Disclosed is a method for producing a battery electrode using a granulated polymeric binder composition where the binder composition comprises agglomerated particles wherein greater than 95% by weight of agglomerated particles are 400 um or greater but less than 2.5 mm and a bulk density of greater than 0.4 g/cc.

The present invention is directed towards a process for making an electrode wherein the process comprises the following steps (a) providing a particulate lithiated transition metal oxide according to the formula Li.sub.1+xTM.sub.1-xO.sub.2 wherein x is in the range of from zero to 0.1 and TM contains nickel and at least one of Co, Mn and Al, (b) mixing the lithiated transition metal oxide from step (a) with carbon in electrically conductive form, (c) exposing the mixture obtained in step (b) to a pressure in the range of from 100 to 500 MPa over a period of time of from one second to one minute, thereby causing cracks in at least some of the particles of the electrode active material, (d) mixing the mixture from step (c) with a binder polymer and, optionally, with further carbon in electrically conductive form and with a solvent, (e) applying the mixture from step (d) to a metal foil.

The present disclosure relates to an anode mixture for a secondary battery, an anode and a secondary battery including the same. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an anode mixture for a secondary battery including a binder composition, which is a mixture of an AAM/AA/AN copolymer and HASE, in a specific content range.

A method of forming an active material for a positive electrode of a lithium-ion battery includes quenching a powder of the active material in water. The active material may include layered lithium rich nickel manganese oxide.

Batteries, coating materials and methods for cathode active materials, composition of cathode electrode sheets are disclosed. The battery includes a cathode selected from the group consisting of a nickel-rich material and an iron phosphate material and an ionic-electronic conducting polymeric coating on the cathode.

Provided here are ion conducting materials including one or more macrocycles, and either one or more pendant groups or one or more backbone repeat units. The ion conducting materials exhibit distinctly high ion conductivity in thin film and bulk membrane applications, and further exhibit one or more of ion permselectivity, mechanical strength, self-assembly, stacking, and gating behavior. Further provided are methods for preparation and methods for use of the ion conducting materials.

The present invention relates to composite particles containing silicon and carbon, wherein a domain size region of vacancies of 2 nm or less is 44% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less when volume distribution information of domain sizes obtained by fitting a small-angle X-ray scattering spectrum of the composite particles with a spherical model in a carbon-vacancy binary system is accumulated in ascending order, and a true density calculated by dry density measurement by a constant volume expansion method using helium gas is 1.80 g/cm.sup.3 or more and 2.20 g/cm.sup.3 or less.

The present invention provides a binder for a nonaqueous secondary battery electrode capable of greatly improving the peeling strength of an electrode active material layer to a current collector while suppressing the occurrence of cracks in the electrode active material layer formed on the current collector. The binder for a nonaqueous secondary battery electrode includes a copolymer (P) having a structural unit (a) derived from a monomer (A) represented by formula (1), a structural unit (b) derived from a monomer (B) which is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof, and a structural unit (c) derived from a monomer (C) which is an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid ester of an aromatic alcohol.

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There is provided a negative electrode (100) for a lithium ion secondary battery, in which a negative electrode active material layer (120) containing at least a negative electrode active material and a binder is formed on a current collector (110). An insulating layer (300) containing at least an insulating material and a binder is further provided on a surface of the negative electrode active material layer (120), the binder contained in the insulating layer (300) includes at least styrene-butadiene rubber and at least one selected from carboxymethyl cellulose and salts thereof, and the binder contained in the negative electrode active material layer (120) is at least one selected from polyacrylic acid and salts thereof.

The present invention relates to an all-solid-state battery including: an electrode assembly including a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and a solid electrolyte between the negative electrode and the positive electrode; and a case for accommodating the electrode assembly, wherein the negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material and a binder, the negative electrode active material includes a carbon-based material and metal particles, the binder includes a first polymer of a butadiene rubber, and a second polymer selected from carboxy alkyl cellulose (wherein alkyl is a C1 to C6 alkyl), a salt thereof, and a combination thereof, and the first polymer and the second polymer are included in a weight ratio of 1:1 to 6:1.