A composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery adhesive layer contains organic particles and a water-soluble polymer. The water-soluble polymer has a 1 mass % aqueous solution viscosity of at least 500 mPa.Math.s and not more than 9,000 mPa.Math.s. Viscosity .sub.0 of the composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery adhesive layer at a shear rate of 100 s.sup.1 is at least 10 mPa.Math.s and not more than 200 mPa.Math.s, and a ratio of .sub.0 relative to viscosity .sub.1 of the composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery adhesive layer at a shear rate of 10,000 s.sup.1 is at least 1.5 and not more than 5.0.

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.

Battery separators for lithium-air batteries are provided. In some embodiments, a lithium-air battery may comprise one or more electrochemical cells including an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, and a battery separator positioned between the anode and the cathode. The battery separator may comprise a porous membrane having a lithium ion conductive film on at least a portion of the porous membrane. The lithium ion conductive film may comprise layers designed to impart beneficial properties to the porous membrane and/or battery, such as resistance to dendrite formation, while having relatively minimal or no adverse effects on one or more important properties of the porous membrane (e.g., ionic conductivity, electrolyte permeability, weight, mechanical stability) and/or the overall battery. The respective characteristics and number of the layers in the lithium ion conductive film may be selected to impart desirable properties to the battery separator and/or the battery while having relatively minimal or no adverse effects.

Various implementations of a method of forming an electrochemical cell include providing a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator between the first and second electrodes, and an electrolyte in a cell container. The first electrode can include silicon-dominant electrochemically active material. The silicon-dominant electrochemically active material can include greater than 50% silicon by weight. The method can also include exposing at least a part of the electrochemical cell to CO.sub.2, and forming a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer on the first electrode using the CO.sub.2.

A lithium iron phosphate power battery includes: a battery case; a battery cell in the battery case, including: a positive plate including a positive current collector and a positive active material formed thereon, the positive active material including lithium iron phosphate having a primary particle diameter of no more than 200 nm and a D50 of no more than 3 m, a mass content of the lithium iron phosphate in the positive active material being 93-96%, a solid content of the positive active material being 50-65%; a negative plate including a negative current collector and a negative active material formed thereon, the negative active material including a graphite having a D50 of 10-15 m, a mass content of the graphite in the negative active material being 92-95%, a solid content of the negative active material being 50-65%; a separator between the positive plate and the negative plate; and an electrolyte.

A packaging material for batteries, which is not susceptible to the formation of a pinhole or cracking during the forming, while having excellent formability, and is effectively suppressed in curling after the forming, which is formed of a laminate with at least a base layer, an adhesive layer, a metal layer and a thermally fusible resin layer in this order, and wherein: the tensile modulus of elasticity of the base layer in one direction and the tensile modulus of elasticity of the base layer in a perpendicular direction in the same plane are both within the range of from 400 N/15 mm to 1,000 N/15 mm (inclusive); and the absolute value of the difference between the tensile modulus of elasticity of the base layer in the one direction and the tensile modulus of elasticity of the base layer in the other is 150 N/15 mm or less.

Battery separators for lithium-air batteries are provided. In some embodiments, a lithium-air battery may comprise one or more electrochemical cells including an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, and a battery separator positioned between the anode and the cathode. The battery separator may comprise a porous membrane having a lithium ion conductive film on at least a portion of the porous membrane. The lithium ion conductive film may comprise layers designed to impart beneficial properties to the porous membrane and/or battery, such as resistance to dendrite formation, while having relatively minimal or no adverse effects on one or more important properties of the porous membrane (e.g., ionic conductivity, electrolyte permeability, weight, mechanical stability) and/or the overall battery. The respective characteristics and number of the layers in the lithium ion conductive film may be selected to impart desirable properties to the battery separator and/or the battery while having relatively minimal or no adverse effects.

An apparatus for assembling a conductor assembly for a PEM fuel cell includes an application module for applying first and second stripes of an adhesive onto a rolled-out segment of GDL material, wherein the first and second stripes run along respective first and second longitudinal edges of the GDL material defining an applied segment. A cutting module cuts the applied segment to form one or more cut segments each having a respective primary surface on which respective portions of the stripes are carried. A laminating module laminates a subgasket between two cut segments, wherein the subgasket has a window bounded by a window periphery, and the two cut segments are oriented with their primary surfaces facing and covering the window with their respective portions of the first and second stripes being in contact with the window periphery.

Provided herein solid-state battery architectures that include an oxide electrolyte in contact with the anode of an electrochemical cell and a sulfide electrolyte in contact with the cathode of an electrochemical cell.

A sodium all-solid secondary battery including: a cathode; an anode; a sulfide-containing electrolyte between the cathode and the anode; an oxide-containing electrolyte between the sulfide-containing electrolyte and the anode; and a first bonding layer between the oxide-containing electrolyte and the sulfide-containing electrolyte, wherein the cathode includes a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer, the anode includes an anode current collector and an anode active material layer, and the first bonding layer includes a metal capable of forming an alloy with sodium, a sodium ion-conductive material, or a combination thereof.