Sony Corporation

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Kazuaki Endoh

Yosuke Hosoya

Guohua Li

Kazunari Motohashi

Kenichi Kawase

Masaharu Senoue

Akira Takamuku

Koji Morita

Satoshi Fujiki

Naoki Hayashi

Hironobu Tsuji

A positive electrode contains a first active material and a second active material. The first active material and the second active material each contain a lithium composite oxide containing at least manganese (Mn), nickel (Ni), and cobalt (Co) as transition metals. The first active material has a particulate shape. An average porosity V1 in a particle of the first active material satisfies 10[%]&#x2264;V1&#x2264;30[%]. An average particle diameter D1 of the first active material satisfies 6 [&#x3bc;m]&#x2264;D1&#x2264;20 [&#x3bc;m]. The second active material has a particulate shape. An average porosity V2 in a particle of the second active material satisfies 0[%]&#x2264;V2&#x2264;10[%]. An average particle diameter D2 of the second active material satisfies 1 [&#x3bc;m]&#x2264;D2&#x2264;6 [&#x3bc;m].

Positive electrode, battery, battery pack, electronic device, electric vehicle, electricity storage device, and electric power system

A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode contains a lithium composite oxide. The negative electrode contains a material including at least one of silicon Si and tin Sn as a constituent element. The lithium composite oxide includes lithium Li having a composition ratio a, a first element having a composition ratio b, and a second element having a composition ratio c as a constituent element. The first element including two kinds or more selected from among manganese Mn, nickel Ni, and cobalt Co, and including at least manganese. The second element including at least one kind selected from among aluminum Al, titanium Ti, magnesium Mg, and boron B. The composition ratios a to c satisfy the relationships of 1.1&#x3c;a&#x3c;1.3, 0.7&#x3c;b+c&#x3c;1.1, 0&#x3c;c&#x3c;0.1, and a&#x3e;b+c.

Lithium ion secondary battery, electric tool, electric vehicle, and power storage system

A lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material including element M2 incorporated in a crystal structure in a surface layer area of a complex oxide, the oxide including the element M1 and being represented by the following formula (1), M2 being different from M1. The element M2 is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of magnesium Mg, calcium Ca, titanium Ti, zirconium Zr, sulfur S, fluorine F, iron Fe, copper Cu, boron B, aluminum Al, phosphorus P, carbon C, manganese Mn, nickel Ni, and cobalt Co.Li(MnCoNi)M1O&#x2003;&#x2003;(1) M1 is at least one kind of aluminum, magnesium, zirconium, titanium, barium Ba, boron, silicon Si, and iron, a satisfies 0&#x3c;a&#x3c;0.25, b satisfies 0.5&#x2266;b&#x3c;0.7, c satisfies 0&#x2266;c&#x3c;1&#x2212;b, d satisfies 0.01&#x2266;d&#x2266;0.2, and e satisfies 0&#x2266;e&#x2266;1.

Lithium secondary battery, positive electrode active material, positive electrode, electric tool, electric vehicle, and power storage system

A cathode active material is a lithium-rich lithium-containing compound having a bedded salt-type crystal structure. A product SD of a specific surface area S in square meters per gram and a crystallite diameter D in micrometer is equal to or more than about 1.4&#xd7;10cubic meters per gram.

Cathode active material, cathode, secondary battery, battery pack, electric vehicle, electric power storage system, electric power tool, and electronic apparatus

An active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes first particles and second particles provided to coat the first particles so as to be scattered on the surfaces of the first particles. The circularity of the first particles coated with the second particles is 0.800 to 0.950, and the ratio r1/r2 of the average particle diameter r1 of the second particles to the average particle diameter r2 of the first particles is 1/20 to 1/2.

Active material, battery, and method for manufacturing electrode

Disclosed herein is a positive electrode active material prepared by mixing a lithium-containing compound, a compound containing a transition metal to be put into a solid solution, and a compound containing a metallic element M2 different from the transition metal, and firing the mixture to form composite oxide particles, depositing a compound containing at least one element selected from among sulfur (S), phosphorus (P) and fluorine (F) on surfaces of the particles, and firing the particles, whereby each of the particles is provided with a concentration gradient such that the concentration of the metallic element M2 increases from the center toward the surface of the particle, and at least one element selected from among (S), (P) and (F) is made present in the form of being aggregated at the surfaces of the composite oxide particles.

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