In at least one embodiment, a separator is provided with a fibrous mat for retaining the active material on an electrode of a lead-acid battery. New or improved mats, separators, batteries, methods, and/or systems are also disclosed, shown, claimed, and/or provided. For example, in at least one possibly preferred embodiment, a composite separator is provided with a fibrous mat for retaining the active material on an electrode of a lead-acid battery. In at least one possibly particularly preferred embodiment, a PE membrane separator is provided with at least one fibrous mat for retaining the active material on an electrode of a lead-acid battery. In accordance with at least certain embodiments, aspects and/or objects, the present invention, application, or disclosure may provide solutions, new products, improved products, new methods, and/or improved methods, and/or may address issues, needs, and/or problems of PAM shedding, NAM shedding, electrode distortion, active material shedding, active material loss, and/or physical separation, electrode effectiveness, battery performance, battery life, and/or cycle life, and/or may provide new battery separators, new battery technology, and/or new battery methods and/or systems that address the challenges arising from current lead acid batteries or battery systems, especially new battery separators, new battery technology, and/or new battery methods and/or systems adapted to prevent or impede the shedding of active material from the electrodes, preferably or particularly in enhanced flooded lead acid batteries, PSoC batteries, ISS batteries, ESS batteries, and/or the like.

The present invention pertains to an anode-less lithium ion battery comprising a) a cathode comprising a cathode current collector and a cathode electro-active material on the cathode current collector; b) an anode current collector; c) a liquid electrolyte composition between the a) cathode and the b) anode current collector; and d) a separator, wherein the c) liquid electrolyte composition comprises i) at least 70% by volume (vol %) of a solvent mixture with respect to the total volume of the electrolyte composition, comprising at least one fluorinated ether compound and at least one non-fluorinated ether compound, and ii) at least one lithium salt.

Embodiments of this application provide a battery separator, including a polyolefin-based porous separator, where the polyolefin-based porous separator includes polyethylene resin, an elongation rate of the polyolefin-based porous separator in an MD direction is greater than 120%, an elongation rate in a TD direction is greater than 120%, and for the polyolefin-based porous separator, crystallinity at a first-time temperature rise of polyethylene that is measured by using a differential scanning calorimeter is less than 65%, crystallinity at a second-time temperature rise is less than 55%, and a difference between the crystallinity at the first-time temperature rise and the crystallinity at the second-time temperature rise is less than 12%. The battery separator features a high elongation rate and a low temperature of closing a pore.

A secondary battery that generates or includes metal-ion contaminants selected from copper ions, manganese ions, nickel ions, cobalt ions, iron ions, aluminum ions, chrome ions, molybdenum ions, tin ions or combinations thereof, the battery comprising: an anode; a cathode; a coated or uncoated battery separator between the anode and the cathode, wherein the coated or uncoated battery separator comprises a trap layer; and an electrolyte. The battery improve yield rate of initial charge and aging process and exhibits prolonged useful life due to the separator, which reduces or eliminates metal-ion contamination in the battery.

A secondary battery that generates or includes metal-ion contaminants selected from copper ions, manganese ions, nickel ions, cobalt ions, iron ions, aluminum ions, chrome ions, molybdenum ions, tin ions or combinations thereof, the battery comprising: an anode; a cathode; a coated or uncoated battery separator between the anode and the cathode, wherein the coated or uncoated battery separator comprises a trap layer; and an electrolyte. The battery improve yield rate of initial charge and aging process and exhibits prolonged useful life due to the separator, which reduces or eliminates metal-ion contamination in the battery.

A lithium-ion battery, including a battery cell, an electrolytic solution, and a packaging film. The battery cell is formed by winding a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate that are separated by a separator. The lithium-ion battery is half-charged to obtain a half-charged full battery. The half-charged full battery is stripped of the packaging film to obtain a half-charged cell. When a width of the half-charged full battery is w.sub.1, a width of the half-charged cell is w.sub.2, and g=w.sub.2/w.sub.1, the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: 0.4<g<0.997. A negative active material of the negative electrode plate includes a silicon-based material. When a capacity per unit volume of the negative electrode plate is a, a and g satisfy the following conditional expression (2): 420 mAh/cm.sup.3<g×a<2300 mAh/cm.sup.3, where 619 mAh/cm.sup.3<a<3620 mAh/cm.sup.3. The present invention further provides an electronic device.

A separator including a porous base and a coating layer on at least one surface of the porous base, the coating layer including (a) a carbon nanotube including an oxygen functional group and (b) a lithium ion conducting polymer, and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same. Such a separator may be capable of resolving problems caused by lithium polysulfide occurring in a lithium-sulfur battery.

A separator including a porous base and a coating layer on at least one surface of the porous base, the coating layer including (a) a carbon nanotube including an oxygen functional group and (b) a lithium ion conducting polymer, and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same. Such a separator may be capable of resolving problems caused by lithium polysulfide occurring in a lithium-sulfur battery.

An electrode assembly includes an electrode plate and an embedded tab provided on the electrode plate. A spinning layer is provided on a surface of the electrode plate, the spinning layer covers the surface of the electrode plate and is in contact with the surface of the electrode plate, and the surface of the electrode plate includes a surface of the tab. The spinning layer replaces a conventional separator, and the spinning layer and the electrode plate are integrated as a whole. Especially in a battery structure with the embedded tabs, because the spinning layer is able to isolate metal burrs. The spinning layer replaces the green glue originally affixed on the tab region, thereby eliminating the glue affixed on the tab region.

A one-step molded lithium ion battery separator and preparation method and application thereof are provided. The battery separator comprises a support layer and a filler layer. The support layer comprises at least two of superfine main fiber, thermoplastic bonded fiber and first nanofiber, and the filler layer comprises at least one of inorganic fillers and third nanofiber. The lithium ion battery separator has a thickness of 19-31 μm, a maximum pore diameter of no more than 1 μm, and a heat shrinkage rate of less than 3% after treatment at 300° C. for 1 hour, and the separator still has a certain strength at a high temperature, ensuring stability and isolation of the rigid structure of the filler layer at a high temperature, satisfying requirements of the separator in terms of heat resistance, pore size and strength, having excellent comprehensive performance.