Provided herein are dry process electrode films, and energy storage devices incorporating the same, including a microparticulate non-fibrillizable binder having certain particle sizes. The electrode films exhibit improved mechanical and processing characteristics. Also provided are methods for processing such microparticulate non-fibrillizable electrode film binders, and for incorporating the microparticulate non-fibrillizable binders in electrode films.

A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, where the negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode active material layer, a lithium layer that is positioned between the negative electrode current collector and the negative electrode active material layer, and a primer layer that is positioned between the negative electrode current collector and the lithium layer, and a manufacturing method thereof. This results in a simple method and a negative electrode with high capacity characteristics.

Systems and methods for electrode lamination using overlapped irregular shaped active material may include a battery having a cathode, an electrolyte, and an anode, with the anode including an active material on a metal current collector. The active material may include a plurality of irregularly shaped pieces bonded to the metal current collector, and may include silicon, carbon, and a pyrolyzed polymer. The active material may include more than 50% silicon by weight. The plurality of irregularly shaped pieces may be roll press laminated to the metal current collector. Gaps may remain between some of the irregularly shaped pieces of active material. The gaps may absorb strain in the active material during lithiation of the anode. The metal current collector may include a copper or nickel foil. Portions of the metal current collector not covered by active material may be protected by an adhesive or inorganic layer.

Disclosed are an anisotropic collector for a lithium-ion battery, and a manufacturing method therefor and an application thereof. The collector is made of a resin material added with spherical metal particles. Conductive particles of the collector in an X-Y direction do not form a sufficient conductive network, but form a good conductive network in a Z direction. While a short circuit occurs, the collector is not easy to activate most of active materials in the X-Y direction so that thermal runaway is not easy to occur, but the collector may fully conduct electricity in the Z direction so that the battery may be normally charged and discharged, thereby improving battery safety.

A method of manufacturing a lithium metal negative electrode, a lithium metal negative electrode manufactured thereby, and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same is disclosed. The method of manufacturing a lithium metal negative electrode includes the steps of (a) applying lithium nitride powder on at least one surface of a lithium metal layer including lithium metal; and (b) rolling the applied powder to form a lithium nitride protective layer of a powder bed on at least one surface of the lithium metal layer.

The present disclosure relates to a method of making carbon nanotube supported self-standing electrodes embedded in a polymer based battery packaging material. The present disclosure further relates to a method of continuously making carbon nanotube supported self-standing electrodes embedded in a polymer based battery packaging material. The resulting self-standing electrodes may be used in a wearable and flexible battery.

A method for manufacturing a negative electrode, including the steps of preparing a negative electrode slurry including low-expansion natural graphite, a binder polymer, a conductive material and a dispersion medium; applying the negative electrode slurry to at least one surface of a negative electrode current collector, drying the coated negative electrode slurry, to form a preliminary negative electrode having a preliminary negative electrode active material layer; and pressing the preliminary negative electrode to obtain the negative electrode having a finished negative electrode active material layer. A difference between the specific surface area of the preliminary negative electrode active material layer before pressing and that of the finished negative electrode active material layer after pressing is 0.5 m.sup.2/g to 1.0 m.sup.2/g. A negative electrode obtained by the method and a secondary battery including the negative electrode are also disclosed.

The present disclosure provides a method for forming a bipolar current collector. The method may include heating a first current collector material having a first melting point to form a molten metal or metal alloy and disposing the molten metal or metal alloy on one or more surfaces of a second current collector material having a second melting point greater than the first melting point to form the bipolar current collector. The molten metal or metal alloy may be disposed on the one or more surfaces of the second current collector material using a twin-roll casting method or a spraying method. The bipolar current collector may include a first current collector including the first current collector material, a second current collector including the second current collector material, and an inter-diffusion layer that connects the first current collector and the second current collector.

The present technology relates to a dry method of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery, a positive electrode manufactured thereby, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. Thereby, a positive electrode including a positive electrode mixture layer with an appropriate density, and effective adhesion between the positive electrode mixture layer and the current collector may be realized.

SUMMARY A method of preparing an electrode for a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes the steps of: injecting a first slurry prepared by dissolving a first active material in a first solvent and a second slurry prepared by dissolving a second active material in a second solvent into a single coating device; and coating the first slurry and the second slurry onto a current collector through the single coating device, wherein the first solvent and the second solvent have different physical properties, and form a layered structure of a first layer including the first slurry and a second layer including the second slurry on the current collector, respectively.