The present application relates to an electrode, a method for manufacturing the electrode, and a secondary battery comprising the electrode. The present application relates to an electrode comprising a current collector, an active material layer, and a thiophene polymer layer formed on the active material layer and can provide an electrode capable of ensuring a higher level of adhesion force between particles and adhesion force between the active material layer and the current collector relative to the binder content in the active material layer. In addition, the present application can provide a method for manufacturing the electrode, and a secondary battery comprising the same.

The invention relates to a cathode composition usable in a lithium-ion battery, to a process for the preparation of this composition, to such a cathode and to a lithium-ion battery incorporating this cathode. The composition comprises an active material which comprises an alloy of lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxides, an electrically conductive filler and a polymeric binder, and it is such that said polymeric binder comprises at least one modified polymer (Id2) which is the product of a thermal oxidation reaction of a starting polymer and which incorporates oxygenated groups comprising CO groups, the composition being capable of being obtained by the molten route and without evaporation of solvent by being the product of said thermal oxidation reaction applied to a precursor mixture comprising said active material, said electrically conductive filler, said starting polymer and a sacrificial polymer phase.

An electrode assembly includes a positive electrode plate containing a positive active material and a negative electrode plate. The positive electrode plate includes a positive bend portion and a positive flat straight portion connected to the positive bend portion. At least a part of the positive active material of the positive bend portion includes a polymer coating layer capable of obstructing migration of active ions. A ratio of an ionic conductivity λ.sub.1 of the first bend portion to an ionic conductivity λ.sub.2 of the positive flat straight portion satisfies 0 ≤ λ.sub.1/λ.sub.2 < 1.

Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for assembling battery cells, the method including forming electrode layers in a pasty state on electrically conductive supports, these electrode layers being mixtures of ion-conductive liquid electrolytes, monomer or polymer mixtures, and initiators of polymerisation or cross-linking of the monomer or polymer mixtures, the electrode layers being exposed to a radiation initiating their solidification then placed in contact with a separation layer in the liquid state before completion of their respective solidifications, in such a way as to obtain a solid electrolyte battery cell having properties close to those of liquid electrolyte battery cells.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a binder composition for a lithium-ion secondary battery electrode. The method comprises a step of dissolving a polymer having a melting point in a range of 50° C. to 150° C. in a monomer and obtaining a monomer solution in which the polymer is dissolved in the monomer; and a step of obtaining a composite polymer particle by subjecting the monomer solution to suspension polymerization or emulsion polymerization in an aqueous medium. The binder composition contains the composite polymer particle.

Articles and methods involving electrochemical cells and/or electrochemical cell preproducts comprising passivating agents are generally provided. In certain embodiments, an electrochemical cell includes first and second passivating agents. In some embodiments, an electrochemical cell may include a first electrode comprising a first surface, a second electrode (e.g., a counter electrode with respect to the first electrode) comprising a second surface, a first passivating agent configured and arranged to passivate the first surface, and a second passivating agent configured and arranged to passivate the second surface.

Provided are poly(arylamine)s. The polymers can be redox active. The polymers can be used as electrode materials in, for example, electrochemical energy storage systems. The polymers can be made by electropolymerization on a conducting substrate (e.g., a current collector).

Provided is a composite particulate for use in a lithium-ion battery anode. The composite particulate comprises one or a plurality of nanowires of an anode active material (e.g. Si, Ge, Sn, SiO.sub.x, SnO.sub.2, etc., where 0.1≤x≤1.9), having a diameter or thickness from 0.5 nm to 500 nm, encapsulated by or embedded in an electrically and/or ionically conducting polymer gel network. The polymer gel network may further comprise graphene sheets and/or other conductive additives (e.g. carbon nanotubes, CNT) dispersed therein. Also provided is a process for producing multiple composite particulates herein described.

Rechargeable metal batteries are disclosed having a protective ionic membrane layer on a metal anode. The ionic membrane can be formed from ionomers in the electrolyte including polymerizable ionic liquid monomers or halogenated alkyl anion salts. Such ionic membranes can continuously supply ions near the anode electrode and stabilize the anode metal electrode.

Articles and methods involving electrochemical cells and/or electrochemical cell preproducts comprising passivating agents are generally provided. In certain embodiments, an electrochemical cell includes first and second passivating agents. In some embodiments, an electrochemical cell may include a first electrode comprising a first surface, a second electrode (e.g., a counter electrode with respect to the first electrode) comprising a second surface, a first passivating agent configured and arranged to passivate the first surface, and a second passivating agent configured and arranged to passivate the second surface.