator disposed on the adhesive layer, and a second electrode disposed on the separator, a method of manufacturing the same, and a secondary battery including the same.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte membrane and method of preparing, including a plurality of polymer filaments arranged crossed as a 3-dimensional structure in the form of a net of nonwoven fabric-like shape, and a plurality of inorganic solid electrolytes inserted and uniformly distributed in the structure. By this structural feature, a large amount of solid electrolyte particles are uniformly distributed and filled in the electrolyte membrane, contact between the particles is good, and ionic conduction paths are sufficiently provided. Additionally, the durability of the solid electrolyte membrane is improved by the 3-dimensional structure, and the flexibility and strength increase. The nonwoven fabric composite solid electrolyte membrane has an effect in preventing inorganic solid electrolyte particle from being disconnected therefrom.

Abstract: An electrode for an all solid type battery is designed such that fibrous carbon materials serving as a conductor are densely arranged crossed into a 3-dimensional structure in the form of a mesh of a nonwoven fabric-like shape, and an inorganic solid electrolyte and electrode active material particles are impregnated and uniformly dispersed in the structure. By this structural feature, the electrode for an all solid type battery has very good electron conductivity and ionic conductivity.

Abstract: An electrode for a solid state battery is provided. The electrode active material layer of the electrode shows improved mechanical properties, such as elasticity or rigidity, of the electrode layer through the crosslinking of a binder resin. Thus, it is possible to inhibit or reduce the effect of swelling and/or shrinking of the electrode active material during charging/discharging. Therefore, the interfacial adhesion between the electrode active material layer and an electrolyte layer and the interfacial adhesion between the electrode active material layer and a current collector are maintained to a high level to provide a solid state battery having excellent cycle characteristics.

Abstract: An electrode assembly for a solid state battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. In addition, the binder disposed at the interface between the negative electrode and the solid electrolyte layer, the interface between the positive electrode and the solid electrolyte layer and/or at a predetermined depth from the interface is crosslinked to form a three-dimensional network. In other words, in the electrode assembly, the binder contained in the negative electrode and the solid electrolyte layer and/or the binder contained in the positive electrode and the solid electrolyte layer is crosslinked to improve the interfacial binding force between the negative electrode and the solid electrolyte layer and/or between the positive electrode and the solid electrolyte layer, and thus ion conductivity is maintained to a significantly high level.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly; and a case in which the electrode assembly is accommodated, wherein the case comprises a thermal contractible protection layer that is contracted by heat.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a lithium secondary battery which may improve productivity and performance of the lithium secondary battery by visually measuring an actual electrolyte solution impregnation time for an electrode active material, setting an estimated impregnation time of the electrolyte solution for a battery based on a measured result, and reflecting the estimated impregnation time in a production process.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode for an electrochemical device, a method for producing the same, and an electrochemical device including the electrode. The electrode for an electrochemical device includes: a network structure including a cellulose fiber and a conductive material in which the ratio of the length to the thickness (L/D) is 50 or more; and an active material which is dispersed in the network structure.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a gel polymer electrolyte, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electrochemical device including the same. According to the present invention, a gel polymer electrolyte including: a multi-component crosslinked polymer matrix; a dissociable salt; and an organic solvent, wherein a content of the multi-component crosslinked polymer matrix is 1 to 50 wt % and the multi-component crosslinked polymer matrix has a net structure formed by crosslinking at least three different kinds of crosslinkable monomers, each of the crosslinkable monomers including at least two functional groups selected from the group consisting of a carboxylic group, an acrylate group, and a cyano group, a method of manufacturing the same using a thermal crosslinking or photo-crosslinking process, and an electrochemical device including the same, may be provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrochemical element and a method for producing same, the electrochemical element comprising: electrodes comprising a composite of active material and conductive material having a nanofiber structure; and a cellulose nanofiber separator combined with the electrodes. The electrochemical element according to the present invention obviates the need for separate binder and electrode current collector, has a stable interfacial surface due to the physical union of the separator and electrode, can assure superb mechanical and physical properties, and can maintain stable battery performance even against deformations due to a variety of external impact.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling a spent fuel pool having a heat exchanger includes a cooling water pool positioned above the spent fuel pool; a floating device configured to be elevated according to a water level of a cooling water in the spent fuel pool; and an emergency cooling water supply pipe configured to form a path through which the cooling water of the cooling water pool is moved to the spent fuel pool and configured to include a floating valve that opens or closes a flow passage of the cooling water in connection with the elevation of the floating device.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling a spent fuel pool having a heat exchanger includes a cooling water pool positioned above the spent fuel pool; a floating device configured to be elevated according to a water level of a cooling water in the spent fuel pool; and an emergency cooling water supply pipe configured to form a path through which the cooling water of the cooling water pool is moved to the spent fuel pool and configured to include a floating valve that opens or closes a flow passage of the cooling water in connection with the elevation of the floating device.

Abstract: The invention provides new inhibitors of protein glycation, identified from compound libraries by a high throughput screening assay. The anti-glycation agents so identified are characterized by a variety of chemical structures and are useful for the prevention or treatment of age-, diabetes-, and smoking-related complications, including neuropathy, nephropathy, ocular pathologies, or the loss of mechanical properties of collagenous tissues. Among compounds identified as having the anti-glycation activity, of special interest are epinephrine and its analogs, in particular D-epinephrine and its analogs, which are particularly useful for the prevention or treatment of age-, diabetes-, and smoking-related ocular pathologies.