The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising a lithium salt; an organic solvent; and a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, wherein the invention can control moisture in the lithium secondary battery in which the non-aqueous electrolyte is used, suppress by-product formation according to moisture control, and improve the durability of the solid electrolyte layer, thereby improving the durability thereof,

##STR00001## wherein L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 are each independently a single bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and R.sub.1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Disclosed herein is a composite anode for a lithium secondary battery and a method of manufacturing the same. The composite anode for a lithium secondary battery where a lithium metal or a lithium metal composite is uniformly distributed and located may be manufactured using a simple pulse-electrodepositing method while minimizing an amount of lithium to be used. Moreover, a dendrite growth of lithium may be suppressed during charging because the lithium metal or the lithium metal composite is uniformly located on the porous conductor.

An organic-electrolyte lithium-oxygen battery with a full-enclosed structure and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. In the present disclosure, a lithium-oxygen battery unit is enclosed in a shell containing pure oxygen, and the reactant oxygen is recycled without additional supply. Among them, a part of oxygen is stored in the form of lithium peroxide by pre-discharging. When in use, a charging is firstly performed to decompose the lithium peroxide to release the fixed oxygen.

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode assembly and an electrolyte solution. The electrode assembly includes a laminated assembly. The laminated assembly includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator. The separator separates the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate from each other. The separator includes a porous resin layer. The porous resin layer includes a polyolefin-based material. The negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer includes negative electrode active material particles. The negative electrode active material layer is in direct contact with the porous resin layer. The negative electrode active material layer has a puncture resistance of more than or equal to 0.60 N/mm.

A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an exterior package, an electrode assembly, and an electrolyte solution. In a cross section orthogonal to a winding axis of the laminated assembly, the electrode assembly has a contour line having a corner-rounded rectangular shape. The contour line consists of a first arc-shaped portion, a straight line portion, and a second arc-shaped portion. The contour line has a height ratio (R.sub.1=H.sub.0/H.sub.1) of 1.20 to 1.35. H.sub.0 represents a distance between two points most distant from each other on the contour line. H.sub.1 represents an average length of the two line segments. The separator includes a first main surface and a second main surface. The first main surface is in contact with the negative electrode plate. A first dynamic coefficient of friction between the first main surface and the negative electrode plate is 0.52 to 0.66.

The present disclosure provides a lithium ion secondary battery, a battery core, a negative electrode plate and an apparatus containing the lithium ion secondary battery. The lithium ion secondary battery includes a battery core and an electrolytic solution, the battery core including a positive electrode plate comprising a positive current collector and a positive active material layer, a separator, and a negative electrode plate comprising a negative current collector and a negative active material layer, wherein the positive current collector and/or the negative current collector are a composite current collector, the composite current collector comprises a polymer-based support layer and a conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer, and the composite current collector has a thermal conductivity in a range of 0.01 W/(m.Math.K) to 10 W/(m.Math.K), preferably in a range of 0.1 W/(m.Math.K) to 2 W/(m.Math.K).

A sulfur-carbon composite including a porous carbon material; and sulfur present in at least a part of pores of the porous carbon material and on an outer surface of the porous carbon material, wherein an inner surface and the outer surface of the porous carbon material are doped with a carbonate compound. Also, a positive electrode and a secondary battery including the same. Further, a method of preparing a sulfur-carbon composite and a method of preparing a positive electrode.

The invention relates to electrochemical current sources, more particularly to metal-air current sources, and even more particularly to lithium-air current sources and their electrodes. A cathode comprises a base made of a porous electrically conducting material that is permeable to molecular oxygen, the working surface of which has a copolymer applied thereto, which is produced by the copolymerization of a monomeric transition metal coordination complex having a Schiff base and a thiophene group monomer. The monomeric transition metal coordination complex having a Schiff base can be, for example, a compound of the [M(R,R′-Salen)], [M(R,R′-Saltmen)] or [M(R,R′-Salphen)] type, and the thiophene group monomer can be a compound selected from a thiophene group consisting of 3-alkylthiophenes, 3,4-dialkylthiophenes, 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene or combinations thereof. A current source comprises the described cathode and an anode made from an active metal, in particular lithium, wherein the cathode and the anode are separated by an electrolyte containing ions of the metal from which the anode is made. It has been established that in this system, the copolymer exhibits the properties of an effective catalyst. The technical result is an increase in the specific energy, specific power and number of charge and discharge cycles of a metal-air current source.

A negative electrode, a method for manufacturing the negative electrode, a secondary battery, and a method for manufacturing the secondary battery, wherein the negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer includes a first negative electrode active material layer on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector and a second negative electrode active material layer on the first negative electrode active material layer. The first negative electrode active material layer includes ethylene carbonate.

A system and method for a liquid electrolyte used in secondary electrochemical cells having at least one electrode including a TMCCC material, the liquid electrolyte enabling an increased lifetime while allowing for fast discharge to extremely high depth of discharge. The addition of dinitriles to liquid electrolytes in electrochemical cells in which energy storage is achieved by ion intercalation in transition metal cyanide coordination compounds (TMCCC) has the advantage of increasing device lifetime by inhibiting common chemical and electrochemical degradation mechanisms.