A negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, containing a negative electrode active material particle, wherein the negative electrode active material particle includes a silicon compound particle containing a silicon compound (SiO.sub.x: 0.5≤x≤1.6), the silicon compound particle contains a Li compound, at least a part of the silicon compound particle is coated with a carbon material, and an O-component fragment and a CH-component fragment are detected from the negative electrode active material particle in a measurement by TOF-SIMS, and a ratio of a peak intensity A of the O-component fragment to a peak intensity B of the CH-component fragment is 0.5≤A/B≤100. This provides a negative electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of increasing battery capacity and improving the cycle characteristics and battery initial efficiency.

The present invention provides a dispersant for carbon materials, the dispersant containing a copolymer having a nitrogen-containing group, wherein the copolymer has a nitrogen content of 0.01 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less and the copolymer has an SP value of 8.0 to 12 (cal/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2.

A positive active material made of carbon-coated lithium iron phosphate includes a lithium iron phosphate substrate, and a carbon coating layer on a surface of the substrate. The lithium iron phosphate substrate has a general structural formula LiFe.sub.1-aM.sub.aPO.sub.4, where M is at least one selected from Cu, Mn, Cr, Zn, Pb, Ca, Co, Ni, Sr, Nb, or Ti, and 0≤a≤0.01. A carbon coating factor of the carbon-coated lithium iron phosphate, $\eta =\frac{\mathrm{BET}1}{\mathrm{BET}2},$
satisfies 0.81≤η≤0.95, where BET1 denotes a specific surface area of mesopore and macropore structures in the carbon-coated lithium iron phosphate, and BET2 denotes a total specific surface area of the carbon-coated lithium iron phosphate.

The present invention provides a cathode mixture that can be suitably used in a cathode mixture layer of an all-solid-state lithium-sulfur battery having an excellent charge/discharge capacity and a method of producing the cathode mixture, by maximally utilizing excellent physical properties of sulfur. The present invention relates to a positive electrode mixture for composite all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries, the positive electrode mixture containing sulfur or its discharge product (A); phosphorus pentasulfide (B); conductive carbon (C); and lithium halide (D) at a weight ratio of A:B:C:D of 40-60:15-35:5-20:16-30, wherein a peak at 50 ppm in 31P-MAS NMR has a relative intensity of 40% or less.

A method of producing a powder mass for a lithium battery, the method comprising: (a) providing a solution containing a sulfonated elastomer dissolved in a solvent or a precursor in a liquid form or dissolved in a solvent; (b) dispersing a plurality of particles of a cathode active material in the solution to form a slurry; and (c) dispensing the slurry and removing the solvent and/or polymerizing/curing the precursor to form the powder mass, wherein the powder mass comprises multiple particulates and at least a particulate comprises one or a plurality of particles of a cathode active material being encapsulated by a thin layer of sulfonated elastomer having a thickness from 1 nm to 10 μm, a fully recoverable tensile strain from 2% to 800%, and a lithium ion conductivity from 10.sup.−7 S/cm to 5×10.sup.−2 S/cm at room temperature.

A class of cathode materials and secondary ion batteries containing these materials are provided. These cathode materials at least include a cathode active substance comprising a first active substance and a carrier. The first active substance is selected from alkali metal halide or alkali metal sulfite, alkaline earth metal halide or alkaline earth metal sulfite, aluminum halide, zinc halide and zinc sulfite. The carrier has a low-dimensional structure and is selected from a template and/or a second active substance. The first active substance of the cathode material has a relatively low molecular weight and a relatively high redox potential, and thus the secondary ion batteries have a relatively high specific capacity and voltage.

A battery plate may include a current collector, wherein at least one face of the current collector may include a coated area and an uncoated area that may be connected, the coated area may be coated with an active material layer and an insulation layer, and the insulation layer may be located on one side of the active material layer close to the uncoated area. The insulation layer may include a first part and a second part that may be connected, the second part may be located in an edge area of the insulation layer close to the active material layer, and the active material layer may be configured to cover the second part, such that the active material layer may partially overlap with the insulation layer in a thickness direction of the plate.

An electrode, a lithium secondary battery including the same, and a method of preparing the electrode are provided. The electrode includes an electrode active material layer including an electrode active material and a binder, and having a plurality of through-holes; an electrode current collector on one surface of the electrode active material layer or between two surfaces of the electrode active material layer; and an interlayer between the electrode active material layer and the electrode current collector, wherein the electrode active material layer is a self-standing film and the plurality of through-holes included in the electrode active material layer extend to the interlayer.

A lithium-ion secondary battery and related preparation method thereof, battery module, battery pack and apparatus. The lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, an electrolyte and a separator, wherein the positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector and a first positive electrode active material layer and a second positive electrode active material layer sequentially disposed on at least one side of the positive electrode current collector; the lithium-ion secondary battery satisfies: −1≤log.sub.10(u/v)×w≤15.5, wherein, u is a thickness of the first positive electrode active material layer in microns, v is a thickness of the second positive electrode active material layer in microns, w is a conductivity of the electrolyte at a temperature of 25° C. in mS.Math.cm.sup.−1. The lithium-ion secondary battery has excellent performance such as low discharge resistance at low SOC and low gas production at high temperature.

The present application relates to a positive electrode material for a sodium-ion battery and a preparation method thereof, and a sodium-ion battery, a battery module, a battery pack and an apparatus manufactured from the active material, the positive electrode material for the sodium-ion battery comprises a composite of sodium halophosphate with carbon having the following molecular formula: Na.sub.2M1.sub.hM2.sub.k(PO.sub.4)X/C, in which M1 and M2 are transition metal ions each independently selected from Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Sr, Y, Nb, Mo, Sn, Ba and W; h is from 0 to 1, k is from 0 to 1, and h+k=1; X is halogen ion selected from F, Cl and Br, wherein the positive electrode material has a powder resistivity in the range of from 10 Ω.Math.cm to 5,000 Ω.Math.cm under a pressure of 12 MPa.