Abstract: Provided an electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, the electrode including a current collector and a first active material layer disposed on the current collector and including a first active material, and a second active material layer disposed on the first active material layer and including a second active material, wherein a porosity of the first active material layer is 8% to 12% and a porosity of the second active material layer is 16% to 22%.

Abstract: A novel quinazoline compound having SOS1 inhibitory activity and uses of the quinazoline compound are disclosed. More particularly, the present invention relates to a novel quinazoline derivative compound having inhibitory activity on SOS1 binding to RAS family proteins and/or RAC1, to pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof, and to pharmaceutical compositions containing the quinazoline compound. The novel quinazoline compound has the following chemical formula 1: wherein all the variables have meaning as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A method of preparing a negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the negative electrode, and the method of preparing the negative electrode may include preparing an active material layer on a current collector so that a coated portion in which the active material layer is formed and an uncoated region in which an active material is not formed are alternatively arranged, the active material, wherein the coated portion is formed by coating a first negative active material layer composition having a capillary number of about 0.25 to about 1.50 on the current collector and coating a second negative active material layer composition having a capillary number of about 0.28 to about 1.50 on the first negative active material layer composition.

Abstract: A slot die for manufacturing a rechargeable battery electrode includes a first block with a chamber to accommodate an active material slurry, a second block facing and attached to the first block, a shim between the first and second blocks and including facing end portions, and a slot between the first and second blocks, and between the facing end portions, the slot including a first side defined by the first block, and a second side defined by the second block and facing the first side. Each of the end portions of the shim includes a width adjuster protruding to a second reference point from a first reference point in a width direction by a first adjusting width, extending to a third reference point from the second reference point at a first angle with respect to a discharging direction, and having a first adjusting length in the discharging direction.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are provided. The negative electrode includes a current collector and a negative active material layer including a first active material layer, a second active material layer, and a third active material layer, wherein the first active material layer contacts the current collector and the second active material layer is between the first active material layer and the third active material layer, wherein the first active material layer includes a first active material including a first crystalline carbon, the second active material layer includes a second active material including a silicon-based active material, a second crystalline carbon and a third crystalline carbon, and third active material layer includes a third active material including a fourth crystalline carbon.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The negative electrode includes: a current collector; a first negative active material layer disposed on one side of the current collector and including a first negative active material and a linear conductive material; and a second negative active material layer disposed on one side of the first negative active material layer and including a second negative active material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a negative electrode including a current collector, a first active material layer on the current collector, and a second active material layer on the first active material layer, wherein at least one of the first active material layer and the second active material layer includes a silicon-based active material and a binder, and the binder includes a copolymer (A) and a copolymer (B), the copolymer (A) includes a unit (a-1) derived from a (meth)acrylic acid-based monomer and a unit (a-2) derived from a (meth)acrylonitrile monomer, and the copolymer (B) includes a unit (b-1) derived from an aromatic vinyl-based monomer and a unit (b-2) derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer that is at least one of an unsaturated carboxylic acid alkyl ester monomer, a (meth)acrylic acid-based monomer, an unsaturated carboxylic acid amide monomer, or a conjugated diene monomer, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are provided. The negative electrode includes a current collector and a negative electrode active material layer on the current collector. The negative electrode active material layer includes a first region in contact with the current collector and including a first negative electrode active material, and a second region on the first region and including a second negative electrode active material. Each of the first and second negative electrode active materials has an average particle diameter (D50) of about 9 ?m to about 22 ?m, morphologies that are different from each other, a porosity of the second region is higher than that of the first region, and a porosity ratio of the second region to the first region is from about 110% to about 190%.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The negative electrode includes: a current collector; a first negative active material layer disposed on one side of the current collector and including a first negative active material and a linear conductive material; and a second negative active material layer disposed on one side of the first negative active material layer and including a second negative active material.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a current collector and a negative active material layer on the current collector, wherein the negative active material layer includes a first region adjacent to the current collector and a second region not in contact with the current collector, the negative active material layer includes a carbonaceous material and a Si-based material including Si, and an amount of Si included in the negative active material layer is different in the first region and the second region.

Abstract: A slot die for manufacturing a rechargeable battery electrode includes a first block with a chamber to accommodate an active material slurry, a second block facing and attached to the first block, a shim between the first and second blocks and including facing end portions, and a slot between the first and second blocks, and between the facing end portions, the slot including a first side defined by the first block, and a second side defined by the second block and facing the first side. Each of the end portions of the shim includes a width adjuster protruding to a second reference point from a first reference point in a width direction by a first adjusting width, extending to a third reference point from the second reference point at a first angle with respect to a discharging direction, and having a first adjusting length in the discharging direction.

Abstract: A slot coating apparatus having an improved coating bead region is disclosed. An embodiment of the invention provides a slot coating apparatus configured to coat a coating liquid containing a high concentration of particles over a substrate, where the slot coating apparatus includes: a first slot die that is arranged at a downstream side of the coating liquid; a second slot die that is arranged at an upstream side of the coating liquid and is positioned facing the first slot die; a coating bead cover that extends from one side of the first slot die along a movement direction of the substrate; and a pressure adjustment device that is disposed at the second slot die side and is configured to form a pressure gradient between the downstream and the upstream.

Abstract: A slot coating apparatus having an improved coating bead region is disclosed. An embodiment of the invention provides a slot coating apparatus configured to coat a coating liquid containing a high concentration of particles over a substrate, where the slot coating apparatus includes: a first slot die that is arranged at a downstream side of the coating liquid; a second slot die that is arranged at an upstream side of the coating liquid and is positioned facing the first slot die; a coating bead cover that extends from one side of the first slot die along a movement direction of the substrate; and a pressure adjustment device that is disposed at the second slot die side and is configured to form a pressure gradient between the downstream and the upstream.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a preparation process for a thin film composite (TFC) membrane (hereinafter TFC membrane), and provides a method for the preparation of a membrane through a one-step process using a dual (double layer)-slot coating technique. In the dual (double layer)-slot coating process according to the present invention, a TFC membrane can be prepared by: forming a double-solution layer through a one-step process of performing simultaneous applying/contact of two immiscible solutions, in which two kinds of reactive organic monomers are dissolved, on a porous support; and synthesizing a selective layer through a crosslinking reaction between the organic monomers at an interface of the double layer.