An electrochemical cell is provided which includes a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte separator, and an anode current collector located on the anode. The anode is a three-dimensional (3D) porous anode including ionically conducting electrolyte strands and pores which extend through the anode from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator. The anode also includes electronically conducting networks extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the anode current collector to the electrolyte separator.

An electrochemical cell is provided, which includes a cathode comprising a three dimensional (3D) porous cathode structure, an anode, an electrolyte separator, comprised of a ceramic material, located between the cathode and the anode, and a cathode current collector, wherein the cathode is located between the cathode current collector and the electrolyte separator. The 3D porous cathode structure includes ionically conducting electrolyte strands extending through the cathode from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator, pores extending through the cathode from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator, and an electronically conducting network extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator.

Nanostructured materials, and methods and apparatus for their production are provided. Nanostructured materials comprise nanofibers having nanoparticles deposited along the outer surface thereof. The size of the nanofibers and nanoparticles, and the spacing of such nanoparticles along the nanofibers may be controlled over a wide range. Nanostructured materials may comprise a plurality of such nanofibers interwoven together to form fiber cloth-like materials. Many materials may be used to form the nanofibers including polymer nanofiber materials (e.g., polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), etc.) along with compatible nanoparticle materials (e.g., salts or other crystallizable materials).

A binder composition contains a water-soluble polymer and water. The water-soluble polymer includes a nitrile group-containing monomer unit and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer unit, and has a weight-average molecular weight of not less than 1,000 and not more than 50,000.

Provided is an electrode for an electrochemical device that has excellent peel strength and can ensure a high level of safety of an electrochemical device. The electrode for an electrochemical device includes a current collector and an electrode mixed material layer on the current collector. The electrode mixed material layer contains an electrode active material, a binder, and a foaming agent. The binder is a polymer including a diene monomer unit and/or nitrile group-containing monomer unit, and in which the total proportion constituted by the diene monomer unit and nitrile group-containing monomer unit is 10 mass % to 80 mass %. Volume resistivity R.sub.A of a laminate of the electrode mixed material layer and current collector at 25° C. is 0.1 Ω.Math.cm to 200 Ω.Math.cm, and a ratio of volume resistivity R.sub.B of the laminate at 350° C. relative to volume resistivity R.sub.A of the laminate at 25° C. is 10 or more.

An electrochemical apparatus, including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active substance layer formed on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode current collector has a high tensile strength and the negative electrode active substance layer has a specific weight. The electrochemical apparatus has improved high-temperature storage expansion performance and cyclic expansion performance.

A positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector based on aluminum, a positive electrode mixture layer disposed on the positive electrode current collector and including a lithium transition metal oxide, and a protective layer disposed between the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode mixture layer. The protective layer includes inorganic particles, a conductive agent and a binder, the inorganic particles being a major component of the protective layer. The protective layer includes a first region disposed on the positive electrode current collector over substantially the entirety of a section covered with the positive electrode mixture layer, and a second region disposed on the positive electrode current collector so as to extend from a periphery of the positive electrode mixture layer. The weight per unit area of the second region is not less than 1.5 times the weight per unit area of the first region.

This application relates to an electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, and an apparatus thereof. The electrode plate of this application includes a current collector, an electrode active material layer provided on at least one surface of the current collector, and an electrical connection member electrically connected to the current collector. The electrode active material layer is provided on a main body portion of the current collector in a zone referred to as a film zone, the electrical connection member and the current collector are welded and connected at an edge of the current collector, at a welding zone referred to as an transfer welding zone and a transition zone is referred to as an extension zone, where the transition zone is of the current collector between the film zone and the transfer welding zone, and is coated with no electrode active material layer.

The present application discloses a negative electrode current collector, a negative electrode plate, an electrochemical device, and an apparatus. The negative electrode current collector includes a polymer material-based support layer and a copper-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer; wherein a thickness D.sub.1 of the copper-based conductive layer, a tensile strength T of the support layer, and a thickness D.sub.2 of the support layer satisfy a relational formula 0.01≤(300×D.sub.1)/(T×D.sub.2)≤0.5. The negative electrode current collector has relatively high mechanics and mechanical properties, good electrical conductivity and current collection performance and low weight, which can improve preparation yield of the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode plate and the electrochemical device and their reliability during use, and is beneficial to enabling the electrochemical device to have relatively high electrochemical performance and gravimetric energy density.

The present application discloses a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode plate, an electrochemical device, and an apparatus. The positive electrode current collector includes a polymer material-based support layer and an aluminum-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer; a thickness D.sub.1 of the aluminum-based conductive layer, a tensile strength T of the support layer, and a thickness D.sub.2 of the support layer satisfy a relational formula 0.01≤(200×D.sub.1)/(T×D.sub.2)≤0.5, in the formula D.sub.1 and D.sub.2 are in the same unit, and T is in MPa. The positive electrode current collector has relatively high mechanics and mechanical properties, good electrical conductivity and current collection performance and low weight, which can improve preparation yield of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode plate and the electrochemical device and their reliability during use.