Provided is a post-treatment method of a lithium secondary battery including: an activation step of charging a heated lithium secondary battery to an activation voltage and maintaining the battery at the voltage, in a state in which the lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode including a nickel-rich (Ni-rich) lithium-transition metal composite oxide having a layered structure containing 0.8 moles or more of Ni based on a total of 1 mole of transition metals as a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode; a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and an electrolyte solution, which are built in a battery case, is heated, the activation voltage being equal to or higher than a voltage generating phase transition of the lithium-transition metal composite oxide.

Disclosed is an anodeless-type all-solid-state battery. The all-solid-state battery includes a plurality of recesses formed in an electrolyte layer and to be depressed from a surface of the electrolyte layer contacting an anode collector and thus serve as spaces for lithium to reversibly precipitate.

Disclosed is an electrode lead gripper for a pressure activation device, and, in particular, an electrode lead gripper for a pressure activation device in which a current electrode terminal is configured to be stacked and mounted onto an electrode terminal base separately from a voltage electrode terminal and thus improved in contact reliability and increased in contact area in terms of contact with an electrode lead of a pouch type battery cell, thereby having advantages of decreasing contact resistance, reducing the amount of heat generated during charging/discharging, and resulting in further enhancing a charging/discharging efficiency.

Methods for activating a secondary battery are provided, as well as methods for manufacturing a secondary battery, which include: providing a secondary battery including an electrode assembly and an electrolyte solution in a battery case, pre-aging the secondary battery at room temperature to provide a pre-aged secondary battery; initially charging the pre-aged secondary battery to provide an initially-charged secondary battery; aging the initially-charged secondary battery at room temperature to provide a room-temperature-aged secondary battery; fully charging the room-temperature-aged secondary battery to a voltage of 4.4V or more to provide a fully-charged secondary battery; and degassing the charged secondary battery to remove gas inside the fully-charged secondary battery. According to these methods, it is possible to increase the remaining amount of an electrolyte solution inside an electrode by fully charging a secondary battery.

Various implementations of a method of forming an electrochemical cell include providing a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator between the first and second electrodes, and an electrolyte in a cell container. The first electrode can include silicon-dominant electrochemically active material. The silicon-dominant electrochemically active material can include greater than 50% silicon by weight. The method can also include exposing at least a part of the electrochemical cell to CO.sub.2, and forming a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer on the first electrode using the CO.sub.2.

Electrochemical device for storing electrical energy in rectangular geometric cells, narrow stack geometry, according to the above claims wherein for being built from a sturdy housing (4) in the form of a straight rectangular parallelepiped and where hollow metal rods (5) run on the metal substrate (14) of the base (1) and through the through holes (16) of the base (16) and through the through holes (16) of it run hollow metal rods (5) and on each one of them, the positive electrode is inserted followed by a separating element and so on, while the other hollow metal bar (5) is inserted the negative electrode, followed by a separating element and so on forming a “stack” of electrodes (6) which would fit into the base (1) forming the central structure of the device, with the hollow metal rods (5) serving as current collectors. The rectangular narrow stack geometry electrode (6) allows to carry out the pre-metallisation stage necessary to create the SEI, and the subsequent cycle stage in the same device, without reopening it.

The present invention relates to a solid electrolyte interphase composition having a F:CF.sub.3 mol-ratio (x) of 0.00<x≤12.00; a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode material and a solid electrolyte interphase composition on a surface of said negative electrode material, wherein said solid electrolyte interphase composition has a molar ratio F:CF.sub.3 (x) of 0.00<x≤12.00, as determined by XPS; as well as its application in a lithium secondary battery cell.

A secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a secondary battery including a cathode in which a cathode material is applied onto a cathode current collector, wherein the cathode material includes an irreversible additive and a cathode active material, and the irreversible additive includes lithium nickel oxide (LNO) having a trigonal crystal structure within an operating range from 3.0 V or more to 4.0 V or less in the secondary battery.

A method of forming an active material for a positive electrode of a lithium-ion battery includes quenching a powder of the active material in water. The active material may include layered lithium rich nickel manganese oxide.

A method of producing a lithium-ion battery includes filling at least one cell of the battery with an electrolyte followed directly with a first step of sealing the at least one cell and a second step of applying pulsating compression to the at least one cell during formation charging, the pulsating compression comprising alternating a first time period of applying a first compression force F.sub.1 greater than zero and a second time period of applying a second compression force F.sub.2, wherein F.sub.1 > F.sub.2, and the formation charging includes a first charge of the battery.