Hitachi, Ltd.

Tohoku University

Jun Kawaji

Shuichi Suzuki

Yoshiyuki Takamori

Makoto Morishima

Atsushi Iijima

Tadashi Fujieda

Osamu Kubota

Akihide Tanaka

Taigo Onodera

Itaru Honma

Takahiro Yamaki

Suguru Ueda

Atsuhiko Onuma

Erina Yokoyama

Yoshiyuki Ganbe

Atsushi Unemoto

Nobuto Oka

Provided is a semisolid electrolyte solution to improve a battery capacity of a secondary battery. The semisolid electrolyte solution includes: a solvated electrolyte salt; and an ether-based solvent that constitutes the solvated electrolyte salt and a solvated ion liquid, in which a mixing ratio of the ether-based solvent to the solvated electrolyte salt is larger than 0 and equal to or less than 0.5 in terms of a molar ratio. Desirably, the mixing ratio of the ether-based solvent to the solvated electrolyte salt is 0.2 to 0.5 in terms of the molar ratio. When a low viscosity solvent is provided, a mixing ratio of the low viscosity solvent to the solvated electrolyte salt is 2 to 6 in terms of the molar ratio.

Semisolid electrolyte solution, semisolid electrolyte, semisolid electrolyte layer, electrode, and secondary battery

It is an objective of the invention to provide a quasi-solid state electrolyte that has a well-balanced combination of contact performance with electrode active materials, conductivity, and chemical and structural stability, each at a high level, and an all solid state lithium secondary battery using the quasi-solid state electrolyte. There is provided a quasi-solid state electrolyte comprising: metal oxide particles; and an ionic conductor, the ionic conductor being a mixture of either a glyme or DEME-TFSI and a lithium salt that includes LiFSI, and being carried by the metal oxide particles.

Quasi-solid state electrolyte and all solid state lithium secondary battery using same

Disclosed herein is a method for producing an electrode includes a step of reducing lithium-vanadium oxide by heating in reducing gas, a step of causing the reduced lithium-vanadium oxide to deliquesce, a step of mixing the deliquesced lithium oxide with an active material so as to prepare an electrode mixture, and a step of making the electrode mixture into an electrode by virtue of molding after heat treatment to the electrode mixture. The method for producing an all-solid battery further includes a step of bonding the thus-made electrode to a solid electrode layer in such a way that the solid electrode layer is interposed between the electrode and either of cathode and anode to be paired with the electrode.

Method for producing electrodes for all-solid battery and method for producing all-solid battery

In a Li ion conductivity oxide solid electrolyte containing lithium, lanthanum, and zirconium, a part of oxygen is substituted by an element M (M=N, Cl, S, Se, or Te) having smaller electronegativity than oxygen.

Solid electrolyte and all-solid state lithium ion secondary battery

The present invention provides a method of preventing liquid fuel that has penetrated from an anode from reaching a cathode and of effectively utilizing a cathode catalyst, which provides a membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell having high output density. In a membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell including an anode formed of a catalyst and a solid polymer electrolyte, a cathode formed of a catalyst and a solid polymer electrolyte, and a solid polymer electrolyte membrane formed between the anode and the cathode, an intermediate layer is formed between the cathode and the electrolyte membrane.

Membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell

Disclosed is a fuel cell in which a membrane electrode assembly less undergoes increase in ion conduction resistance, and a polymer electrolyte membrane less undergoes deterioration. Specifically, the polymer electrolyte membrane includes a first membrane and a second membrane being two different membranes composed of polymer electrolytes having different ion-exchange capacities, in which the first membrane has an area of one surface thereof equal to or larger than an area of one surface of an anode or a cathode, and the second membrane has an area of one surface thereof smaller than that of the first membrane and is arranged in a gas inflow region on a side being in contact with the cathode. The second membrane has an ion-exchange capacity smaller than that of the first membrane or has a number-average molecular weight larger than that of the first membrane.

Polymer electrolyte membrane, and membrane electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell using the same

The membrane electrode assembly includes an anode including a catalyst and a solid polymer electrolyte; a cathode including a catalyst and a solid polymer electrolyte; a solid polymer electrolyte membrane interposed between the anode and the cathode; an anode gas diffusion layer; and a cathode gas diffusion layer, a set composed of the anode, the cathode and the solid polymer electrolyte membrane being interposed between the anode gas diffusion layer and the cathode gas diffusion layer, wherein the cathode gas diffusion layer contains an oxidation catalyst and a water-repellent resin.

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Jun Kawaji