Abstract: The present invention provides an energy storage device having high discharge capacity and high cycling ability. More particularly, the present invention provides Zn/V2O5 battery having cation selective ionomer membrane and free-standing electrode.

Abstract: Batteries that include an electrolyte, having an electrolytic solvent, and a cathode, the cathode including a first cathode active material in contact with a second cathode active material, and where a ratio of the solubility of the first cathode active material in the electrolytic solvent to the solubility of the second cathode active material in the electrolytic solvent is less than 0.5. The batteries can be economically packed and can provide high energy density.

Abstract: Provided are interconnects for interconnecting a set of battery cells, assemblies comprising these interconnects, methods of forming such interconnects, and methods of forming such assemblies. An interconnect includes a conductor comprising two portions electrically isolated from each other. At least one portion may include two contacts for connecting to battery cells and a fuse forming an electrical connection between these two contacts. The interconnect may also include an insulator adhered to the conductor and mechanically supporting the two portions of the conductor. The insulator may include an opening such that the fuse overlaps with this opening, and the opening does not interfere with the operation of the fuse. In some embodiments, the fuse may not directly interface with any other structures. Furthermore, the interconnect may include a temporary substrate adhered to the insulator such that the insulator is disposed between the temporary substrate and the conductor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery. The secondary battery includes a can configured to accommodate an electrode assembly; and a cap assembly bonded to an opening of the can. The cap assembly includes an upper cap provided in the opening and connected to an electrode tab of the electrode assembly and a lower cap configured to bond the upper cap to the opening. The lower cap includes a first bonding part bonded to a bottom surface of the upper cap to support the upper cap and a second bonding part formed on an outer circumferential surface of the first bonding part to fix the upper cap while being bonded to the upper cap.

Abstract: A lithium metal is physically pressed to a silicon wafer having a uniform intaglio or embossed pattern formed thereon in advance, or liquid lithium is applied to the silicon wafer and may then be cooled in order to form a uniform pattern on the surface of the lithium metal.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material containing a negative electrode active material particle; the negative electrode active material particle including a silicon compound shown by SiOx (0.5?x?1.6), and having a peak in a range of 539 to 541 eV in a XANES spectrum obtained by XANES measurement of the negative electrode active material particle. This provides a negative electrode active material that is capable of increasing battery capacity and improving cycle performance when it is used as a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery.

Abstract: A negative electrode includes a negative electrode protecting layer that is disposed so as to cover a negative electrode active material layer formed on at least one surface of a negative electrode core in a thickness direction and that has higher electrical resistance than the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is formed in a region extending from an edge at one end to a boundary 300 ?m away from the edge in a width direction. The second surface is positioned closer than the first surface to the other end. Regarding the negative electrode protecting layer, the average value of the first thickness of a first portion covering the first surface is 1.7 or more times larger than the maximum value of the second thickness of a second portion covering the second surface.

Abstract: A current collector for electrodes according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a polymer film, and a conductive material provided on at least one surface of upper and lower surfaces of the polymer film, wherein the conductive material may have a function of an electrochemical fuse or a function of blocking a short-circuit current.

Abstract: A battery system includes multiple cells arranged in a common cell enclosure that can also be used for a structure and heat transfer fluid conduit. The battery system also includes a first collector plate. The first collector plate has multiple collector tabs that correspond to the multiple cells. Each collector tab is connected to a cathode of a corresponding cell from amongst the multiple cells present in the battery system.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a battery. In one embodiment, a battery includes a first collector plate and a second collector plate arranged in parallel and spaced apart by an internal distance. The battery includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed between the first collector and the second collector. The first electrode and the second electrode have a geometry that improves power and capacity of the battery. The battery further includes a separator disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: An electric stored energy source for a motor vehicle has a housing that defines an inner chamber in which electrochemical components of an energy storage cell are accommodated, and a line extending through the inner chamber and via which a coolant or a heating medium can be guided through the inner chamber.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode for a secondary battery includes preparing an electrode current collector in which a plurality of through-holes are formed; applying a first slurry including an electrode active material, a binder, and a conductive material to at least one surface of the electrode current collector; and applying a second slurry including an electrode active material, a binder, and a conductive material on the first slurry. In manufacturing an electrode including an electrode current collector with a plurality of through-holes, processability may be secured by preventing leakage of a slurry, and thus, a uniform electrode mixture layer may be formed.

Abstract: Single, internally adjustable modular battery systems are provided, for handling power delivery from and to various power systems such as electric vehicles, photovoltaic systems, solar systems, grid-scale battery energy storage systems, home energy storage systems and power walls. Batteries comprise a main fast-charging lithium ion battery (FC), configured to deliver power to the electric vehicle, a supercapacitor-emulating fast-charging lithium ion battery (SCeFC), configured to receive power and deliver power to the FC and/or to the EV and to operate at high rates within a limited operation range of state of charge (SoC), respective module management systems, and a control unit. Both the FC and the SCeFC have anodes based on the same anode active material and the control unit is configured to manage the FC and the SCeFC and manage power delivery to and from the power system(s), to optimize the operation of the FC.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a fibrous carbon characterized in that the average effective fiber length is 1-100 ?m, and the crystallite length (La) measured using X-ray diffraction is 100-500 nm; an electrode mixture layer for a non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary cell, said mixture comprising an electrode active material and a carbon-based electroconductive auxiliary agent containing said fibrous carbon; an electrode for a non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary cell, the electrode comprising a collector and said electrode mixture layer for a non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary cell, the electrode mixture layer being laminated on the collector; and a non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary cell having said electrode for a non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary cell.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a coating system for electrodepositing a battery electrode coating onto a foil substrate, the system comprising a tank structured and arranged to hold an electrodepositable coating composition; a feed roller positioned outside of the tank structured and arranged to feed the foil into the tank; at least one counter electrode positioned inside the tank, the counter electrode in electrical communication with the foil during operation of the system to thereby deposit the battery electrode coating onto the foil; and an in-line foil drier positioned outside the tank structured and arranged to receive the coated foil from the tank. Also disclosed are methods for electrocoating battery electrode coatings onto conductive foil substrates, coated foil substrates, and electrical storage devices comprising the coated foil substrates.

Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery suppressed in heat generation entailed by charging and discharging is provided. A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode collector, a positive electrode active material layer provided at some part of the surface of the positive electrode collector, and including a positive electrode active material, and an insulation layer provided so as to be at the other part of the surface of the positive electrode collector and to be adjacent to the positive electrode active material layer. The insulation layer includes an inorganic filler, LPO, and a binder.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, in which a plurality of unit electrodes and a plurality of separators are alternately laminated, is provided. Each of the unit electrodes is provided by connecting a plurality of electrodes, each electrode being entirely made of a solid electrode mixture, to each other, and the solid electrode mixture including a mixture of an electrode active material with at least one or more of a conductive material and a binder.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an exemplary energy storage device and methods of forming thereof, comprising an exemplary conductive graphene ink on exemplary substrates to form durable, flexible, and facile graphene films and energy storage devices for use with and within a variety of electronics and devices.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a secondary battery, the secondary battery comprises a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator and an electrolyte, the positive electrode plate comprises a positive current collector and a positive film, the positive film is provided on at least one surface of the positive current collector and comprises a positive active material, the negative electrode plate comprises a negative current collector and a negative film, the negative film is provided on at least one surface of the negative current collector and comprises a negative active material, the negative active material comprises graphite, and an average particle diameter of the positive active material represented by D50 and a thickness of the negative film represented by Hn satisfy a relationship: 6?0.06Hn×(4?1/D50)?31. The battery of the present disclosure has the characteristics of excellent dynamics performance and long cycle life at the same time.

Abstract: A method of preparing an electrode for an electrode assembly having a structure in which electrodes are laminated, including: (i) a process of coating an electrode mixture on at least one surface of a metal sheet so that n (n?2) electrode mixture coated layer lines are formed between non-coated portions parallel to a first direction; (ii) a process of rolling the metal sheet sequentially from a first electrode mixture coated layer line to an nth electrode mixture coated layer line using a rolling roller rotated in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; (iii) a process of slitting the rolled metal sheet at least twice in the second direction to prepare electrode plate base materials having n electrode mixture coated layers formed thereon; and (iv) a process of cutting each of the electrode plate base materials in the first direction to obtain n single sheet electrodes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a fuel cell arrangement which has a fuel cell for providing electrical energy in a circuit, at least one fuel cell auxiliary unit, the circuit electrically connected to the fuel cell via a DC-DC converter, and a battery. In this case, it is provided that, in order to place the fuel cell into operation, the battery be electrically connected to the circuit and the fuel cell auxiliary unit be operated with electrical energy drawn from the battery, wherein the battery is electrically disconnected from the circuit, and the DC-DC converter is operated in non-clocked mode in at least one operating mode of the fuel cell arrangement after placement into operation. The invention further relates to a fuel cell arrangement.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an exemplary energy storage device and methods of forming thereof, comprising an exemplary conductive graphene ink on exemplary substrates to form durable, flexible, and facile graphene films and energy storage devices for use with and within a variety of electronics and devices.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming an electrode film mixture can have a first source including a polymer dispersion comprising a liquid and a polymer, a second source including a second component of the electrode film mixture, and a fluidized bed coating apparatus including a first inlet configured to receive from the first source the dispersion, and a second inlet configured to receive from the second source the second component.

Abstract: An electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a protective layer, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The protective layer contains a thermally conductive material. The electrode for the lithium secondary battery maintains uniform heat distribution on a surface of the electrode during charging and discharging, so that lithium dendrites grow uniformly on the surface. Accordingly, the electrode does not cause a problem of an increase in contact area between the electrode and an electrolyte by the non-uniform growth of the lithium dendrites, or a problem of peeling of the protective layer, thereby improving stability and lifetime characteristics when applied to the battery.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium metal powder protected by a substantially continuous layer of a polymer. Such a substantially continuous polymer layer provides improved protection such as compared to typical CO2-passivation.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode for lithium air batteries, a method of manufacturing the positive electrode, and a lithium air battery including the positive electrode, and more particularly to a positive electrode for lithium air batteries, wherein the positive electrode is manufactured through a dry process instead of a conventional wet process and a mixture of a positive electrode active material and a binder is ball-milled under specific conditions, thereby reducing or preventing a swelling phenomenon due to a solvent and increasing the force of coupling between the positive electrode active material and the binder, whereby it is possible to manufacture a high-density electrode and to improve the durability of the electrode, and wherein the lifespan of a lithium air battery is increased when the positive electrode is applied to the battery.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a secondary battery. The negative electrode for the secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode active material integrated with at least a portion of a surface of the negative electrode collector, wherein the negative electrode collector has a plurality of delamination prevention current collection grooves with which the negative electrode active material is integrated, and the negative electrode active material is disposed on an inner surface of each of the delamination prevention current collection grooves so that a space part in which a passivation layer is formed is defined during charging and discharging.

Abstract: A thin film solid state battery configured with barrier regions formed on a flexible substrate member and method. The method includes forming a bottom thin film barrier material overlying and directly contacting a surface region of a substrate. A first current collector region can be formed overlying the bottom barrier material and forming a first cathode material overlying the first current collector region. A first electrolyte can be formed overlying the first cathode material, and a second current collector region can be formed overlying the first anode material. The method also includes forming an intermediary thin film barrier material overlying the second current collector region and forming a top thin film barrier material overlying the second electrochemical cell. The solid state battery can comprise the elements described in the method of fabrication.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution filled between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes: an electrically conductive layer having a surface; and lithium metal pieces arranged spaced from each other on the surface of the electrically conductive layer. There is no lithium metal on an imaginary line extending from a first end to a second end opposite to the first end of the surface of the electrically conductive layer and traversing a space between the lithium metal pieces.

Abstract: A battery is provided which includes a first power generating element, a second power generating element, and a first adhesion layer adhering the first power generating element to the second power generating element. A first positive electrode collector of the first power generating element and a second negative electrode collector of the second power generating element face each other with (i.e., via) the first adhesion layer. Between the first positive electrode collector and the second negative electrode collector, the first adhesion layer is disposed in a region forming a first positive electrode active material layer or a region forming a second negative electrode active material layer, whichever is smaller. The first positive electrode collector and the second negative electrode collector are not in contact with each other in a region in which the first positive electrode active material layer and the second negative electrode active material layer face each other.

Abstract: Some examples include an electrode for an electrochemical cell including a plate portion and a tab portion. The plate portion includes a plate body, a perimeter body edge, and an inset area recessed into the plate body from the perimeter body edge. The inset area is defined by an inset edge. The tab portion extends from the plate portion. The tab portion includes a tab body and tab body edge. The inset edge extends between the perimeter body edge and the tab body edge.

Abstract: Provided is a lithium battery anode electrode comprising multiple particulates of an anode active material, wherein at least a particulate is composed of one or a plurality of particles of an anode active material being encapsulated by a thin layer of inorganic filler-reinforced elastomer having from 0.01% to 50% by weight of an inorganic filler dispersed in an elastomeric matrix material based on the total weight of the inorganic filler-reinforced elastomer, wherein the encapsulating thin layer of inorganic filler-reinforced elastomer has a thickness from 1 nm to 10 ?m, a fully recoverable tensile strain from 2% to 500%, and a lithium ion conductivity from 10?7 to S/cm to 5×10?2 S/cm and the inorganic filler has a lithium intercalation potential from 1.1 V to 4.5 V (preferably 1.2-2.5 V) versus Li/Li+. The anode active material is preferably selected from Si, Ge, Sn, SnO2, SiOx, Co3O4, Mn3O4, etc.

Abstract: An electrochemical device including: a positive electrode current collector; a plurality of positive electrodes disposed on the positive electrode current collector; an electrolyte layer disposed on the plurality of positive electrodes; a negative electrode disposed on the electrolyte layer; and a negative electrode current collector disposed on the negative electrode, wherein the electrolyte layer includes a first electrolyte layer and a second electrolyte layer, and wherein the second electrolyte layer is between the first electrolyte layer and the negative electrode.

Abstract: Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology include a current collector including a polymer film coupled with a plurality of wires of a metal-containing material. The current collector may include a first region and a second region. The first region may be characterized by an extension of the metal-containing material. The polymer film may be contained within the second region of the current collector. Additionally, the plurality of wires may extend from the extension of the metal-containing material along the polymer film.

Abstract: A protection layer is formed on a highly-reactive substantially-pure metal anode to a thickness of between 1 nm and 200 nm, inclusive, using atomic layer deposition (ALD). The ALD protection layer allows the conduction of ions of the metal of the anode therethrough but suppresses electron transport therethrough. The ALD protection layer may also be effective to inhibit passage of air and/or water therethrough. The ALD protection layer can allow more relaxed purity requirements for subsequent battery assembly, electrolyte specifications, and/or cathode gas purity. Fabrication methods for the protection layers, protected metal anodes, and systems and devices incorporating such protected metal anodes are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present invention proposes an electrode thin film and a method for manufacturing the electrode thin film. The method includes: determining a height between a first roller and a substrate and a coating speed for the first roller coating a first metal nanowire suspension liquid onto the substrate based on a suspension property of the first metal nanowire suspension liquid; coating, by using the first roller, the first metal nanowire suspension liquid onto the substrate with the coating speed to form a wetting film on the substrate; and controlling a first temperature of the substrate heating the wetting film based on the suspension property of the first metal nanowire suspension liquid to dry the wetting film as the electrode thin film. The first temperature makes a dewetting speed of the wetting film higher than a drying speed of the wetting film.

Abstract: Provided is a nonaqueous lithium-type power storage element in which a lithium compound is included in positive electrode, wherein energy loss due to voltage decrease under high temperatures and high voltages is reduced, and the high-load charge and discharge cycle characteristics are exceptional.

Abstract: Provided is an anode active material layer for a lithium battery. This layer comprises multiple particulates of an anode active material, wherein at least a particulate is composed of one or a plurality of particles of a high-capacity anode active material being encapsulated by a thin layer of elastomeric material that has a lithium ion conductivity no less than 10?7 S/cm (preferably no less than 10?5 S/cm) at room temperature and an encapsulating shell thickness from 1 nm to 10 ?m, and wherein the high-capacity anode active material (e.g. Si, Ge, Sn, SnO2, Co3O4, etc.) has a specific capacity of lithium storage greater than 372 mAh/g (the theoretical lithium storage limit of graphite).

Abstract: A cell stack device in the present disclosure includes a cell stack including a plurality of arranged cells, and a first manifold configured to fix a first end of each of the cells with a sealing material and supply reactive gas to the cells. The first manifold includes a frame body configured to fix the first end of each of the cells with the sealing material inside the frame body, and a plate body bonded to a first end portion of the frame body and having a rigidity lower than that of the frame body. A module in the present disclosure includes a housing and the cell stack device housed in the housing. Furthermore, a module housing device in the present disclosure includes an external casing, the module in the external casing, and an auxiliary device configured to operate the module in the external casing.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for an adhesive layer of a non-aqueous secondary battery allowing formation of an adhesive layer that can achieve both high process adhesiveness and high blocking resistance in battery members such as an electrode and a separator. The presently disclosed composition for an adhesive layer of a non-aqueous secondary battery includes a particulate polymer A that has a glass-transition temperature of no higher than 20° C. and a volume-average particle diameter of at least 100 nm and less than 450 nm, and a particulate polymer B that has a glass-transition temperature of at least 30° C. and less than 60° C. and a volume-average particle diameter larger than the volume-average particle diameter of the particulate polymer A.

Abstract: A method of producing a powder mass for a lithium battery, the method comprising: (a) Providing a solution containing a sulfonated elastomer dissolved in a solvent or a precursor in a liquid form or dissolved in a solvent; (b) dispersing a plurality of particles of an anode active material in the solution to form a slurry; and (c) dispensing the slurry and removing the solvent and/or polymerizing/curing the precursor to form the powder mass, wherein the powder mass comprises multiple particulates and at least a particulate is composed of one or a plurality of particles of an anode active material being encapsulated by a thin layer of sulfonated elastomer having a thickness from 1 nm to 10 ?m, a fully recoverable tensile strain from 2% to 800%, and a lithium ion conductivity from 10?7 S/cm to 5×10?2 S/cm at room temperature.

Abstract: Provided is a release film to be in contact with a surface of a base member and a surface of an object between the surface of the base member and the surface of the object. The release film includes a crystalline layer and a debond layer in contact with the crystalline layer. The debond layer has pores and includes an amorphous substance soluble in a solvent.

Abstract: Provided is an anode active material layer for a lithium battery. This layer comprises multiple particulates of an anode active material, wherein at least a particulate is composed of one or a plurality of particles of a high-capacity anode active material being encapsulated by a thin layer of elastomeric material that has a lithium ion conductivity no less than 10?7 S/cm (preferably no less than 10?5 S/cm) at room temperature and an encapsulating shell thickness from 1 nm to 10 ?m, and wherein the high-capacity anode active material (e.g. Si, Ge, Sn, SnO2, Co3O4, etc.) has a specific capacity of lithium storage greater than 372 mAh/g (the theoretical lithium storage limit of graphite).

Abstract: An electrochemical device has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, separators, and an electrolyte. The negative electrode has: a negative-electrode collector having a first principal face and a second principal face on the opposite side of the first principal face; a first negative-electrode active-material layer formed on the first principal face; and a second negative-electrode active-material layer which is formed intermittently on the second principal face and whose density of negative-electrode active material is lower than that of the first negative-electrode active-material layer. In the electrolyte, the positive electrode, negative electrode, and separators are immersed. The electrochemical device is such that the first and second negative-electrode active-material layers are pre-doped with lithium ions as a metallic lithium is electrically connected to the second principal face where the second negative-electrode active-material layer is not formed, and then immersed in the electrolyte.

Abstract: A method of making a negative electrode for an electrochemical cell includes applying a fluoropolymer via a deposition process to one or more surface regions of an electroactive material. The electroactive material may be selected from the group consisting of: lithium metal, silicon metal, silicon-containing alloys, and combinations thereof. The fluoropolymer reacts with lithium to form a composite surface layer on the one or more surface regions that comprises an organic matrix material having lithium fluoride particles distributed therein. Electrochemical cells including such negative electrode are also provided.

Abstract: A method for producing an electrode for an energy storage device includes: forming a current collector from a conductive material; forming a primer layer on the current collector; injecting dry powder electrode materials into the primer layer, wherein the dry powder electrode materials injected into the primer layer form an electrode film in electrical contact with the current collector.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery includes a wound electrode assembly including a separator between a first electrode and a second electrode, the first and second electrodes each including uncoated regions and coated regions; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; and a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal respectively coupled to the first and second electrodes and extending from the case, an uncoated region of the first electrode including inner and outer uncoated regions of a terminal end portion located at an outermost side of the electrode assembly, and the second electrode including an outer uncoated region of a terminal end portion facing the inner uncoated region of the first electrode and an additional inner coated region at an opposite side of the outer uncoated region.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for enhancing electron flow within a battery, such as a lead-acid battery. In one embodiment, a battery separator may include a conductive surface or layer upon which electrons may flow. The battery separator may include a fiber mat that includes a plurality of electrically insulative fibers. The battery separator may be positioned between electrodes of the battery to electrically insulate the electrodes. The battery separator may also include a conductive material disposed on at least one surface of the fiber mat. The conductive material may contact an electrode of the battery and may have an electrical conductivity that enables electron flow on the surface of the fiber mat.

Abstract: A lithium ion battery electrode includes an electrode material layer. The lithium ion battery electrode further includes a current collector. The current collector is located on a surface of the electrode material layer. The current collector is a carbon nanotube layer. The carbon nanotube layer consists of a number of carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: A surface-treated cathode active material useful for manufacturing a lithium secondary battery have excellent output characteristics by performing a double coating with metal oxide and an electron and ion conductive polymerized copolymer on a surface of a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery to enhance electrochemical properties and thermal stability of the cathode active material.