Provided are a member for a sodium-ion secondary battery and a sodium-ion secondary battery both of which are not susceptible to deterioration of charge/discharge cycle characteristics due to charge and discharge. A member 8 for a sodium-ion secondary battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer 2 having sodium-ion conductivity; a metallic sodium layer 6 disposed on one principal surface 2b of the solid electrolyte layer 2 and made of metallic sodium; and a metallic layer 5 provided between the solid electrolyte layer 2 and the metallic sodium layer 6 and made of a metal different from the metallic sodium.

A unit cell includes a separator and an electrode, which are alternately laminated by a predetermined number. The unit cell is configured such that: the unit cell is laminated in the order of a lower separator, any one electrode of an anode or a cathode, an upper separator, and the other one electrode of the anode or the cathode, wherein at least one surface of the electrode and the separator is applied with an adhesive to adhere the electrode and the separator or the lower separator and the upper separator. The adhesive contains an adhesive composition comprising a copolymer and a rosin ester-based additive, the copolymer contains 60.1 to 79.9% by weight of two or more kinds of alkyl (meth)acrylate-based repeating units (A), and 20.1 to 39.9% by weight of (meth)acrylate-based repeating unit (B) having a hydroxyl group at its end.

This nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided with an electrode body that is obtained by alternately laminating a plurality of positive electrodes and a plurality of negative electrodes, with separators being interposed therebetween. Each separator is configured of a porous resin substrate and a porous heat-resistant layer that is formed on one surface of the resin substrate and has a larger surface roughness than the resin substrate. The electrode body comprises: bonding particles that bond a negative electrode and a heat-resistant layer with each other; and bonding particles that bond a positive electrode and a resin substrate with each other. The mass of the bonding particles per unit area in a first interface between the negative electrode and the heat-resistant layer is larger than the mass of the bonding particles per unit area in a second interface between the positive electrode and the resin substrate.

A separator includes a substrate, a first layer on the substrate, the first layer including LiFePO.sub.4 (LFP) particles, and a second layer on the substrate, the second layer including organic particles having a melting point in a range of about 100° C. to about 130° C.

Disclosed is a battery module, which includes a plurality of battery cells stacked on each other, and a plurality of adhesive sheets respectively provided between the plurality of battery cells and configured to generate an adhesion force after the plurality of battery cells are aligned.

A method for manufacturing an electrode assembly according to the present invention comprises: a step (a) of transferring an electrode, in which a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of separators are alternately stacked, to a first position; a step (b) of forming an adhesive layer on both side portions of the separators, which are provided in the electrode assembly disposed at the first position, in a full width direction; a step of (c) of allowing the pair of pressing blocks provided at a second position to move in a direction corresponding to each other, wherein an interval between the pair of pressing blocks is less than a length of each of the separators in a full width direction and is greater than a length of each of the electrodes in a full width direction; a step (d) of allowing both the side portions of the separator to be bent upward while being in contact with the pressing blocks when the electrode assembly disposed at the first position descends to be inserted between the pair of pressing blocks provided at the second position; and a step (e) of allowing both the bent side portions of the separator to be adhered each other by an adhesive layer while overlapping each other when the pair of pressing blocks moves toward the electrode assembly.

A polymer for an electrode protective layer including a polymer (A) including a fluorine-based polymer in which a monomer unit including poly(alkylene oxide) and a monomer unit including a curable functional group (e.g., a thermocurable functional group or a photocurable functional group) are grafted on the fluorine-based polymer, and when preparing an electrode by coating an electrode active material layer using the polymer and curing (e.g., thermally curing or photocuring) the result, excellent lithium ion conductivity is obtained since lithium ion flow is not inhibited, chemical resistance for an electrolyte liquid is high, and voltage stability of a secondary battery may be enhanced by suppressing side reactions with the electrolyte liquid occurring on an electrode active material surface due to properties of a uniform and flexible protective layer.

A system for electrical energy production from chemical reagents in a compartmentalized cell includes: at least two electrodes, comprising at least one anode and at least one cathode; at least one separator, that separates the anodes and the cathodes; and an ionic liquid electrolyte system. The system can be a battery or one or more cells of a battery system. The ionic liquid electrolyte system comprises an ionic liquid solvent; an ether co-solvent, comprising a minority fraction, by weight, of the electrolyte; and a lithium salt. In preferred variations, the anode is a lithium metal anode and the cathode is a metal oxide cathode and the separator is a polyolefin separator.

A unit cell includes an electrode positioned between a first separator and a separator in a stack. A first adhesive is positioned between the electrode and at least one of the first and second separators, and a second adhesive is positioned between the first separator and the second separator. A shear strength of the first adhesive is less than or equal to a shear strength of the second adhesive.

A unit includes an electrode positioned between a first separator and a second separator in a stack. A first adhesive is positioned between the electrode and at least one of the first and second separators, and a second adhesive is positioned between the first separator and the second separator. The first adhesive composition has a degree of dispersion in an electrolyte that is larger than a degree of dispersion of the second adhesive composition in the electrolyte.