A battery includes a current collector, first electrode layer, first counter electrode layer, and second electrode layer. The current collector includes a first electroconductive portion, first insulating portion, and second electroconductive portion. The second electroconductive portion includes a first edge region, first front face region, first rear face region, first fold portion, second front face region, second rear face region, and second edge region. The first and second rear face regions face each other by the current collector being folded. The first electrode layer is disposed in contact with the first electroconductive portion, the first counter electrode layer in contact with the first front face region, and the second electrode layer in contact with the second front face region. The first insulating portion links the first electroconductive portion and first edge region. The first electrode layer and first counter electrode layer face each other by the current collector being folded.

A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer over the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode active material layer includes a plurality of lithium-containing composite oxides each of which is expressed by LiMPO.sub.4 (M is one or more of Fe (II), Mn (II), Co (II), and Ni (II)) that is a general formula. The lithium-containing composite oxide is a flat single crystal particle in which the length in the b-axis direction is shorter than each of the lengths in the a-axis direction and the c-axis direction. The lithium-containing composite oxide is provided over the positive electrode current collector so that the b-axis of the single crystal particle intersects with the surface of the positive electrode current collector.

A gas diffusion layer for a metal-air battery, the gas diffusion layer including: a porous layer including non-conductive fiber structures, a conductive carbon layer including a carbon material that is disposed on a surface of a non-conductive fiber structure of the plurality of non-conductive fiber structures.

An anode of lithium battery comprises a current collector and an anode material layer. The anode material layer is located in at least one surface of the current collector. The current collector is a three-dimensional porous composite structure. The three-dimensional porous composite structure comprises a porous structure and at least one carbon nanotube structure. The porous structure has a plurality of metal ligaments and a plurality of pores. The at least one carbon nanotube structure is embedded in the porous structure and comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes joined end to end by van der Waals attractive force, wherein the plurality of carbon nanotubes are arranged along a same direction.

A battery includes a first current collector, a first electrode layer, and a first counter electrode layer. The first counter electrode layer is a counter electrode of the first electrode layer. The first current collector includes a first electroconductive portion, a second electroconductive portion, and a first insulating portion. The first electrode layer is disposed in contact with the first electroconductive portion. The first counter electrode layer is disposed in contact with the second electroconductive portion. The first insulating portion links the first electroconductive portion and the second electroconductive portion. The first current collector is folded at the first insulating portion, whereby the first electrode layer and the first counter electrode layer are positioned facing each other.

A porous electrode substrate has a form of a tape material and contains a structure made of carbon fibers and a carbon matrix. A specific surface area, porosity, and pore distribution are determined by the carbon matrix. The carbon matrix contains carbon particles including activated carbon with a high specific surface area and a carbonized or graphitized residue of a carbonizable or graphitizable binder.

A battery module including bus bar cell interconnects and a method of manufacture are provided. The battery module may, in certain embodiments, include a housing, a plurality of battery cells disposed in the housing, and a bus bar cell interconnect. The bus bar cell interconnect is designed to electrically couple a first battery cell and a second battery cell. In some embodiments, the bus bar cell interconnect includes a first end electrically coupled with a first terminal of the first battery cell and a second end electrically coupled with a second terminal of the second battery cell. The bus bar cell interconnect also includes a curved portion disposed between the first end and the second end, and the bus bar cell interconnect is designed to distribute stress across the curved portion.

Provided herein are novel template electrode materials and structures for lithium ion cells. Related methods are also provided. According to various embodiments, an electrode can include a nanostructured template, an electrochemically active material layer coating the template, and a first intermediate layer between the nanostructured template and the electrochemically active material layer. In one arrangement, the nanostructured template includes silicide nanowires. The electrochemically active material may be any of silicon, tin, germanium, carbon, metal hydrides, silicides, phosphides, and nitrides. The first intermediate layer may facilitate adhesion between the nanostructured template and the electrochemically active material layer, electronic conductivity within the electrode, and/or stress relaxation between the nanostructured template and the electrochemically active material layer.

The invention relates to a positive electrode for a lithium-sulfur electrochemical accumulator comprising an electrically conductive substrate selectively coated, over at least one of its faces, with carbon nanotubes so as to create a zone coated with carbon nanotubes within which a plurality of separate zones without carbon nanotubes are arranged, these separate zones being qualified as empty.

An electrode current collector for a lithium secondary battery includes two or more metal foil layers, and a heat-pressure conversion layer positioned between the two or more metal foil layers, wherein the heat-pressure conversion layer includes a heat-pressure exchange ceramic material, a conductive material, and an adhesive. An electrode including the current collector, and a lithium secondary battery including the electrode are also provided.