A negative electrode active material having a specific aspect ratio and sphericity in a cumulative particle volume distribution. When tested by using a dynamic particle image analyzer, when a cumulative particle volume distribution of the negative electrode active material is 10%, an aspect ratio AR.sub.10 of the negative electrode active material satisfies 0.4≤AR.sub.10≤0.55, and a sphericity S.sub.10 of the negative electrode active material satisfies 0.48≤S.sub.10≤0.60. The negative electrode active material improves rate performance, dynamics performance, and a deformation problem of the electrochemical apparatus.

An electrode sheet includes a current collector and a first active material layer on a first surface of the current collector. The first active material layer includes a main portion and a first buffer portion. The main portion includes a first inner surface and an outer surface. The first inner surface is attached to the current collector, and the outer surface is parallel to the first inner surface. The first active material layer has a height that is a vertical distance from the outer surface to the first inner surface. The first buffer portion includes a second inner surface, a buffer surface, and an inner wall surface defining a first groove. A first end of the buffer surface is connected to the outer surface, a second end of the buffer surface is connected to the inner wall surface. The inner wall surface is shorter than the first active material layer.

A negative electrode active material includes a carbon material, where the carbon material has a specific degree of graphitization and aspect ratio distribution. A degree of graphitization Gr of the carbon material measured by an X-ray diffraction analysis method is 0.82 to 0.92, and based on a total quantity of particles of the carbon material, a proportion of particles with an aspect ratio greater than 3.3 in the carbon material is less than 10%. The negative electrode active material helps to improve cycle performance of the electrochemical apparatus. FIG. 1.

There is provided a method of synthesizing a porous carbon-sulfur composite comprising the step of carbonizing a carbon material having a metal-organic framework (MOF) at a temperature of 800-1000° C. to produce a porous carbon, mixing and heating the porous carbon with sulfur to infuse the sulfur (melt diffusion) into the pores of the porous carbon and removing excess sulfur not infused into the pores or present on the surface of the porous carbon. There is also provided a cathode comprising the porous carbon-sulfur composite and a method of preparing the cathode by mixing with conductive carbon and a polymer binder. The cathode finds use in an electrochemical cell comprising a sodium or lithium anode.

A coating method has: a first step for mixing an active material, a binding agent, and a solvent, and obtaining a mixed slurry; a second step for adding an additive to the mixed slurry, stirring the mixed slurry and the additive, and obtaining a coating slurry and a third step for intermittently coating the coating slurry on a collector body, and forming a coated part and a non-coated part. In the second step, the addition amount of the additive is set in accordance with a preset coating speed of the coating slurry, or the weight of the coated part, and the additive includes castor oil, cellulose nanofibers, modified silicone, an amide, polyethylene oxide, propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate, polyamine, and/or polycarboxylic acid.

An electrode assembly having a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode is provided. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer located on a positive electrode current collector, and the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer located on a negative electrode current collector. A non-coated part is located at an edge of the negative electrode current collector. A disconnection preventing layer is located at the negative electrode current collector. The disconnection preventing layer extends from an external side of the non-coated part and is bent to overlap a portion of the non-coated part.

A method for forming a treated sintered composition includes: providing a slurry precursor including a lithium-, sodium-, or magnesium-based compound; tape casting the slurry precursor to form a green tape; sintering the green tape at a temperature in a range of 500° C. to 1350° C. for a time in a range of less than 60 min to form a sintered composition; and heat treating the sintered composition at a temperature in a range of 700° C. to 1100° C. for a time in a range of 1 min to 2 hrs in an oxygen-containing atmosphere to form the treated sintered composition.

A silicon-polymer composite anode having two or more different molecular weight (MW) versions of the same polymer, method of making the anode and electrochemical energy storage device containing the anode are disclosed.

The present invention relates to a binder composition for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, which is characterized by containing (A) polyvinyl alcohol, (B) at least one selected from a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and a neutralized salt of the copolymer and (C) at least one selected from an amino acid, a carboxylic acid-containing polymer and a polyamine; and a binder aqueous solution for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, a slurry composition for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, an electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, and a non-aqueous electrolyte battery, each containing the binder composition; and others.

The invention relates to a method for producing an electrochemical cell comprising at least one porous electrode (2′), the method comprising at least the following method steps: (a) providing an electrode composition in the form of a homogeneous mixture comprising (i) at least one particulate active material (3); (ii) at least one particulate binder (5); (iii) at least one particulate pore-forming agent (4); and (iv) optionally at least one conducting additive (6); (b) forming a mouldable mass from the electrode composition; (c) applying the electrode composition to at least one surface of a substrate (1) to obtain a compact electrode (2); (d) producing an electrochemical cell comprising at least one compact electrode (2) which comprises the electrode composition according to method step (a); and (e) heating the at least one compact electrode (2) to liquefy the at least one particulate pore-forming agent (4); and/or (f) bringing the compact electrode (2) into contact with at least one liquid electrolyte composition or at least one liquid constituent of an electrolyte composition for an electrochemical cell which is capable of at least partially dissolving the at least one particulate pore-forming agent (4) to obtain a porous electrode (2), wherein method steps (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) are carried out substantially without solvents.