An electrode plate includes: a current collector, including, in a width direction, a first edge region, a second edge region, and a middle region located between the first edge region and the second edge region; a first coating layer, including a first portion and a second portion disposed on the first edge region and the second edge region respectively; and a second coating layer. A part of the second coating layer is disposed on the middle region, another part of the second coating layer is disposed on the first coating layer. The second coating layer includes an active material. A first bonding force between the first portion and the first edge region and a second bonding force between the second portion and the second edge region are both greater than a third bonding force between the second coating layer and the middle region.

An electrochemical device and electronic device, including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, wherein the positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material, and the negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode current collector and a group of step coatings disposed on surface of the negative electrode current collector close to the positive electrode plate, and a weight of the positive electrode active material per unit area on the positive electrode current collector is g.sub.a expressed in cm.sup.2, a gram capacity of the positive active material is C.sub.a expressed in mAh/g, a thickness of the step coating is L expressed in μm, and a theoretical volume gram capacity of sodium metal is X expressed in mAh/cm.sup.3, and L satisfies Formula (I) are described.

[00001]$\begin{array}{cc}L=\frac{C_a*g_a}{X}*10000*\left(1\pm 0\text{.1}\right).& \left(I\right)\end{array}$

This application describes a process for the preparation of carbon-coated particles, where the particles comprise an electrochemically active material. The process comprises the steps of emulsion polymerization, drying and thermally treating the polymer to obtain a nano-layer of carbon on the particles, where the carbon layer comprises fibers and nitrogen-containing polyaromatics have a graphene-like structure. The application also further relates to the particles produced by the method as well as to electrode materials, electrodes and electrochemical cells comprising the particles.

A positive electrode slurry composition of the present application may comprise a positive electrode active material, a lithium-supplementing agent and a binder, wherein the positive electrode active material may include a lithium-containing phosphate represented by formula (I),

LiFe.sub.1-b1-c1Mn.sub.b1M.sup.1.sub.c1PO.sub.4   formula (I) in which 0≤b1≤1, 0≤c1≤0.1, and M.sup.1 is selected from at least one of transition metal elements and non-transition metal elements in addition to Fe and Mn; the lithium-supplementing agent may be selected from one or more of lithium metal oxides of Li.sub.a1M.sup.2O.sub.0.5(2+a1), Li.sub.2M.sup.3O.sub.3, Li.sub.2M.sup.4O.sub.4, Li.sub.3M.sup.5O.sub.4, Li.sub.5M.sup.6O.sub.4, and Li.sub.5M.sup.7O.sub.6, and the binder may be represented by formula (II):

##STR00001## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently H or F, x, y, and z are all positive integers, and 0.52≤(4x+3y+2z)/(4x+4y+4z)≤0.7.

The present disclosure provides an electrode for an electrochemical cell. The electrode includes a polymer binder network and a plurality of electroactive material particles. The polymer binder network includes a plurality of fibers defining the polymer binder network. Each of the plurality of fibers includes a plurality of beads and a plurality of filaments. The plurality of filaments extends from at least a portion of the plurality of beads, respectively. The plurality of electroactive material particles is in voids of the polymer binder network. In certain aspects, the present disclosure provides a single- or double-sided electrode component including a current collector and the electrode.

There is provided an electrode layer for an all-solid state battery, which contains an electrode active material and a sulfide solid electrolyte, where the sulfide solid electrolyte has an average particle diameter of less than 1 .Math.m and the electrode layer contains an imidazoline-based dispersion material.

In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a method of preparing a positive electrode active material, which includes mixing a nickel cobalt manganese hydroxide precursor containing nickel in an amount of 60 mol % or more based on a total number of moles of transition metals in the precursor, a lithium-containing raw material, and a doping raw material represented by Formula 2 (set forth herein), and sintering the mixture to prepare a positive electrode active material represented by Formula 1 (set forth herein).

The present disclosure relates to a multilayer electrode and a method of manufacturing the same, and more specifically to a multilayer electrode comprising an electrode collector; and two or more electrode active material layers which are sequentially coated on one surface or both surfaces of the electrode current collector, wherein the electrode active material layers each include a carbon-based material, a binder, and a silicon-based material, wherein in the mutually adjacent electrode active material layers based on the direction of formation of the electrode active material layers, the content of the carbon-based material and the content of the binder in the electrode active material layer located relatively close to the electrode collector are larger than the content of the carbon-based material and the content of the binder in the electrode active material layers located relatively far away from the electrode current collector.

An anode material having 0.8≤0.06×(Dv50).sup.2−2.5×Dv50+Dv99≤12 (1); and 1.2≤0.2×Dv50−0.006×(Dv50).sup.2+BET≤5 (2), where Dv50 represents a value in the volume-based particle size distribution of the anode material that is greater than the particle size of 50% of the particles, Dv99 represents a value in the volume-based particle size distribution of the anode material that is greater than the particle size of 99% of the particles, and BET is a specific surface area of the anode material, wherein Dv50 and Dv99 are expressed in μm and BET is expressed in m.sup.2/g. The anode material is capable of significantly improving the rate performance of electrochemical devices.

In an aspect, provided is an alkaline rechargeable battery comprising: i) a battery container sealed against the release of gas up to at least a threshold gas pressure, ii) a volume of an aqueous alkaline electrolyte at least partially filling the container to an electrolyte level; iii) a positive electrode containing positive active material and at least partially submerged in the electrolyte; iv) an iron negative electrode at least partially submerged in the electrolyte, the iron negative electrode comprising iron active material; v) a separator at least partially submerged in the electrolyte provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; vi) an auxiliary oxygen gas recombination electrode electrically connected to the iron negative electrode by a first electronic component, ionically connected to the electrolyte by a first ionic pathway, and exposed to a gas headspace above the electrolyte level by a first gas pathway.