A process produces a shaped organic charge storage unit, especially a secondary battery, the electrodes of which contain an organic redox-active polymer, and which includes a polymeric solid electrolyte. Compared to conventional folded charge storage units, the charge storage unit shows greater resistance to deformation, which is manifested in a lower drop in capacity and a reduced tendency to fracture in the shaping process.

A decorative ring includes a body having a hollow tubular structure and defining a body space. A plurality of electrical energy generating elements is located in the body space and spaced apart from each other. The body space is divided into a plurality of sub-body spaces separated from each other. Each of plurality of electrical energy generating elements includes a first porous electrode, an eggshell membrane, and a second porous electrode stacked on each other in that order. A light emitting element is located on the body and electrically connected to one of the plurality of electrical energy generating elements. A liquid having positive ions and negative ions in the body space.

An electrochemical cell includes an anode that includes silicon, a conductive carbon, a lithium titanate, lithium metal, or a combination of any two or more thereof; a separator; a cathode having a cathode active material and a redox active species either mixed into the cathode or coated onto the cathode; and an electrolyte that includes a salt; and an aprotic solvent comprising a fluorinated ether solvent, a carbonate solvent, or a mixture thereof, with the proviso that the redox active species has substantially no solubility in the electrolyte. The redox active species may be a redox active organic compound or polymer.

An electrochemical cell for a secondary battery, preferably for use in an electric vehicle, is provided. The cell includes a solid metallic anode, which is deposited over a suitable current collector substrate during the cell charging process. Several variations of compatible electrolyte are disclosed, along with suitable cathode materials for building the complete cell.

A negative electrode plate includes a current collector and a negative electrode active substance layer disposed on the current collector, where the negative electrode active substance layer includes lithium carboxymethyl cellulose, and porosity of the negative electrode plate is greater than or equal to 33%. In this application, the negative electrode active substance layer includes lithium carboxymethyl cellulose, and the porosity of the negative electrode plate is greater than or equal to 33% so that the porosity of the negative electrode plate can be improved without affecting the compacted density of the negative electrode plate, thereby increasing electrolyte retention of the electrochemical apparatus and improving cycling performance of the electrochemical apparatus.

A surface-enabled, metal ion-exchanging battery device comprising a cathode, an anode, a porous separator, and a metal ion-containing electrolyte, wherein the metal ion is selected from (A) non-Li alkali metals; (B) alkaline-earth metals; (C) transition metals; (D) other metals such as aluminum (Al); or (E) a combination thereof; and wherein at least one of the electrodes contains therein a metal ion source prior to the first charge or discharge cycle of the device and at least the cathode comprises a functional material or nanostructured material having a metal ion-capturing functional group or metal ion-storing surface in direct contact with said electrolyte, and wherein the operation of the battery device does not involve the introduction of oxygen from outside the device and does not involve the formation of a metal oxide, metal sulfide, metal selenide, metal telluride, metal hydroxide, or metal-halogen compound. This energy storage device has a power density significantly higher than that of a lithium-ion battery and an energy density dramatically higher than that of a supercapacitor.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electrode with reduced thermal deterioration even though the electrode has an insulating layer comprising a polyimide. The present invention relates to an electrode comprising a current collector and an electrode mixture layer, wherein the electrode comprises an insulating layer comprising a polyimide and an aromatic compound having an electron donating group and an organic acid group.

The present invention provides a high-performance lithium-containing organic sulfur electrode material and a preparation method of an integrated flexible electrode. According to the present invention, 1,3-diisopropenyl benzene with diene bonds and Li2S6 are used as precursors to react to generate the lithium-containing organic sulfide Poly (Li2S6-r-DIB) through an in-situ polymerization method. The synthesized lithium-containing organic sulfide Poly (Li2S6-r-DIB) can be directly attached to a flexible conductive carbon cloth to prepare the integrated flexible electrode due to its good viscosity when heated to a certain temperature. The obtained flexible electrode has the advantages of high capacity, high flexibility, stable structure and the like.

To provide an electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte batteries, which traps hydrogen sulfide gas, generated from the inside thereof for some reason, in the electrode, and suppresses the outflow of hydrogen sulfide gas to the outside of the battery. An electrode for lithium ion batteries includes a coating material which contains a silanol group and is present on at least a surface of an active material layer. The active material layer contains a sulfur-based material and a resin-based binder. The sulfur-based material is an active material capable of alloying with lithium metal or an active material capable of occluding lithium ions. The coating material containing the silanol group is a silicate having a siloxane bond or a silica fine particle aggregate having a siloxane bond as a component.

The electrolyte according to the present disclosure is an electrolyte that conducts alkali metal ions and is used for producing an energy storage device. The electrolyte includes an organic crystal layer including a layered structure, the layered structure including an organic skeletal layer including aromatic dicarboxylic acid anions having an aromatic ring structure and an alkali metal element layer including an alkali metal element to which oxygen included in carboxylic acid anions of the organic skeletal layer are coordinated to form a skeleton, and an organic solvent charged in the organic crystal layer.