Abstract: Particles of active electrode material for a lithium-ion cell are suspended in an atmospheric plasma-activated gas stream and deposited on a surface of a metal current collector foil having a surface film of an oxide of the metal. The metal oxide film-containing surface of the current collector is pre-coated with a thin layer of an electrically conductive organic polymer composition that serves as a bonding surface for the plasma-applied particles of electrode material. For example, a non-conductive polymer (such as polyvinylidene difluoride) may be filled with carbon particles or copper particles. The polymer layer is typically only a few micrometers in thickness and composed to be compatible with the plasma-applied electrode material particles and to conduct electrons between the oxide film-coated, metal current collector and the deposited electrode layer.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for making lithium iron phosphate are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a raw material system to provide a raw material mixed solution of raw materials of a hydrothermal reaction or a solvothermal reaction; a tubular reaction device to make the raw material mixed solution in a plug flowing and reacting state to obtain a reacted material; and a kettle reaction device to make the reacted material in a complete mixing and reacting state to obtain a product. The method comprises providing a raw material mixed solution of raw materials of a hydrothermal reaction or a solvothermal reaction; making the raw material mixed solution in a plug flowing and reacting state to obtain a reacted material; and making the reacted material in a complete mixing and reacting state. The lithium iron phosphate can be continuously produced by the apparatus and method.

Abstract: There are provided a lithium-containing garnet crystal high in density and ionic conductivity, and an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery using the lithium-containing garnet crystal. The lithium-containing garnet crystal has a chemical composition represented by Li7-xLa3Zr2-xTaxO12 (0.2?x?1), and has a relative density of 99% or higher, belongs to a cubic system, and has a garnet-related structure. The lithium-containing garnet crystal has a lithium ion conductivity of 1.0×10?3 S/cm or higher. Further, this solid electrolyte material has a lattice constant a of 1.28 nm?a?1.30 nm, and lithium ions occupy 96h-sites in the crystal structure. The all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery has a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a solid electrolyte, and the solid electrolyte is constituted of the lithium-containing garnet crystal according to the present invention.

Abstract: A positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mix layer, formed on the current collector, containing a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material mainly contains a lithium transition metal oxide in which the molar ratio of nickel (Ni) to a transition metal component is 20% or more. The positive electrode mix layer contains a plurality of pores and has a first peak of a logarithmic differential pore volume distribution (dV/dlogD) that appears in the range where the pore diameter D is less than 1 ?m and a second peak of the logarithmic differential pore volume distribution (dV/dlogD) that appears in the range where the pore diameter D is 1 ?m or more in a pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry. According to this configuration, a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent output characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: Provided are nickel manganese composite hydroxide particles that are a precursor for forming cathode active material comprising lithium nickel manganese composite oxide having hollow structure of particles having a small and uniform particle size for obtaining a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having high capacity, high output and good cyclability. When obtaining the nickel manganese composite hydroxide particles from a crystallization reaction, an aqueous solution for nucleation, which includes at least a metallic compound that contains nickel and a metallic compound that contains manganese, and does not include a complex ion formation agent that forms complex ions with nickel, manganese and cobalt, is controlled so that the temperature of the solution is 60° C. or greater, and so that the pH value that is measured at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. is 11.5 to 13.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a nonaqueous secondary battery including an active material layer which has sufficient electron conductivity with a low ratio of a conductive additive is provided. A positive electrode for a nonaqueous secondary battery including an active material layer which is highly filled with an active material, id est, including the active material and a low ratio of a conductive additive. The active material layer includes a plurality of particles of an active material with a layered rock salt structure, graphene that is in surface contact with the plurality of particles of the active material, and a binder.

Abstract: The initial charge/discharge efficiency and cycle characteristics of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that contains a silicon material as a negative-electrode active material are improved. A negative-electrode active material particle (10) according to an embodiment contains a base particle (13), which includes a lithium silicate phase (11) represented by Li2zSiO(2+z) {0<z<2} and silicon particles (12) dispersed in the lithium silicate phase (11). The symmetry determined by an image analysis of a backscattered electron image of a cross section of the base particle (13) is 1.5 or less. The symmetry refers to the ratio (b/a) of the half width at half maximum b of a peak on the high-gray-scale side to the half width at half maximum a of the peak on the low-gray-scale side in a histogram of color distinction based on 256 gray levels for each pixel of the backscattered electron image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode active material prepared using a preparation method including mixing lithium complex metal oxide particles with a nanosol of a ceramic-based ion conductor and heat treating the resultant to form a coating layer including the ceramic-based ion conductor on the lithium complex metal oxide particles, thereby forming a coating layer including a ceramic-based ion conductor to a uniform thickness on a lithium complex metal oxide particle surface, and as a result, capable of minimizing capacity decline and enhancing a lifespan property when used in a secondary battery, a method for preparing the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a precursor manufacturing a lithium rich cathode active material and a Lithium rich cathode active material using the same, more specifically relates to a novel precursor for manufacturing a lithium rich cathode active material of which capacity properties and cycle life characteristics are considerably improved by solving a problem of conventional lithium rich cathode active material, and a Lithium rich cathode active material using the same.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a negative electrode for an electric storage device, the method comprising the steps of preparing a negative electrode composition comprising a negative electrode active material that reversibly carries a sodium ion, metal sodium, and a liquid dispersion medium for dispersing them; allowing a negative electrode current collector to hold the negative electrode composition; evaporating at least part of the liquid dispersion medium from the negative electrode composition held by the negative electrode current collector, thereby giving a negative electrode precursor comprising the negative electrode active material, the metal sodium, and the negative electrode current collector; and bringing the negative electrode precursor into contact with an electrolyte having sodium ion conductivity, thereby doping the negative electrode active material with sodium eluted from the metal sodium.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte including Li, Al, P, O, and N, wherein the solid electrolyte has a P2O7 structure.

Abstract: A process for preparing a metal oxide-containing powder that comprises conducting spray pyrolysis that comprises aerosolizing a slurry that comprises solid-phase particles in a liquid that comprises at least one precursor compound, which comprises one or more metallic elements of at least one metal oxide, to form droplets of said slurry, and calcining the droplets to at least partially decompose the at least one precursor compound and form the metal oxide-containing powder having a non-hollow morphology.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode material, for a lithium battery, which is capable of achieving a high-energy density and a high output and continuing its properties for many years, a method of producing the electrode material, and the lithium battery. The electrode material for use in positive and negative electrodes of a lithium battery is formed as a complex by combining a carbon-based conductive material and an electrode active material with each other. The carbon-based conductive material of the electrode material is subjected to hydrophilic treatment by using a gas containing fluorine gas. The electrode material is formed as the complex by calcining a mixture of the carbon-based conductive material subjected to the hydrophilic treatment and the electrode active material in the presence of fluororesin.

Abstract: Provided is a nickel-containing composite hydroxide that is a precursor of a positive-electrode active material with which a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery having a low irreversible capacity and a high energy density can be configured. An aqueous alkaline aqueous solution and a complexing agent are added to an mixed aqueous solution including at least nickel and cobalt to regulate the pH (measured at a reference liquid temperature of 25° C.) of this mixed aqueous solution to 11.0 to 13.0, the ammonium concentration to 4 to 15 g/L, and the reaction temperature to 20° C. to 45° C. Using stirring blades having an inclination angle of 20° to 60° with respect to a horizontal plane, the mixture is stirred to conduct a crystallization reaction under such conditions that when the nickel-containing composite hydroxide to be obtained is roasted in air at 800° C. for 2 hours, the roasted composite hydroxide has a BET value of 12 to 50 m2/g.

Abstract: A cathode active material with high durability and a lithium ion secondary battery. The cathode active material is a cathode active material represented by a general formula Li(1+a)NixCoyMnzWtO2 (?0.05?a?0.2, x=1?y?z?t, 0?y<1, 0?t<1, 0<t?0.03), wherein the cathode active material satisfies the following formula (1): ?1/t1?0.92??(1) where t1 is an element concentration average of insides and grain boundaries of primary particles of a W element, and ?1 is an element concentration standard deviation of the insides and grain boundaries of the primary particles of the W element.

Abstract: A method of producing a nickel-cobalt composite hydroxide includes: preparing a first solution containing nickel ions and cobalt ions; preparing a second solution containing tungsten ions and having a pH of 10 or more; preparing a third solution containing a complex ion-forming factor; preparing a liquid medium having a pH in a range of 10 to 13.5; supplying the first solution, the second solution, and the third solution separately and simultaneously to the liquid medium to obtain a reacted solution having a pH in a range of 10 to 13.5; and obtaining the nickel-cobalt composite hydroxide containing nickel, cobalt, and tungsten from the reacted solution.

Abstract: Provided are a positive electrode active material capable of suppressing the reduction in capacity of a battery and the generation of gas during storage at high temperature in a charged state and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the positive electrode active material. A positive electrode active material particle (20) includes a lithium transition metal oxide particle (21) containing a halogen atom and rare-earth compound particles (22) attached to the surface of the lithium transition metal oxide particle (21). The amount of the halogen atom present on the surface of the lithium transition metal oxide particle (21) is 5 mass percent or less of the total amount of the halogen atom contained in the lithium transition metal oxide particle (21). A rare-earth element making up the rare-earth compound particles (22) is one other than yttrium and scandium.

Abstract: A polymer compound for use as a binder for a negative electrode of an electrical storage device is formed by condensing polyacrylic acid and a multifunctional amine represented by the following formula (1), in which Y represents a straight chain alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a phenylene group, or an oxygen atom, and R1 and R2 each independently represent one or more hydrogen atoms, methyl groups, ethyl groups, trifluoromethyl groups, or methoxy groups.

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: An electrode for an energy storage device includes carbon black particles having (a) a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area ranging from 70 to 120 m2/g; (b) an oil absorption number (OAN) ranging from 180 to 310 mL/100 g; (c) a surface energy less than or equal to 15 mJ/m2; and (d) either an La crystallite size less than or equal to 29 ?, or a primary particle size less than or equal to 24 nm.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium metal battery, the negative electrode including: a lithium metal electrode comprising lithium metal or a lithium metal alloy; and a protective layer on at least a portion of the lithium metal electrode, wherein the protective layer has a Young's modulus of about 106 Pascals or greater, wherein the protective layer includes at least one first particle, wherein the first particle includes an organic particle, an inorganic particle, an organic-inorganic particle, or a combination thereof, and wherein the first particle has a particle size of greater than 1 micrometer to about 100 micrometers, and a crosslinked material comprising a polymerizable oligomer, which is disposed between first particles of the at least one first particle.

Abstract: A battery plate assembly for a lead-acid battery is disclosed. The assembly includes a plates of opposing polarity each formed by an electrically conductive grid body having opposed top and bottom frame elements and opposed first and second side frame elements, the top frame element having a lug and an opposing enlarged conductive section extending toward the bottom frame element; a plurality of interconnecting electrically conductive grid elements defining a grid pattern defining a plurality of open areas, the grid elements including a plurality of radially extending vertical grid wire elements connected to the top frame element, and a plurality of horizontally extending grid wire elements, the grid body having an active material provided thereon. A highly absorbent separator is wrapped around at least a portion of the plate of a first polarity and extends to opposing plate faces. An electrolyte is provided, wherein substantially all of the electrolyte is absorbed by the separator or active material.

Abstract: A separator plate for an electrochemical system has two metal individual plates. The plates have passage openings for operating media and possibly coolant, and distribution structures. The distribution structures are formed in the metal individual plates and which each communicate with at least two of the passage openings. A peripherally extending sealing structure is formed in each of the metal individual plates at least peripherally around the electrochemically active region and at a distance therefrom and/or peripherally around at least one of the passage openings and at a distance from the edge thereof. The cross-section of the sealing structure has a bead roof, two bead flanks, and at least in some segments, two bead feet. At least in the region of the bead roof of the sealing structure at least in some segments, the sealing structure extends sinuously with at least two wave periods having convex and concave segments.

Abstract: A fuel cell system in a vehicle has a cathode and an anode. A compressor has an inlet and an outlet, the outlet being configured to outlet a compressed air from the compressor. A bypass line is configured to return the compressed air from the outlet to the inlet such that the air returns to the compressor in a loop. A valve is located downstream of the compressor and is operable in a plurality of modes. In a first mode, the valve is configured to block the air from the cathode and return the air via the bypass line. In a second mode, the valve is configured to direct at least some of the air to the cathode. The valve can also be configured to operate in a third mode in which the air is sent to the cathode without going through the bypass line.

Abstract: A method for performing one or more proactive remedial actions to prevent anode flow-field flooding in an anode side of a fuel cell stack at low stack current density. The method includes identifying one or more trigger conditions that could cause the anode flow-field to flood with water, and performing the one or more proactive remedial actions in response to the identified trigger conditions that removes water from the anode side flow-field prior to the anode flooding occurring.

Abstract: A fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell having an anode flow path extending through the fuel cell between an anode inlet and an anode outlet, and a cathode flow path extending through the fuel cell between a cathode inlet and a cathode outlet. An anode purge valve is coupled to the anode outlet and has an outlet coupled to the cathode inlet. A purge valve controller is configured to effect a purge cycle by opening and closing the anode purge valve and to monitor a fuel cell voltage profile during the purge cycle to determine an operational state of the anode purge valve. A fuel cell voltage drop during a period following a command signal instructing opening of the anode purge valve is used to indicate successful start of a purge cycle. A fuel cell voltage rise during a period following a command signal instructing closing of the anode purge valve is used to indicate a successful end to a purge cycle.

Abstract: Provided is an incorporated device that incorporates therein an electrolytic cell and a power control device that is capable of suppressing temperature rise in the electrolytic cell to thereby suppress a reduction in the life of electrodes, and a method for controlling an incorporated device. The incorporated device incorporates therein an electrolytic cell and a power control device that is capable of suppressing temperature rise in the electrolytic cell to thereby suppress a reduction in the life of electrodes.

Abstract: A state determination device for a fuel cell for generating power upon receiving the supply of anode gas and cathode gas, comprising: an internal impedance measurement unit configured to measure an internal impedance of the fuel cell on the basis of an alternating-current signal of a predetermined frequency output from the fuel cell; and an anode reaction resistance estimation/calculation unit configured to calculate an estimation value of a reaction resistance of an anode electrode of the fuel cell on the basis of a measurement value of the internal impedance, wherein: the predetermined frequency is selected such that a difference between the estimation value of the reaction resistance of the anode electrode during hydrogen starvation and the estimation value of the reaction resistance of the anode electrode during oxygen starvation is not smaller than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling an ion-exchange-membrane type fuel-cell stack installed in a system that includes a cooling circuit and a cooling pump for circulating coolant liquid in the cooling circuit. The method includes, in a start-up phase of starting up the fuel-cell stack, determining an internal temperature of the fuel-cell stack; measuring a temperature in the cooling circuit; applying a start-up current to the fuel-cell stack; and, in parallel: controlling the cooling pump to operate in a pulsed mode when the internal temperature of the fuel-cell stack is above a first predetermined threshold and the temperature of the cooling circuit is below a second predetermined threshold, and controlling the cooling pump to operate in a continuous mode when the temperature in the cooling circuit rises above the second predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of cell groups and a controller wherein each cell group comprises a plurality of fuel cells and a group sensor which measures one or more electrical characteristics of the respective cell group. The controller comprises one or more processors and memory and is communicatively coupled to each group sensor. The one or more processors execute machine readable instructions to compare a measured electrical characteristic of each cell group to one or more thresholds stored in memory, and indicate the need for diagnostics of the fuel cell stack when the comparison indicates a non-systemic event.

Abstract: A fuel cell device is prepared by dispensing and drying electrode and ceramic pastes around two pluralities of removable physical structures to form electrode layers having constant width and a shape that conforms lengthwise to a curvature of the physical structures. An electrolyte ceramic layer is positioned between electrode layers, forming an active cell portion where anode is in opposing relation to cathode with electrolyte therebetween, and passive cell portions where ceramic is adjacent the active cell portion. The layers are laminated, the physical structures pulled out, and the lamination sintered to form an active cell with active passages in anodes and cathodes and passive support structure with passive passages in ceramic. End portions of at least one of the two pluralities of physical structures are curved away from the same end portion of the other of the two pluralities resulting in a split end in the fuel cell device.

Abstract: Provided are a battery cell that can be produced efficiently. A frame body of each cell frame of a battery cell includes an inner peripheral recessed portion formed by reducing a thickness of a peripheral portion that surrounds an entire perimeter of the penetrating window so that the peripheral portion has a smaller thickness than other portions of the frame body. A bipolar plate of the battery cell includes an outer peripheral engaging portion that engages with the inner peripheral recessed portion, the outer peripheral engaging portion being a portion having a particular width and extending throughout an entire outer periphery of the bipolar plate.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack, includes a plurality of fuel cells. Each fuel cell includes a shell, an anode and a cathode mounted in the shell. A liquid storage chamber used for storing electrolyte and a communicating part used for communicating the liquid storage chamber are provided in the shell of each fuel cell. The liquid storage chambers of every two adjacent fuel cells communicate by the communicating part. The liquid storage chambers of every two adjacent fuel cells communicate through the communicating part, so that the electrolyte of each fuel cell can cross flow each other to make the electrolyte of each unit highly consistent. Therefore, the performance parameters of each fuel cell in the same fuel cell stack are basically the same, rendering the working performance of fuel cell stack improved. The present invention also relates to a fuel cell and a shell.

Abstract: A battery includes a case, at least one of a first battery cell and a second battery cell disposed in the case, and a graphite sheet disposed at at least one of a position between the case and the first battery cell and a position between the first battery cell and the second battery cell. The graphite sheet has a terminal portion for taking out an electrical signal.

Abstract: An electrode for a battery cell, including an active material which contains silicon and which contains a first polymer which is ionically conductive. The active material contains in this case a copolymer, which includes the first polymer and a second polymer, the second polymer being electrically conductive. The A battery cell which includes at least one electrode is also described.

Abstract: A lithium battery includes a positive electrode designed as a hollow cylinder and defines a cavity, a negative electrode arranged in the cavity, a separator, a liquid electrolyte, a first current collector for the negative electrode, a second current collector for the positive electrode, an at least two-part housing that encloses an interior space in which the positive electrode together with the negative electrode arranged in the cavity and the separator are arranged, wherein a pin is provided as a first current collector inside the housing, a part of the housing serves as a second current collector, the pin has a first, terminal section embedded in the negative electrode and in direct contact with the negative electrode, and the pin has a second section not in direct contact with the negative electrode, and an insulator element that protects the second section at least partially against direct contact with the electrolyte.

Abstract: Provided are negative electrode assemblies containing lithium sulfide anolyte layers, electrochemical cells including these assemblies, and methods of forming thereof. An anolyte layer may be disposed over a metal layer of a current collector and may be used to separate the current collector from the rest of the electrolyte. The metal layer may include copper or any other suitable metal that forms in situ a metal sulfide during fabrication of the electrode assembly. Specifically, a sulfur containing layer, such as a solid electrolyte, is formed on the metal layer. Sulfur from this layer reacts with the metal of the current collector and forms a metal sulfide layer. When lithium is later added to the metal sulfide layer, a lithium sulfide anolyte layer is formed while the metal layer is recovered. Most, if not all operations may, be performed in situ during fabrication of electrochemical cells.

Abstract: An electrolytic solution including a heteroelement-containing organic solvent at a mole ratio of not greater than 1.5 relative to a metal salt, the heteroelement-containing organic solvent containing a linear carbonate represented by general formula (1) below, the metal salt being a metal salt whose cation is an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or aluminum and whose anion has a chemical structure represented by general formula (2) below.

Abstract: A polymer gel electrolyte containing at least a lithium salt and an aprotic solvent, in which an amorphous polymer layer is formed on the surface of an electrode active material.

Abstract: There is provided a non-aqueous electrolyte solution enabling fabrication of a non-aqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery which achieves suppressed gas generation when used under high temperature environment and the improved residual capacity of the battery, and the improved cycle characteristic thereof, and further, is excellent in discharge load characteristic (dischargeable at high rate), and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery using the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. There is provided a non-aqueous electrolyte solution used in a non-aqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery including a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing a metal ion and a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing a metal ion, which solution contains a bismaleimide compound having a specific structure, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery using the solution.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery (30) which includes: a positive electrode (1); a negative electrode (2); a non-aqueous electrolyte containing a non-aqueous solvent; an outer package (5, 7, 19) receiving the positive electrode (1), the negative electrode (2), and the non-aqueous electrolyte; and a current interrupt valve (14) which interrupts a current in response to an increase in pressure inside the outer package (5, 7, 19). The positive electrode (1) contains a carbonate compound, the non-aqueous solvent contains a fluorinated cyclic carbonate and a fluorinated chain ester, and the total content of the fluorinated cyclic carbonate and the fluorinated chain ester is with respect to the total volume of the non-aqueous solvent, 50 percent by volume or more.

Abstract: Power storage system includes battery containing an electrolytic solution, and ECU that controls permission and prohibition of charge/discharge of battery based on inside temperature of battery. ECU sets determination temperature equal to or higher than freezing point of the electrolytic solution and determination temperature higher than determination temperature. ECU prohibits charge/discharge of battery when inside temperature falls below determination temperature while the electrolytic solution is in a liquid state, and cancels the prohibition of charge/discharge of battery when the electrolytic solution turns into the liquid state from a state in which the electrolytic solution is at least partially solidified, and when the temperature of battery exceeds determination temperature.

Abstract: Artifacts from the presence of a reference electrode in a thin-film cell configuration can be minimized or eliminated by providing the surface of a reference electrode with a specified surface resistivity. Theoretical considerations are set forth that show that for a given wire size, there is a theoretical surface resistance (or resistivity) that negates all artifacts from the presence of the reference wire. The theory and the experimental results hold for a electrochemical cell in a thin-film configuration.

Abstract: The invention relates to a galvanic cell (2) comprising a housing (4) which is equipped with at least one cell coil or a cell stack and comprising a sensor (16) for detecting the pressure of the galvanic cell (2). The housing (4) has a recess which is formed from a through-opening between an interior and an exterior of the cell (2), and the sensor (16) is arranged outside of the cell (2) so as to be secured directly or indirectly to the cell. The sensor (16), in particular a micro electromechanical system, is in contact with the interior of the galvanic cell (2) via the recess. The invention additionally relates to a method for producing such a galvanic cell (2).

Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and method for identifying a battery are generally described. In some embodiments, the battery identification system comprises a battery with a portion of exposed can and electrodes configured to measure an electrical property of the battery. In some embodiments, the measured electrical property is the voltage between the can and a first terminal of the battery. In some embodiments, a battery is identified based on an identification mark such as a ringed barcode or two-dimensional barcode.

Abstract: Battery packs and SOC monitoring systems are disclosed. The battery pack may include first and second adjacent battery cells and a strain gauge positioned between the first and second battery cells. A stress concentrator may be positioned between the strain gauge and one of the first and second battery cells. The stress concentrator may have a first surface contacting the strain gauge and a second surface opposite the first surface, and an area of first surface may be no greater than an area of the second surface. There may be three or more adjacent battery cells and two or more strain gauges and stress concentrators. A controller may be in communication with the strain gauge(s) and configured to receive strain data therefrom. The strain data may be used to determine a state of charge (SOC) and/or a state of health (SOH) of the battery cells or pack.

Abstract: Lithium metal oxides may be regenerated under ambient conditions from materials recovered from partially or fully depleted lithium-ion batteries. Recovered lithium and metal materials may be reduced to nanoparticles and recombined to produce regenerated lithium metal oxides. The regenerated lithium metal oxides may be used to produce rechargeable lithium ion batteries.

Abstract: The present invention serves to reduce the costs associated with the overall life cycle of storage batteries by performing support so that a plurality of batteries are transferred between and used at a plurality of facilities. This storage battery transfer support device comprises: a collection unit that collects battery information representing the status of each battery used at a plurality of facilities; a battery information storage unit that stores the battery information collected by the collection unit; and a deterioration prediction unit that, on the basis of the battery information stored in the battery information storage unit, predicts deterioration of storage batteries that have been transferred between and used at a plurality of facilities.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a thermally conductive plate that can be cooled or heated, and an array of electrochemical cells. The cells include a stacked or rolled arrangement of electrode plates, and a current collector disposed in the battery cell that forms an electrical connection with the electrode plates and provides a thermal conduction pathway for conducting heat from the electrode plates to the thermally conductive plate.

Abstract: A battery assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a battery cell, a cooling device extending at least partially through the battery cell, and a coolant manifold connected to the cooling device.