An electrode assembly is provided. The electrode assembly includes a separator sheet, which is formed in a single sheet shape. The separator sheet includes a first folding folded to one side and a second folding folded to the other side. The first folding and the second folding are repeated at certain intervals to form separators. Unit cells, which are formed by stacking a plurality of electrodes and the separators, are respectively disposed in a plurality of first spaces formed by the first folding of the separator sheet. Independent electrodes, are respectively disposed in a plurality of second spaces formed by the second folding of the separator sheet and have a first polarity.

A battery including a negative electrode active material layer, a positive electrode active material layer and a separator. In a first direction, the positive electrode active material layer includes a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion. The second portion includes a first end, and the first portion includes a first surface. The first surface is connected to the second portion through a first connection, the first end is away from the first connection and is an end of the positive electrode active material layer, and a thickness of the second portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction decreases from the first connection to the first end in the first direction.

Provided is a pouch type secondary battery including a jelly roll in which a plurality of unit cells including a structure of a separator interposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode are laminated, wherein a unit cell positioned in an outermost layer of the jelly roll includes a carbon dioxide adsorbent.

A method for manufacturing a secondary battery includes manufacturing an electrode assembly having a stacked structure in which a negative electrode, an individual layer of a separator, a positive electrode, and an individual layer of the separator are repeated by alternately inserting the positive electrode and the negative electrode between the adjacent individual layers of the separator. Fold lines are formed on the separator at a predetermined interval, and the separator is folded in a zigzag shape along a vertical direction by the fold lines to form the plurality of individual layers; inserting the electrode assembly into a pouch; and discharging a gas from the Each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is manufactured in a square shape so that remaining three sides except for one side facing the fold lines are opened.

The present disclosure provides a method for forming a solid-state battery. The method includes stacking two or more cell units, where each cell unit is formed by substantially aligning a first electrode and a second electrode, where the first electrode includes one or more first electroactive material layers disposed on or adjacent to one or more surfaces of a releasable substrate and the second electrode includes one or more second electroactive material layers disposed on or adjacent to one or more surfaces of a current collector; disposing an electrolyte layer between exposed surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode; and removing the releasable substrate to form the cell unit.

Energy sources embodying the invention include one or more cells, where each cell includes an electrode (anode or cathode) which is a non-metal and another electrode which is a metal or non-metal, with the electrodes positioned relative to each other to produce a potential differential. The electrodes may be placed in a water solution or kept in air (dry). They may be spaced apart or be in direct contact. A conduction enhancing layer may be placed between the electrodes.

An electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes arranged in a stack along a stacking axis, where each of the electrodes in the stack is separated along the stacking axis from a successive one of the electrodes in the stack by a respective separator portion positioned therebetween. At least one outer surface of the stack may include a pattern defining a first region and a second region, where a second portion of the stack corresponding to the second region has a different property or height from a first portion of the stack corresponding to the first region. The property may include any one of shading or color of the at least one outer surface of the stack, air permeability of the separator portions in the first and second regions, and adhesive force between the electrodes and separator portions in the first and second regions.

A producing method of a flat-wound electrode body, which is formed by winding a strip-shaped positive electrode plate and a strip-shaped negative electrode plate via a pair of separators into a flat shape, includes winding of forming a cylindrical-wound electrode body by winding the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate interposed with the pair of separators into a cylindrical shape, and pressing of forming the flat-wound electrode body by pressing and flattening the cylindrical-wound electrode body. The pressing is to perform pressing to position a positive electrode end portion at a winding end of the positive electrode plate in a flat portion of the flat-wound electrode body.

Battery cells, each including an electrolyte, first and second working electrodes in the electrolyte, and first and second reference electrodes in the electrolyte, are disclosed. The first and second reference electrodes each comprises an active material on a current collector. The active material of the first reference electrode is different from the active material of the second reference electrode.

An electrode assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object includes: a first electrode formed in the form of a single sheet and repetitively in-folded and out-folded at a predetermined interval; a second electrode provided in plurality and respectively interposed in spaces formed by folding the first electrode; a separator formed in the form of a single sheet and interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode so as to be repetitively in-folded and out-folded at a predetermined interval together with the first electrode; and a cover part configured to cover at least portions of an area, on which the separator is out-folded and an exposed surface, which is exposed to the outside together with the second electrode.