Disclosed is a manufacturing method for an electrode of an electricity storage device. The manufacturing method includes: a working procedure of acquiring a long metal fiber by cutting an end surface of a metal foil coil; a working procedure of cutting the long metal fiber so that the average length is less than 5 mm in a state of pressing a bundle of the acquired long metal fibers or in a state of configuring the bundle of the long metal fibers in a cylinder; a working procedure of mixing a metal short fiber obtained from this with a positive electrode material or a negative electrode material constituting a positive electrode or a negative electrode of a lithium battery, to prepare slurry; a working procedure of coating a foil with the slurry; and a working procedure of forming a positive or negative electrode containing the short fibers through a working procedure of drying it to form a predetermined shape.

Provided is an anode for a lithium battery or sodium battery, the anode comprising multiple porous graphene balls and multiple particles or coating of a lithium-attracting metal or sodium-attracting metal at a graphene ball-to-metal volume ratio from 5/95 to 95/5, wherein the porous graphene ball comprises a plurality of graphene sheets forming into the ball having a diameter from 100 nm to 20 μm and a pore or multiple pores having a pore volume fraction from 10% to 99.9% based on the total graphene ball volume, and wherein the particles or coating of lithium-attracting metal or sodium-attracting metal, having a diameter or thickness from 1 nm to 20 μm, are selected from Au, Ag, Mg, Zn, Ti, K, Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Sn, V, Cr, an alloy thereof, or a combination thereof.

An anode for an energy storage device is provided that includes a current collector having an electrically conductive layer, a plurality of lithium storage filamentary structures in contact with the electrically conductive layer. For each lithium storage filamentary structure of the plurality of lithium storage filamentary structures, there is a first supplemental layer overlaying at least a portion of the respective filamentary structure, the first supplemental layer including silicon nitride or a first metal compound. There is further a second supplemental layer overlaying at least a portion of the first supplemental layer, the second supplemental layer having a composition different from the first supplemental layer and comprising silicon nitride or a second metal compound.

Systems and methods for pulverization mitigation additives for silicon dominant anodes may include an electrode including a metal current collector and an active material layer on the current collector. The active material layer may include islands of material separated by cracks, where the islands may include silicon, pyrolyzed binder, and conductive additives. At least a portion of the additives bridge the cracks of the active material layer and the additives may include between 1% and 40% of the active material layer. The active material layer may include between 20% to 95% silicon. The conductive additives may include carbon nanotubes and/or graphene sheets. The conductive additives may include metal, such as one or more of: gallium, indium, copper, aluminum, lead, tin, and nickel. The metal may include a transition metal, and/or one or more semiconductors. The conductive additives may include long narrow filaments with an aspect ratio of 20 or greater.

A method and system for copper coated anode active material may include providing a metal current collector; an active material layer on the current collector, the active material layer comprising at least 50% silicon by weight, a pyrolyzed carbon source; and a layer of metal on the active material layer that increases conductivity of the layer. The surface may be opposite to a surface of the active material layer that is coupled to the current collector. The layer of metal may comprise copper. The silicon may comprise particles ranging in size from 2 to 50 μm. The metal layer may comprise islands of metal on the silicon particles. The islands of metal may have a thickness of 100 nm or less. The islands of metal may be less than 50 μm across. A conductivity of the anode active material layer and layer of metal may be less than 2×10.sup.−5 Ω-cm.

The present invention relates to an electric energy storage device, in particular a battery, at least comprising: —an anode comprising a divalent metal selected from magnesium, calcium, beryllium and zinc or a combination thereof or an alloy comprising at least one of these metals; —a cathode comprising elemental sulphur, or a sulphur-containing organosilane compound, or a mixture of sulphur-containing organosilane compounds, or a mixture of sulphur and sulphur-containing organosilane compounds grafted on the surface of the cathode; and—an electrolyte placed between the anode and the cathode; wherein the cathode comprises a current collector surface that has been at least partly modified by grafting the sulphur-containing organosilane compound or a mixture of sulphur-containing organosilane compounds thereon.

This application provides a positive electrode plate, including a positive current collector, a positive active material layer on at least one side of the positive current collector, and a safety layer between the positive active material layer and the positive current collector. The positive active material layer includes a positive active material. The safety layer includes a binding material, a conductive material, and an overcharge-sensitive material. The overcharge-sensitive material is a polymer that includes a monosaccharide structural unit and that includes at least one of a carbonate group and a phosphate group. An average diameter x of the conductive material and a weight-average molecular weight y of the overcharge-sensitive material satisfy Formula 1.

This application relates to an electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, and an apparatus thereof. The electrode plate in this application includes a current collector, an electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector, and an electrical connection member electrically connected to the current collector. The electrode active material layer is disposed on a main body portion of the current collector at a zone referred to as a film zone, the electrical connection member and the current collector are welded and connected at an edge of the current collector at a welding zone referred to as a transfer welding zone, and a transition zone of the current collector between the film zone and the transfer welding zone, coated with no electrode active material layer, is referred to as an extension zone. The current collector is a composite current collector.

A method of forming a layered manganese dioxide for use in a cathode of a battery comprises disposing a cathode into a housing of an electrochemical cell, disposing an anode into the housing, disposing a polymeric separator between the anode and the cathode such that the anode and the cathode are electrically separated, adding an alkaline electrolyte to the housing, cycling the electrochemical cell into the 2.sup.nd electron capacity of the manganese dioxide, and forming a layered manganese dioxide having a layered manganese dioxide structure with the one or more additives incorporated into the layered manganese dioxide structure. The cathode comprising a cathode material comprising: a manganese dioxide compound, one or more additives selected from the group consisting of bismuth, copper, tin, lead, silver, cobalt, nickel, magnesium, aluminum, potassium, lithium, calcium, gold, antimony, iron, zinc, and combinations thereof, and a conductive carbon.

This application relates to an electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, and an apparatus thereof. The electrode plate in this application comprises a current collector, an electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector, and an electrical connection member electrically connected to the current collector, where the current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer, a single-sided thickness D2 of the conductive layer satisfies: 30 nm≤D2≤3 μm, and the support layer is a polymer material layer or a polymer composite material layer; and the electrode active material layer includes an electrode active material, a binder, and a conductive agent, and viewed in a width direction of a coated surface of the electrode plate, the electrode active material layer includes 2n+1 zones based on compacted density.