An electrochemical device includes a positive electrode including a positive current collector and a positive electrode material layer supported on the positive current collector, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode material layer includes a conductive polymer, and a surface roughness (Ra) of the positive current collector is in a range from 0.7 μm to 1.7 μm, inclusive.

Here is described an aluminum-ion battery technology having an electrolyte comprising an aluminum trichloride (Al—Cl3)/trimethylamine hydrochloride ionic liquid, aluminum metal as the anode material, and a compatible cathode active material. A wide variety of applications ranging from energy storage in consumer electronics to electric vehicles and to grid storage is also considered.

An improved rechargeable battery may utilize materials that are entirely solid-state. The battery may utilize at least one organic active material for an electrode. The battery may utilize a cathode that comprises quinone(s). An electrolyte of the battery may be an ion-conducting inorganic compound. An anode of the battery may comprise an alkali metal. Further, a carbonyl group of the quinone(s) of the cathode may be reduced into a phenolate and coordinated to an alkali metal ion during discharge and vice versa during charging.

A hydraulic binder includes at least 70% by weight of a solid mineral compound consisting of at least one mixture of silica, alumina and alkaline-earth metal oxides, the total sum of CaO and MgO representing at least 10% by weight of the solid mineral compound, and an activation system of which at least 30% by weight is a phosphoric acid-derived salt. Construction products can obtained from a mortar composition including such a binder.

An electrode active material including at least one selected from a quinodimethane derivative and a lithium salt thereof, wherein the quinodimethane derivative has at least three linearly-condensed aryl groups and at least two quinodimethane moieties.

The invention provides a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a cathode and an anode arranged so as to be opposite to each other, and an electrolyte layer put therebetween; wherein the cathode comprises: (a) a conductive polymer and (b) at least one selected from the group consisting of a polycarboxylic acid and a metal salt thereof, and wherein the anode comprises a material into which a base metal or ions thereof can be inserted and from which a base metal or ions thereof can be extracted. The invention further provides a cathode sheet for use in the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery mentioned above.

Disclosed is a carbon product, including a carbon material, and a redox functional group-containing polymer layer on a surface of the carbon material, as well as a sulfur-carbon composite containing the same, and a lithium secondary battery containing the same. More specifically, since the redox functional group-containing polymer functions to promote the reduction of lithium polysulfide, when the carbon material having the redox functional group-containing polymer layer formed or the sulfur-carbon composite is applied as a positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery, the performance of the battery may be improved.

Metal-sulfur energy storage devices also comprising new redox mediator compounds are described.

The present invention is concerned with novel compounds derived from polyquinonic ionic compounds and their use in electrochemical generators.

The invention is directed in a first aspect to electron-conducting porous compositions comprising an organic polymer matrix doped with nitrogen atoms and having elemental sulfur dispersed therein, particularly such compositions having an ordered framework structure. The invention is also directed to composites of such S/N-doped electron-conducting porous aromatic framework (PAF) compositions, or composites of an S/N-doped mesoporous carbon composition, which includes the S/N-doped composition in admixture with a binder, and optionally, conductive carbon. The invention is further directed to cathodes for a lithium-sulfur battery in which such composites are incorporated.