A method of manufacturing a component having a porosity-controlled lithium metal coating includes setting up an aerosol spray apparatus having a material feeder and a confinement conduit in fluid communication therewith. The confinement conduit has an inlet end and a nozzle end. The method also includes setting up a substrate having an exposed surface on a moveable tooling plate and directing the nozzle end at the exposed surface. The method additionally includes loading a lithium metal into the material feeder. The method also includes feeding a high-pressure gas into the inlet end of the confinement conduit to thereby form an aerosol spray of lithium metal. The method further includes moving the tooling plate to regulate a thickness and a pattern of deposition of the lithium metal onto the exposed surface through the nozzle end to thereby generate a porous lithium metal coating on the substrate.

A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, the negative active material including a Si-carbon composite that includes Si nanoparticles and an amorphous carbon, wherein the negative active material has a sphericity of 0.7 or more, and a BET specific surface area of 10 m.sup.2/g or less.

A rechargeable manganese battery includes: (1) a first electrode including a porous, conductive support; (2) a second electrode including a catalyst support and a catalyst disposed over the catalyst support; and (3) an electrolyte disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode to support reversible precipitation and dissolution of manganese at the first electrode and reversible evolution and oxidation of hydrogen at the second electrode.

Provided herein is an electrically conductive, chemically insulated network of nanofibers that includes first carbon nanofibers electrically connected to second carbon nanofibers to form an electrically conductive network, and second carbon nanofibers electrically connected to other second carbon nanofibers, wherein at least one of the second carbon nanofibers is in direct surface contact with another of the second carbon nanofibers; and an active material that provides electrochemical insulation on surfaces of the first carbon nanofibers and partial surfaces of at least a portion of the second carbon nanofibers, wherein the active material comprises at least 50% by weight of the electrically conductive, chemically insulated network, and wherein the active material provides electrochemical insulation to the entirety of the electrically conductive, chemically insulated network of nanofibers including the area between the first carbon nanofibers and the second carbon nanofibers.

An electrochemical device, including a cathode; an electrolyte; and an anode. The electrolyte includes a phosphorus and oxygen containing compound, and the anode includes an anode current collector and an anode mixture layer formed on the anode current collector, and after 100 charge and discharge cycles, an area of lithium precipitation of a surface of the anode mixture layer is 2% or below based on a total surface area of the anode mixture layer. The electrochemical device has improved cycle performance, storage performance and safety performance.

An electrode for a secondary battery having high durability while reducing the internal resistance of the battery, and a method for manufacturing the electrode for a secondary battery are provided. An electrode for a secondary battery includes a current collecting foil including reactive functional groups on a front surface and a mixture layer formed on the front surface of the current collecting foil and including an active material, a binder, and carbon nanotubes including surface functional groups reactive with the reactive functional groups. More functional groups derived from the surface functional groups are present in the vicinity of the rear surface of the mixture layer than in the vicinity of the front surface of the mixture layer.

A zinc bromine electrochemical cell comprises an anode-side subassembly, an insulating porous separator, and a cathode-side subassembly. The anode-side subassembly comprises an anode current terminal, an anode current collector, an anode support, an anode sheet, and an anode insulating net. The cathode-side subassembly comprises a cathode insulating mesh, a cathode graphite felt, a cathode sheet, a cathode current collector, and a cathode current terminal. The anode-side subassembly and the cathode-side subassembly are separated by the insulating porous separator.

A secondary battery and a method for making the same are disclosed. The secondary battery includes a battery negative electrode, an electrolyte liquid, a diaphragm and a battery positive electrode. The battery negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, which also acts as a negative electrode active material. The electrolyte liquid includes an electrolyte and a solvent, the electrolyte being a lithium salt. The battery positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer, which includes a positive electrode active material capable of reversibly de-intercalating lithium ions.

A plate includes a current collector, an intermediate layer layered on the current collector, and an active material layer layered on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer contains conductive particles and insulating particles. At least a portion of an end edge of the intermediate layer is not covered with the active material layer. The intermediate layer hays a higher mass content of the insulating particles in a region not covered with the active material layer than that in a region covered with the active material layer.

The present disclosure relates to a composite positive electrode current collector. On a surface of an insulation layer, a protective layer, a graphene metallization layer and a conductive layer may be arranged in sequence; and the protective layer may comprise a metal oxide, and the graphene metallization layer may contain highly reduced graphene oxide having an oxygen-containing organic group.