A method of manufacturing an electrode for secondary battery is provided. The method includes melting lithium at a first temperature to produce a first melt; stirring a metal fluoride powder together with the first melt at a second temperature to produce a second melt; and producing a lithium alloy electrode with the second melt, wherein the lithium alloy electrode includes lithium fluoride.

An all-solid secondary battery, including: a cathode; an anode; and a solid electrolyte disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode includes an anode current collector; a first anode active material layer in contact with the anode current collector and including a first metal; a second anode active material layer disposed between the first anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte and including a carbon-containing active material; and a contact layer between the second anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte, the contact layer including a second metal, and having a thickness less than a thickness of the first anode active material layer, wherein the second metal includes lithium metal, a lithium alloy, a metal alloyable with lithium, or a combination thereof.

The present disclosure provides an electrode piece and a battery. The electrode piece includes a current collector and a functional layer located on a first surface of the current collector, the first surface is provided with a tab, and the functional layer is composed of a normal area away from the tab and a recessed area near the tab, and a thickness of the recessed area is less than a thickness of the normal area. The present disclosure can effectively prevent problems such as excessive thickness of part of a cell near the tab, thereby improving battery qualities such as safety and charging/discharging rate.

A lithium primary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode material mixture including Li.sub.xMnO.sub.2 where 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.05. The negative electrode contains at least one of metal lithium and a lithium alloy. The non-aqueous electrolyte contains an oxalate borate complex component and a cyclic imide component. In the non-aqueous electrolyte, the concentration of the oxalate borate complex component is 5.5 mass% or less, and the concentration of the cyclic imide component is 1 mass% or less. The mass ratio of the cyclic imide component to the oxalate borate complex component contained in the non-aqueous electrolyte is 0.02 or more and 10 or less.

An electrochemical element includes a current collector, and an active material layer supported on the current collector, wherein the active material layer includes active material particles, the active material particles each include lithium silicate composite particles each including a lithium silicate phase and silicon particles dispersed in the lithium silicate phase, and a first coating that covers at least a portion of a surface of the lithium silicate composite particles, the first coating includes an oxide of a first element other than a non-metal element, the active material layer has a thickness TA, and T1b > T1t is satisfied, where T1b is a thickness of the first coating that covers the lithium silicate composite particles at a position of 0.25TA from the surface of the current collector in the active material layer, and T1t is a thickness of the first coating that covers the lithium silicate composite particles at a position of 0.75TA from the surface of the current collector in the active material layer.

Sodium-based all solid-state batteries exhibit improved battery cycle life and stability with the use of a new chloride-based sodium solid electrolyte in which sodium diffusivity within the electrolyte is enhanced through substitution of atoms including one or more of Y with Zr, Ti, Hf, Ta, and Na with one or more of Ca and Sr.

Sodium-based all solid-state batteries exhibit improved battery cycle life and stability with the use of a new chloride-based sodium solid electrolyte in which sodium diffusivity within the electrolyte is enhanced through substitution of atoms including one or more of Y with Zr, Ti, Hf, Ta, and Na with one or more of Ca and Sr.

A system and method for optimizing electrochemical cells including electrodes employing coordination compounds by mediating water content within a desired water content profile that includes sufficient coordinated water and reduces non-coordinated water below a desired target and with electrochemical cells including a coordination compound electrochemically active in one or more electrodes, with an improvement in electrochemical cell manufacture that relaxes standards for water content of electrochemical cells having one or more electrodes including one or more such transition metal cyanide coordination compounds.

An electrochemical cell including a lithium metal anode and a multilayered cathode includes a lithium metal anode laminated, electroplated, or alloyed onto a first current collector, a multilayered cathode layered onto a second current collector, and a separator disposed between the lithium metal anode and the multilayered cathode. In some examples, the lithium metal anode is electroplated onto the first current collector when the electrochemical cell is charged and stored within the multilayered cathode when the electrochemical cell is discharged. In some examples, multilayered cathode further includes an integrated ceramic separator.

Disclosed herein is a lithium ion battery which operates stably at high temperatures. The battery disclosed herein has a chemical composition amenable to long-term operation at elevated temperatures and employs a lithium-based cathode, a silicon-based anode, and a piperidinium-based electrolyte solution.