This application relates to an electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, and an apparatus thereof. The electrode plate includes a current collector, an electrode active material layer provided 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 provided at a zone referred to as a membrane zone on a main body portion of the current collector, the electrical connection member and the current collector are welded and connected at a welding zone referred to as an adapting welding zone at an edge of the current collector, and a transition zone is referred to as an extension zone, where the transition zone is of the current collector between the membrane zone and the adapting welding zone and coated with no electrode active material layer. The current collector is a composite current collector.

Provided herein is a battery and an electrode. The battery may include two electrodes; and an electrolyte, wherein at least one electrode further includes: a nano-scale coated network, which includes one or more first carbon nanotubes electrically connected to one or more second carbon nanotubes to form a nano-scale network, wherein at least one of the one or more second carbon nanotubes is in electrical contact with another of the one or more second carbon nanotubes. The battery may further include an active material coating distributed to cover portions of the one or more first carbon nanotubes and portions of the one or more second carbon nanotubes, wherein a plurality of the one or more second carbon nanotubes are in electrical communication with other second carbon nanotubes under the active material coating. Also provided herein is a method of making a battery and an electrode.

The present invention is directed to a method of coating an electrical current collector comprising treating a portion of a surface of the electrical current collector with an adhesion promoting composition to deposit a treatment layer over the portion of the surface of the electrical current collector, wherein the resulting surface of the electrical current collector comprises (a) a treated portion comprising the treatment layer and (b) a non-treated portion that lacks the treatment layer; electrodepositing an electrodeposited coating layer from an electrodepositable coating composition onto the surface of the electrical current collector to form a coated electrical current collector; and rinsing the coated electrical current collector, wherein the electrodeposited coating layer substantially adheres to the treated portion of the surface and does not adhere to the non-treated portion of the surface. Also disclosed are electrodes and electrical storage devices.

Disclosed is a preparation method for a lithium-sulfur battery based on a large-area thick-film controllable textured photonic crystal. With a vertical deposition self-assembly method, as a solvent volatilizes, monodisperse microspheres are arranged in macropores of a substrate to form a photonic crystal structure; with the photonic crystal as a template, ordered microporous carbon is synthesized in gaps of the template, and then the photonic crystal template is removed to obtain a three-dimensional ordered hierarchical porous carbon photonic crystal, and thus a large-area thick-film controllable textured photonic crystal is formed. The large-area thick-film controllable textured photonic crystal is composited with element sulphur to obtain a sulphur cathode, and the sulphur cathode and metal lithium serving as a counter electrode are assembled into a lithium-sulphur battery. According to the invention, the controllable thick film with an electrode thickness of 10 μm to 650 μm can be achieved by changing the thickness of the substrate and the concentration of a suspension liquid. In the meanwhile, large-area preparation with an electrode area of 0.1 cm.sup.2 to 400 cm.sup.2 can be achieved by changing the area of the substrate. In addition, a high sulfur load of 1 mg.Math.cm.sup.−2 to 15 mg.Math.cm.sup.−2 can be achieved by adjusting the concentration of an organic solution of sulfur, thereby achieving a high surface capacity density and a high surface energy density of the lithium-sulfur battery.

This invention relates to particulate electroactive materials consisting of a plurality of composite particles, wherein the composite particles comprise: (a) a porous conductive particle framework including micropores and/or mesopores having a total volume of at least 0.4 to 2.2 cm.sup.3/g; (b) an electroactive material disposed within the porous conductive particle framework; and (c) a lithium-ion permeable filler penetrating the pores of the porous conductive particle framework and disposed intermediate the nanoscale silicon domains and the exterior of the composite particles.

An electrochemical cell may include: an anode; a porous anodic current collector; a cathode; a porous cathodic current collector; and an alkali metal-conducting separator that separates the anode from the cathode and is disposed surrounding the anodic current collector. The cathode may include seawater. A battery module may include a plurality of the electrochemical cells, and a battery may include a plurality of the battery modules.

A zinc based rechargeable redox static energy storage device includes a cathode including a carbon material—binder composition and an anode including carbon material—Zinc material—binder composition both infused with an eutectic electrolyte comprising one or more inorganic transition metal salt(s) of zinc, one or more Metal hydroxide(s) and eutectic solvent comprising derivative(s) of methanesulfonic acid, ammonium salt(s) and hydrogen bond donor(s); a separator separating the cathode and anode so that the ion exchange carries in between the cathode and anode through ionic permeability; and current collector connected with the cathode and anode respectively.

Disclosed are a negative electrode plate and a battery. A first negative active material layer is disposed at a bottom layer, and includes a first binder resistant to electrolyte swelling, has a better chemical corrosion resistance, and is not easy to age, so as to ensure long-term bonding, and reduce battery cell expansio. The negative electrode plate can maintain good mechanical strength and elongation at immersion of the electrolyte, so as to ensure that it is not separatedr. A second binder in a second negative active material layer away from the negative current collector uses a high swelling material, the high-swelling binder is in good affinity with the electrolyte, and the electrolyte infiltration speed is good, which facilitates lithium ion conduction. Furthermore, the high-swelling binder is bound to the separator well in a hot pressing process, so as to improve an interface bonding effect.

The present invention provides a battery electrode comprising an active battery material enclosed in the pores of a conductive nanoporous scaffold. The pores in the scaffold constrain the dimensions for the active battery material and inhibit sintering, which results in better cycling stability, longer battery lifetime, and greater power through less agglomeration. Additionally, the scaffold forms electrically conducting pathways to the active battery nanoparticles that are dispersed. In some variations, a battery electrode of the invention includes an electrically conductive scaffold material with pores having at least one length dimension selected from about 0.5 nm to about 100 nm, and an oxide material contained within the pores, wherein the oxide material is electrochemically active.

The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode material which includes a first positive electrode active material and a second positive electrode active material, wherein the second positive electrode active material has an electrical conductivity of 0.1 μS/cm to 150 μS/cm, which is measured after the second positive electrode active material is prepared in the form of a pellet by compressing the second positive electrode active material at a rolling load of 400 kgf to 2,000 kgf, a method of preparing the positive electrode material, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery which include the positive electrode material.