The present invention relates to an electrode manufacturing method, an electrode manufactured thereby, and a battery comprising the same, the electrode manufacturing method comprising the steps of: applying an electrode active material onto a collector; and radiating a laser such that the end of an electrode active material layer, which has been obtained by applying the electrode active material, becomes straight, thereby removing the electrode active material.

The present invention is advantageous in that the difference in area between active materials applied to the positive and negative electrodes, respectively, is minimized, thereby increasing the capacity and improving the stability of the battery.

A battery including a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer is provided. The positive electrode layer includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, and a positive electrode-side solid electrolyte layer; the positive electrode active material layer is arranged in contact with the positive electrode current collector in a region smaller than that thereof; the positive electrode-side solid electrolyte layer is arranged in contact with the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode active material layer in the same region as that of the positive electrode current collector; the negative electrode layer has the structure similar to that of the positive electrode layer. Since the positive and negative electrode layers are laminated to each other, the positive electrode active material layer faces the negative electrode active material layer with the positive and negative electrode-side solid electrolyte layers provided therebetween.

Disclosed herein is an improved lithium-silicon battery. The anode of the battery comprises a composite comprising Group14 elements silicon and carbon. This composite comprises silicon in the preferred form for use in the lithium-silicon battery: silicon that is amorphous, nano-sized, and entrained within porous carbon. Compared to batteries found in the prior art, lithium-silicon batteries disclosed herein comprising the composite anode material disclosed herein find superior utility in various applications.

Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery including an electrode assembly including a cathode, an anode, and a separator disposed between the cathode and the anode and an electrolyte, wherein the anode includes a lithium titanium oxide (LTO) as an anode active material, and the lithium secondary battery has a charge cut-off voltage of 3.3 to 4 V and, when the charge cut-off voltage is reached, the anode has a potential of 0.75 to 1.545 V within a range within which a potential of the cathode does not exceed 4.95 V.

The invention relates to a sodium-ion secondary cell comprising a cathode and an anode, wherein the cathode comprises one or more cathode electrode active materials which include at least one layered nickel-containing sodium oxide material, and the anode comprises a layer of anode electrode active material disposed on an anode substrate; where in the layer of anode electrode active material comprises at least one disordered carbon material, and the mass of the layer of anode electrode active material per square metre of the anode substrate is less than 80 gm.sup.−2-; further wherein the ratio of the mass of the cathode electrode active material to the mass of the layer of anode electrode active material is from 0.1 to 10, and wherein the thickness of the layer of anode electrode active material on the anode substrate is less than 100 μm.

An electrochemical including an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a negative electrode plate, a positive electrode plate, and a separator. The negative electrode plate includes a negative current collector. The negative current collector includes a first part and a second part. A first negative active material layer is disposed on one side of the first part. A second negative active material layer and a third negative active material layer are disposed on two sides of the second part respectively. The positive electrode plate includes a positive current collector. The positive current collector includes a third part and a fourth part. A first positive active material layer is disposed on the third part. A second positive active material layer is disposed on the fourth part.

Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a bottomed cylindrical positive electrode casing, and a negative electrode casing which is fixed to an opening of the positive electrode casing through a gasket. The opening of the positive electrode casing is caulked to the negative electrode casing side to seal an accommodation space. A caulking tip end in the opening of the positive electrode casing is disposed in an inward direction of the negative electrode casing than a tip end of the negative electrode casing. A diameter d of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is in a range of 4 mm to 12 mm, a height h1 of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is in a range of 1 mm to 3 mm, a side surface portion of the positive electrode casing is formed in a curved surface shape, a radius of curvature R is set in a range of 0.8 mm to 1.1 mm, and a height h2 of the positive electrode casing is in a range of 65% to 90% with respect to the height h1 of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery.

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode assembly and an electrolyte solution. The electrode assembly is impregnated with at least part of the electrolyte solution. The electrode assembly includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The separator separates the positive electrode and the negative electrode from each other. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material includes graphite. The following relation of a formula (1) is satisfied: “1.60≤NPR/AAR≤2.55”. “NPR” represents a ratio of a negative electrode charging capacity to a positive electrode charging capacity. “AAR” represents a ratio of an effective discharging capacity of the negative electrode to a total of a capacity corresponding to an amount of inactive lithium adhered to the negative electrode and the effective discharging capacity of the negative electrode.

A cathode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a cathode material A which includes central particles of a cathode active material represented by Li.sub.xA.sub.yM.sub.zPO.sub.4 and a carbonaceous film with which surfaces of the central particles are coated and a cathode material B which is represented by Li.sub.xA.sub.yM.sub.zPO.sub.4 and is made of primary particles of a cathode active material having an olivine structure.

A secondary battery including: spirally wound electrode body in which positive electrode and negative electrode are laminated via separator and spirally wound, wherein the positive electrode includes an inner circumference side positive electrode active material layer and an outer circumference side positive electrode active material layer while including a single side active material layer formation region, the ratio A/(A+B) of an area density A (mg/cm.sup.2) of the inner circumference side positive electrode active material layer and an area density B (mg/cm.sup.2) of the outer circumference side positive electrode active material layer, an inner diameter C (mm) of the coil opening portion, and the ratio D/E of a thickness D (μm) of the positive electrode and a thickness E (μm) of the positive electrode collector satisfy the relationship expressed in Formula 1, and a length F (mm) of the single side active material layer formation region satisfies the relationship expressed in Formula 2.