Materials and methods for preparing electrode film mixtures and electrode films including reduced damage bulk active materials are provided. In a first aspect, a method for preparing an electrode film mixture for an energy storage device is provided, comprising providing an initial binder mixture comprising a first binder and a first active material, processing the initial binder mixture under high shear to form a secondary binder mixture, and nondestructively mixing the secondary binder mixture with a second portion of active materials to form an electrode film mixture.

An engineered particle for an energy storage device, the engineered particle includes an active material particle, capable of storing alkali ions, comprising an outer surface, a conductive coating disposed on the outer surface of the active material particle, the conductive coating comprising a M.sub.xAl.sub.ySi.sub.zO.sub.w film; and at least one carbon particle disposed within the conductive coating. For the M.sub.xAl.sub.ySi.sub.zO.sub.w film, M is an alkali selected from the group consisting of Na and Li, and 1≤x≤4, 0≤y≤1, 1≤z≤2, and 3≤w≤6.

Provided is a binder composition for lithium ion secondary battery electrode-use that reduces internal resistance of a lithium ion secondary battery while also providing the lithium ion secondary battery with excellent life characteristics. The binder composition contains a copolymer X and a solvent. The copolymer X is obtained from a monomer composition X that contains at least 20.0 mass % and no greater than 75.0 mass % of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid compound (A) composed of either or both of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid salt, and at least 20.0 mass % and no greater than 75.0 mass % of a copolymerizable compound (B) that has an ethylenically unsaturated bond and a solubility of at least 7 g in 100 g of water at 20° C. The copolymer X has a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of less than 120 mass %.

Provides an aqueous binder composition for a secondary battery electrode, comprising a copolymer and a dispersion medium, wherein the copolymer comprises a structural unit (a), a structural unit (b), and a structural unit (c). The binder composition disclosed herein has improved binding capability. In addition, battery cells comprising electrodes prepared using the binder composition disclosed herein exhibits exceptional electrochemical performance.

Provided are an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery and an all-solid state secondary battery including the electrode sheet. The electrode sheet includes a current collector, a primer layer, and an electrode active material layer in this order, in which the electrode active material layer includes an inorganic solid electrolyte having ion conductivity of a metal belonging to Group 1 or Group 2 in the periodic table, an active material, and a binder a1, the primer layer includes the binder a1 and a binder a2, and in a case where the primer layer is equally divided into six sub-layers in a thickness direction and the six sub-layers are set as a first sub-layer to a sixth sub-layer in order from the electrode active material layer side toward the current collector side, a relationship between a ratio B1 of a content of a1 to a total content of a1 and a2 in the first sub-layer and a ratio B6 of a content of a1 to a total content of a1 and a2 in the sixth sub-layer satisfies B1>B6.

Described herein are composite anode compositions comprising silicon for use in an electrochemical cell. The composite anode compositions described herein include silicon as an anode active material having a particle size, crystallite size, and surface area that provide desired electrochemical properties. Further provided herein are electrochemical cells comprising the anode compositions and methods of making the same.

The present disclosure relates to a stretchable electrode, a method for preparing the same and a stretchable battery including the stretchable electrode. The stretchable electrode of the present disclosure, which is prepared by crosslinking a hydroxyl-functionalized fluorine-based polymer binder physically using a ketone-based solvent or chemically with a crosslinking agent, has superior stretchability, has improved interfacial adhesivity to an active material through Fenton's oxidation, exhibits improved stability under various mechanical deformations of the electrode such as stretching, etc. and can uniformly maintain the electrical conductivity, battery capacity and charge-discharge performance of the electrode.

In addition, the stretchable battery of the present disclosure, which includes the stretchable electrode, a stretchable current collector, a stretchable separator and a stretchable encapsulant, has improved stretchability and superior battery stability under various deformations due to high degree of freedom of structures and materials. In addition, the stretchable battery of the present disclosure can be prepared as a fiber battery by printing an electrode and a current collector sequentially on both sides of a stretchable fabric, which can be worn, e.g., around sleeves due to superior stretchability and high structural degree of freedom and retains high battery performance and mechanical stability even under mechanical deformation. Therefore, it can be applied to a mobile display for a health monitoring system or a smartwatch.

A method for quantitatively analyzing cohesive failure of an electrode analyzes cohesive failure of an electrode and includes preparing an electrode in which an electrode material mixture layer including an electrode active material, a conductive agent, and a binder is formed on a current collector, measuring shear strength (σ) data according to a cutting depth while cutting the electrode material mixture layer from a surface thereof until reaching the current collector using a surface and interfacial cutting analysis system (SAICAS), obtaining a regression curve of shear strength according to the cutting depth from the shear strength (σ) data, and determining a cutting depth, at which the shear strength is minimum in the regression curve, as a location of cohesive failure.

The secondary battery includes an electrolytic solution, a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and the negative electrode includes a plurality of particulate negative electrode active materials, a first negative electrode binder, and a plurality of second negative electrode binders with an average particle size smaller than the plurality of particulate negative electrode active materials. The plurality of particulate negative electrode active materials have an average particle size of 5 μm or more and 30 μm or less. The first negative electrode binder includes one or both of a styrene butadiene rubber and a derivative thereof. The plurality of second negative electrode binders include one or both of a polyvinylidene fluoride and a derivative thereof, and the plurality of second negative electrode binders have an average particle size of 0.1 μm or more and 10 μm or less.

The present disclosure provides a lithium manganate positive electrode active material, comprising a lithium manganate matrix and a cladding layer, where the cladding layer comprises an organic bonding material, one or more A-type salts, and one or more B-type salts. The lithium manganate positive electrode active material of the present disclosure significantly reduces the content of transition metal manganese ions within a battery through combined action of the organic bonding material, the A-type salts, and the B-type salts, thereby slowing down the decomposition and consumption of the SEI film (solid electrolyte interphase) by transition metal manganese, and improving the capacity retention rate and impedance performance of the battery.