Electrochemical cells that incorporate a greenhouse gas, including an electrode that includes an electrode active material, an electrolyte including an electrolytic solvent, and a housing that encloses the electrode and electrolyte under a gaseous atmosphere including a greenhouse gas, where the electrolyte is in contact with the electrode, and the electrode active material has a solubility of at least 0.01 M in the electrolytic solvent.

A battery cell, including an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly is formed by stacking in sequence or winding a first electrode plate, a separator, and a second electrode plate. The first electrode plate includes a first current collector and a first active material layer disposed on two sides of the first current collector. The first electrode plate further includes a conductive layer. The first current collector includes a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface. The conductive layer completely covers the first surface and/or the second surface. The first active material layer is disposed on a surface of the conductive layer. This application further provides a battery containing the battery cell and an electronic apparatus with such battery.

The method for manufacturing a positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first step for adding an alkaline solution having a tungsten compound dissolved therein to a lithium-metal composite oxide powder represented by general formula Li.sub.zNi.sub.1-x-yCo.sub.xM.sub.yO.sub.2 (where 0≤x≤0.1, 0≤y≤0.1, and 0.97≤z≤1.20 are satisfied, and M is at least one type of element selected from among Mn, W, Mg, Mo, Nb, Ti, Si, and Al), and mixing same; and a second step for heating the mixture of the alkaline solution and the lithium-metal composite oxide powder at 100-600° C., wherein the amount of the alkaline solution to be added in the first step is 0.1-10 mass % with respect to the amount of the lithium-metal composite oxide powder.

The present disclosure is related to a method for applying a functional compound on sulfur particles by means of an atmospheric pressure plasma discharge including a gas or an activated gas flow resulting from the atmospheric pressure plasma discharge. The coating composition includes an inorganic electrically conductive compound, an electrically conductive carbon compound, an organic precursor compound of a conjugated polymer, a precursor of a hybrid organic-inorganic compound, or a mixture, and the functional compound provides the sulfur particles with an electrically conductive surface.

An electrically conductive hybrid membrane, including a solid membrane substrate including a curable material; and electrically conductive particle disposed on the solid membrane substrate, wherein the solid membrane substrate has an elastic modulus of about 10 MPa to about 1000 MPa, and the electrically conductive particle is exposed on both sides of the solid membrane substrate.

A method for manufacturing an electrochemical device, implementing a process for manufacturing a porous electrode having a porous layer deposited on a substrate, the porous layer having a porosity of between 20% and 60% by volume and pores with an average diameter of less than 50 nm. The method includes providing a substrate and a colloidal suspension including aggregates or agglomerates of monodisperse primary nanoparticles of an active electrode material, having an average primary diameter of between 2 and 60 nm, the aggregates or agglomerates having an average diameter of between 50 nm and 300 nm, then depositing a layer from the colloidal suspension on the substrate, then drying and consolidating the layer to obtain a mesoporous layer, and then depositing a coating of an electronically conductive material on and inside the pores of the layer.

The invention relates to a method for producing an electrode powder mixture for a battery cell. A powdered active material is provided with a powdered first polymer binder by means of electrostatic coating. The invention also relates to a method for producing an electrode of a battery cell.

Various embodiments provide a battery, a bulk energy storage system including the battery, and/or a method of operating the bulk energy storage system including the battery. In various embodiment, the battery may include a first electrode, an electrolyte, and a second electrode, wherein one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises direct reduced iron (“DRI”). In various embodiments, the DRI may be in the form of pellets. In various embodiments, the pellets may comprise at least about 60 wt % iron by elemental mass, based on the total mass of the pellets. In various embodiments, one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises from about 60% to about 90% iron and from about 1% to about 40% of a component comprising one or more of the materials selected from the group of SiO.sub.2, Al.sub.2O.sub.3, MgO, CaO, and TiO.sub.2.

Disclosed are a positive electrode plate and a battery including the positive electrode plate. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector, at least one thermosensitive coating layer, at least one composite fusion layer, and at least one positive electrode active material layer. The thermosensitive coating layer has electrical conductivity at room temperature, and has advantages of increasing a contact area between the active material and the current collector, effectively reducing battery polarization, and the like. When a temperature of the positive electrode plate during use reaches a thermosensitive temperature and higher, thermosensitive polymer microspheres melt to form at least one continuous electron blocking layer, therefore forming a current blockage, and an internal blockage is formed inside the battery, thereby preventing further thermal runaway of a secondary battery, and improving safety performance of the secondary battery.

To provide a positive electrode active material capable of further reducing positive electrode resistance and exhibiting better output characteristics.

A positive electrode active material includes a coating layer formed of a metal composite oxide of Li and one or more metal elements selected from Al, Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, and W on at least a part of a surface of lithium transition metal-containing composite oxide particles, and has d50 of 3.0 to 7.0 μm, a BET specific surface area of 2.0 to 5.0 m.sup.2/g, a tap density of 1.0 to 2.0 g/cm.sup.3, and an oil absorption amount of 30 to 60 ml/100 g, in which the amount of metal elements other than Li contained in the coating layer is 0.1 to 1.5 atom % with respect to the total number of atoms of Ni, Mn, and Co contained in the composite oxide particles.