A positive electrode active material that has high capacity and excellent charge and discharge cycle performance for a secondary battery is provided. The positive electrode active material includes a group of particles including a first group of particles and a second group of particles. The group of particles includes lithium, cobalt, nickel, aluminum, magnesium, oxygen, and fluorine. When the number of cobalt atoms included in the group of particles is taken as 100, the number of nickel atoms is greater than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 2, the number of aluminum atoms is greater than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 2, and the number of magnesium atoms is greater than or equal to 0.1 and less than or equal to 6. When particle size distribution in the group of particles is measured by a laser diffraction and scattering method, the first group of particles has a first peak and the second group of particles has a second peak; the first peak has a local maximum value at longer than or equal to 2 μm and shorter than or equal to 4 μm, and the second peak has a local maximum value at longer than or equal to 9 μm and shorter than or equal to 25 μm.

The present exemplary embodiments relates to a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, a manufacturing method thereof, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. An exemplary embodiment may provide a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery comprising current collector and a negative active material layer positioned on at least one surface of the current collector, and comprising a lithium metal layer, wherein the negative active material layer comprising the lithium metal layer, comprises a coating layer positioned on the current collector and comprising a metal seed, and a lithium metal layer positioned on the coating layer.

Disclosed is an electrolyte for a lithium-sulfur battery and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same, more specifically an electrolyte for a lithium-sulfur battery including a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and an additive, wherein the additive includes a sulfide compound. The electrolyte for the lithium-sulfur battery improves the efficiency and stability of the negative electrode, thereby improving the capacity and lifetime characteristics of the lithium-sulfur battery.

An all-solid-state battery cell has a cathode on which a cathode current collector is attached, a solid electrolyte deposited on the cathode opposite the cathode current collector, an anode comprising lithium deposited onto the solid electrolyte opposite the cathode, and an anode current collector bonded to the anode opposite the solid electrolyte with a bonding layer of a metal alloyed with the lithium.

The invention relates to the simultaneous use of a first salt comprising a nitrate anion (NO.sub.3.sup.−) and a second salt comprising an anion other than nitrate, at least one of the first and second salts being a lithium salt, as ionic conductivity promoters in a rechargeable lithium-metal-gel battery. The invention also relates to a lithium-gel battery comprising a mixture of said first salt and said second salt, to a non-aqueous gel electrolyte comprising such mixture and to a lithium battery positive electrode comprising said mixture.

A system for electrical energy production from chemical reagents in a compartmentalized cell includes: at least two electrodes, comprising at least one anode and at least one cathode; at least one separator, that separates the anodes and the cathodes; and an ionic liquid electrolyte system. The system can be a battery or one or more cells of a battery system. The ionic liquid electrolyte system comprises an ionic liquid solvent; an ether co-solvent, comprising a minority fraction, by weight, of the electrolyte; and a lithium salt. In preferred variations, the anode is a lithium metal anode and the cathode is a metal oxide cathode and the separator is a polyolefin separator.

An all-solid secondary battery, including: a cathode; an anode; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode comprises an anode current collector; a first anode active material layer in contact with the anode current collector and comprising a first metal; a second anode active material layer disposed between the first anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer and comprising a carbon-containing active material; and a contact layer between the second anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer, and disposed such that the contact layer prevents contact between the second anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the contact layer comprises a second metal, and has a thickness less than a thickness of the first anode active material layer.

Current sulfide solid-state electrolyte (SE) membranes utilized in all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASLBs) have a high thickness (0.5˜1.0 mm) and low ion conductance (<25 mS), which limit the cell-level energy and power densities. Based on ethyl cellulose's unique amphipathic molecular structure, superior thermal stability, and excellent binding capability, this work fabricated a freestanding SE membrane with an ultralow thickness of 47 μm. With ethyl cellulose as an effective disperser and binder, the Li.sub.6PS.sub.5Cl is uniformly dispersed in toluene and possesses superior film formability. In addition, ultralow areal resistance of 5.10 Ωcm.sup.−2 and remarkable ion conductance of 190.11 mS (one order higher than the conventional sulfide SE layer) have been achieved. The ASLB assembled with this SE membrane delivers cell-level high gravimetric and volumetric energy densities of 175 Wh kg.sup.−1 and 675 Wh L.sup.−1, individually.

An aluminum foil comprising an aluminum foil substrate that has a porous region, wherein the porous region is formed throughout the entirety of the aluminum foil substrate in the thickness direction thereof.

An anode for a lithium rechargeable battery includes an interphase layer made of phosphorus-doped graphitic carbon nitride. The anode includes a lithium metal layer and an interphase layer provided on the lithium metal layer, in which the interphase layer includes phosphorus-doped graphitic carbon nitride. The interphase layer induces the lithium growth in a plane direction and reduces the growth of dendrites and decomposition of an electrolyte.