An anode for a lithium-based energy storage device such as a lithium-ion battery is disclosed. The anode includes an electrically conductive current collector comprising an electrically conductive layer and a transition metal oxide layer overlaying the electrically conductive layer. The anode may include a continuous porous lithium storage layer provided over the transition metal oxide layer. The continuous porous lithium storage layer may include at least 40 atomic % silicon. A method of making the anode may include providing an electrically conductive current collector having an electrically conductive layer and a transition metal oxide layer provided over the electrically conductive layer. The transition metal oxide layer may have an average thickness of at least 0.05 μm. A continuous porous lithium storage layer is deposited over the transition metal oxide layer by PECVD.

An anode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a carbon-based particle, and a coating layer bonded to at least a portion of a surface of the carbon-based particle. The coating layer includes boron and a conductive material. An electrolyte decomposition reaction is suppressed by the coating layer, and capacity and life-span of the battery can be improved.

A main object of the present invention is to provide an anode current collector that is capable of inhibiting the reaction with liquid electrolyte. The present invention achieves the object by providing an anode current collector to be used for a fluoride ion battery; and the anode current collector being a simple substance of Fe, Mg, or Ti, or an alloy containing one or more of these metal elements.

Provided are a lithium primary battery in which a structure of an electrode closely related to output characteristics of the battery is improved to expand a reaction area, thus improving the output characteristics of the battery, and a method for manufacturing the lithium primary battery.

The present disclosure provides batteries that have a reduced risk or no risk of esophageal or gastrointestinal damage in a conductive aqueous environment, such as when accidentally swallowed. The batteries are, in some embodiments, nominally 9V, 3V or 1.5V coin or button cell-type batteries.

An electrochemical cell is provided which includes a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte separator, and an anode current collector located on the anode. The anode is a three-dimensional (3D) porous anode including ionically conducting electrolyte strands and pores which extend through the anode from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator. The anode also includes electronically conducting networks extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator.

The present disclosure provides batteries that have a reduced risk or no risk of esophageal or gastrointestinal damage in a conductive aqueous environment, such as when accidentally swallowed. The batteries are, in some embodiments, nominally 9V, 3V or 1.5V coin or button cell-type batteries.

An electrode material of a lithium-ion battery is provided. The electrode material of the lithium-ion battery has 5 to 70 parts by weight of unbuffered active material; and 30 to 95 parts by weight of buffered active material. By adding a specific proportion of a buffered material (such as the graphite material particles), the electrode material of the lithium-ion battery avoids or reduces breakage or cracking of the unbuffered active material themselves or the shell thereof during a rolling step, so a cycle life of a battery can be improved.

Provided is an all solid state battery having improved charge-discharge capacity. The all solid state battery has a structure in which a current collector layer, an electrode body layer and a solid electrolyte layer are laminated in that order, wherein the electrode body layer has an active material layer and a conductive member, the active material layer contacts the solid electrolyte layer, the conductive member contacts the current collector layer and has a protruding portion, and the protruding portion protrudes towards the solid electrolyte layer from at least a portion of the surface of the current collector layer on the electrode body layer side, and contacts the surface of the active material layer in the direction of thickness thereof.

A secondary alkaline battery includes an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. The cathode includes a current collector, a cathode mixture in electrical contact with the current collector. The cathode mixture comprises: manganese oxide, a copper compound comprising copper, a salt of copper, an alloy thereof, or any combination thereof, a bismuth compound comprising bismuth, a salt of bismuth, or any combination thereof, and a conductive carbon. The secondary alkaline battery can also include a first composition in contact with the current collector and disposed between the current collector and the cathode mixture that includes copper, a salt of copper, an alloy thereof, or a combination thereof.