The present disclosure relates to a lithium ion conductive material, preferably a lithium ion conductive glass ceramic, the material including a garnet-type crystalline phase content and an amorphous phase content. The material has a sintering temperature of 1000° C. or lower, preferably 950° C. or lower and an ion conductivity of at least 1*10.sup.−5 S/cm, preferably at least 2*10.sup.−5 S/cm, preferably at least 5*10.sup.−5 S/cm, preferably at least 1*10.sup.−4 S/cm, and the amorphous phase content includes boron and/or a composition including boron.

A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) assembly connectable to a source of a hydrocarbon fuel; said SOFC assembly comprises at least one SOFC. Each SOFC further comprises: (a) an anode support member having a nickel felt-made anode current collector; (b) an electrolyte layer disposed on the anode support member; and a cathode having a cathode current collector; the cathode disposed on said electrolyte layer. The nickel felt-made anode current collector is doped with Scandium.

A fuel cell system component ink includes a fuel cell system component powder, a solvent including propylene carbonate (PC), and a binder including polypropylene carbonate (PPC).

A solid electrolyte including: a lithium ion inorganic conductive layer; and an amorphous phase on a surface of the lithium ion inorganic conductive layer, wherein the amorphous phase is an irradiation product of the lithium ion inorganic conductive layer. Also, the method of preparing the same, and a lithium battery including the solid electrolyte.

Provided are an electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery enabling the realization of a battery that has a high volume energy density and exhibits a low level of degradation in output due to repeated charging and discharging even in a case in which the amount of an electrolyte solution held by the electrode is low, and a lithium-ion secondary battery including the positive electrode.

The coexistence of a high dielectric oxide solid and a highly concentrated electrolyte solution in a gap between articles of an active material inside the electrode is achieved.

The present invention relates to an all-solid-state iron-air battery, which comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and a solid electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode and the negative electrode are respectively arranged on opposite sides of the solid electrolyte; the separator is arranged between the negative electrode and the solid electrolyte to form a sandwich structure; the negative electrode is a ferrate material formed from an alkali metal-doped iron oxide; the positive electrode is a metal or a metal oxide material with an efficient redox catalytic activity; the solid electrolyte is an electrolyte material capable of efficiently conducting oxygen ions; and the separator is a film-like or sheet-like material having oxygen ion conduction and electronic insulation performances. According to the all-solid-state iron-air battery of the present invention, in the negative electrode, by introducing the alkali metal into an iron oxide crystal lattice by means of doping, the electrochemical reaction activity of the iron electrode can be remarkably improved, the potential safety hazard problem caused by battery overcharging is improved, and the performance of the iron-air battery is remarkably improved; and the separator is arranged between the solid electrolyte and the negative electrode, such that the battery electric leakage problem can be effectively relieved.

A precursor composition for a solid electrolyte is provided that is capable of achieving a high lithium ion conductivity even if the precursor composition is sintered at a temperature of 1000° C. or lower. The precursor composition for the solid electrolyte is a precursor composition for a garnet-type or garnet-like solid electrolyte containing Li, La, Zr, and M, wherein the M is one or more types of elements selected from Nb, Ta, and Sb, the compositional ratio of Li:La:Zr:M in the solid electrolyte is 7-x:3:2-x:x, a relationship of 0<x<2.0 is satisfied, and the precursor composition exhibits X-ray diffraction intensity peaks at diffraction angles 2θ of 28.4°, 32.88°, 47.2°, 56.01°, and 58.73° in an X-ray diffraction pattern.

A precursor solution of a garnet-type solid electrolyte is provided that is represented by the following compositional formula, and contains one type of solvent, and a lithium compound, a lanthanum compound, a zirconium compound, a gallium compound, and a neodymium compound, each of which has solubility in the solvent, wherein with respect to the stoichiometric composition of the following compositional formula, the amount of the lithium compound is 1.05 times or more and 1.30 times or less, and the amounts of the lanthanum compound, the zirconium compound, the gallium compound, and the neodymium compound are equal, (Li.sub.7−3xGa.sub.x) (La.sub.3−yNd.sub.y) Zr.sub.2O.sub.12 provided that the following relationships are satisfied: 0.1≤x≤1.0 and 0.0<y≤0.2.

An electrolyte sheet for solid oxide fuel cells, the electrolyte sheet including a ceramic plate body having a first main surface and a second main surface, wherein the first main surface and the second main surface include scattered recesses, and the recesses on one or both of the first main surface and the second main surface have an arithmetic average depth of 0.25 μm to 4.0 μm and a number density of one million recesses/cm.sup.2 to 100 million recesses/cm.sup.2.

A positive electrode layer for an all-solid-state battery, includes a first phase including a positive electrode active material containing Li, a second phase including a garnet-type solid electrolyte containing Li, Bi, M2, and O, and a third phase different from the first phase and the second phase. The third phase includes a Li—Bi-M2-O-based compound containing Li, Bi, M2, and O, and M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, Ba, Mg, Y, and Rb.