Disclosed are an electrolytic copper foil the fold and/or wrinkle of which can be avoided or minimized during a roll-to-roll process, a method for manufacturing the same, and an electrode and a secondary battery which are produced with such electrolytic copper foil so that high productivity can be guaranteed. An electrolytic copper foil of the disclosure has a longitudinal rising of 30 mm or less and a transverse rising of 25 mm or less, and the transverse rising is 8.5 times the longitudinal rising or less.

The present invention relates to: a current collector comprising a metal plate having a plurality of through holes formed in the thickness direction, and a porous reinforcing material filling the through holes of the metal plate; and a secondary battery comprising the current collector, and provides the effects of increasing ion conductivity of the current collector in the thickness direction and preventing stress from being concentrated at a specific part.

An electrolyte element (10) comprises a perforated sheet (11) of non-reactive metal such as an aluminium-bearing ferritic steel, and a non-permeable ceramic layer (16b) of sodium-ion-conducting ceramic bonded to one face of the perforated sheet (11) by a porous ceramic sub-layer (16a). The perforated sheet (11) may be of thickness in the range 50 μm up to 500 μm, and the thickness of the non-permeable ceramic layer (16b) may be no more than 50 μm, for example 20 μm or 10 μm. Thus the electrolyte properties are provided by the non-permeable thin layer (16b) of ceramic, while mechanical strength is provided by the perforated sheet (11). The electrolyte element (10) may be used in a rechargeable molten sodium-metal halide cell, in particular a sodium/nickel chloride cell (20). It makes cells with increased power density possible.

This positive electrode includes: a positive electrode current collector; a positive electrode mixed material layer that is formed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector; and a protective layer which includes an insulating inorganic compound and a conductive material, and is interposed between the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode mixed material layer. The protective layer includes secondary particles comprising agglomerated primary particles of the inorganic compound. The median value of the particle size of the secondary particles is 30 μm or less.

An assembly of lithium-based solid anodes to be formed into a lithium-ion battery. The anodes are formed with a fibrous ceramic or polymer framework having open spaces and an active surface material having lithiophilic properties. Open spaces within the fibrous framework and lithiophilic coatings deposited upon the surface of the fibrous framework allow for the free transport of solid lithium-ions within the anodes. In solid-state, lithium batteries can achieve higher capacity per weight, charge faster, and be more durable to extreme handling and temperature. A method for manufacturing a solid-state lithium battery having such an anode.

An anode for an energy storage device includes a current collector having a metal oxide layer. A continuous porous lithium storage layer overlays the metal oxide layer, and a first supplemental layer overlays the continuous porous lithium storage layer. The continuous porous lithium storage layer may be substantially free of nanostructures. The continuous lithium storage layer may include amorphous silicon deposited by a PECVD process. The first supplemental layer includes silicon nitride, silicon dioxide, or silicon oxynitride. The anode may further include a second supplemental layer overlaying the first supplemental layer.

A negative electrode slurry composition including (1) clay particles having, a plate-type structure and an average particle diameter (D.sub.50) of 10 nm to 2 μm, (2) carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), (3) a negative electrode active material, and (4) an aqueous solvent, wherein a weight ratio of the carboxymethylcellulose and the clay particles is 9.5:0.5 to 4:6. The negative electrode slurry composition is capable of solving problems due to the deterioration of storage stability and dispersibility of solids in a negative electrode slurry composition having a high solid content.

Provided is a current collector 30, including a metal foil 5 having a plurality of first through holes 5a, a metal oxide film 15 formed on a top or bottom surface of the metal foil 5, and a conductive layer 25 formed on a top or bottom surface of the metal oxide film 15. The plurality of first through holes 5a is filled with a conductive connection member 10 to form the metal foil 5. The metal oxide film 15 is formed to have second through holes 15a at locations corresponding to the plurality of first through holes 5a, respectively, on the top or bottom surface of the metal foil 5. The conductive layer 25 is formed to have a third through hole 25a at a location corresponding to each of the second through holes 15a on a top or bottom surface of the metal oxide film 15.

An electrochemical cell is provided, which includes a cathode comprising a three dimensional (3D) porous cathode structure, an anode, an electrolyte separator, comprised of a ceramic material, located between the cathode and the anode, and a cathode current collector, wherein the cathode is located between the cathode current collector and the electrolyte separator. The 3D porous cathode structure includes ionically conducting electrolyte strands extending through the cathode from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator, pores extending through the cathode from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator, and an electronically conducting network extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator.

This disclosure relates to a rechargeable battery cell having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte, which comprises a conducting salt, and a separator, which is arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode and the positive electrode are each an insertion electrode. The electrolyte is based on SO.sub.2. The separator comprises a separator layer which is an organic polymer separator layer. The thickness of the organic polymer separator layer, relative to the loading of the positive insertion electrode with active material per unit area, is less than 0.25 mm.sup.3/mg.