Abstract:
A composite negative active material including a piezoelectric material; and a negative active material. Also a negative electrode including the composite negative active material, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode.
Abstract:
An all-solid secondary battery including: a cathode layer including a cathode active material; an anode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer including a solid electrolyte disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the anode layer includes an anode current collector, a first anode active material layer in contact with the solid electrolyte layer, and a second anode active material layer disposed between the anode current collector and the first anode active material layer, wherein the first anode active material layer includes a first metal and has a lithium-ion reduction potential greater than a reduction potential of the solid electrolyte, and wherein the second anode active material layer includes a second metal, and a solid solubility of lithium (Li) in the second metal is greater than a solid solubility of lithium in the first metal.
Abstract:
A composite negative active material including a piezoelectric material; and a negative active material. Also a negative electrode including the composite negative active material, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode.
Abstract:
An anode for a solid-state secondary battery, the anode including: a three-dimensional porous current collector including a plurality of pores having a lithiophilic property, and having a porosity of about 10 percent to about 99 percent, based on a total volume of the three-dimensional current collector, wherein pores of the plurality of the pores have a size and a pitch, and a ratio of the size to the pitch is about 0.1 to about 0.9; and a first anode active material layer disposed on a first side of the three-dimensional porous current collector, wherein the first anode active material layer is disposed in at least a portion of the pores of the three-dimensional porous current collector.
Abstract:
A composite cathode active material and a cathode and a lithium battery including the composite cathode active material. The composite cathode active material has a core including a plurality of primary particles including a nickel-containing first lithium transition metal oxide having a layered crystal structure; a grain boundary disposed between adjacent primary particles of the plurality of primary particles; and a shell on the core, the shell including a second lithium transition metal oxide having a spinel crystal structure, wherein the grain boundary includes a first composition having a spinel crystal structure.
Abstract:
A composite cathode active material and a cathode and a lithium battery including the composite cathode active material. The composite cathode active material has a core including a plurality of primary particles including a nickel-containing first lithium transition metal oxide having a layered crystal structure; a grain boundary disposed between adjacent primary particles of the plurality of primary particles; and a shell on the core, the shell including a second lithium transition metal oxide having a spinel crystal structure, wherein the grain boundary includes a first composition having a spinel crystal structure.
Abstract:
An all-solid secondary battery includes a cathode layer including a cathode active material layer; an anode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the anode layer includes an anode current collector and a first anode active material layer is disposed on the anode current collector, wherein the first anode active material layer includes an organic electrolyte and an anode active material that is capable of forming an alloy with lithium or a compound with lithium, and wherein the organic electrolyte includes an organic salt including an organic cation and an anion.
Abstract:
A composite cathode active material and a cathode and a lithium battery including the composite cathode active material. The composite cathode active material has a core including a plurality of primary particles including a nickel-containing first lithium transition metal oxide having a layered crystal structure; a grain boundary disposed between adjacent primary particles of the plurality of primary particles; and a shell on the core, the shell including a second lithium transition metal oxide having a spinel crystal structure, wherein the grain boundary includes a first composition having a spinel crystal structure.
Abstract:
A battery assembly including: at least one rechargeable lithium battery including a negative electrode including a silicon-containing negative active material selected from silicon, a silicon-carbon composite, and a combination thereof, and a positive electrode including a positive active material; a circuit board electrically connected to the battery assembly; and an outer terminal electrically connecting the battery assembly to an outer power or an outer load, wherein the circuit board includes a charge/discharge element for charging and discharging the battery assembly and a charge/discharge controller electrically connected to the battery assembly and the charge/discharge element, wherein the charge/discharge controller controls the charge and discharge of the battery assembly, and wherein a discharge cut-off voltage of the charge/discharge controller is predetermined as a voltage when LixSi present in the negative electrode during the discharge has an x value of less than or equal to about 1.25.
Abstract:
An in-situ coin cell includes a case, a cap coupled to the case, and an energy storage member disposed between the case and the cap, where a through hole is defined in at least one of the case and the cap, the energy storage member includes a current collector adjacent to the through hole, and another through hole is defined in the current collector. The in-situ coin cell may further include a transparent window between the current collector and at least one of the through holes.