Nec Corporation

Masahiro Suguro

Midori Shimura

Kazuaki Matsumoto

Daisuke Kawasaki

Yoko Hashizume

Kentaro Nakahara

Shigeyuki Iwasa

Jiro Iriyama

Yukiko Morioka

Masaharu Satoh

Yuki Kusachi

Kenji Kobayashi

Kaichiro Nakano

Shin Nakamura

Sadahiko Miura

Masaharu Satou

Sigeyuki Iwasa

Jirou Iriyama

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a secondary battery which comprises a negative electrode and a battery electrolyte liquid comprising a supporting salt and a non-aqueous electrolyte solvent; wherein the negative electrode is obtained by pre-forming a SEI coating film on a negative electrode structure which is formed by binding a negative electrode active substance comprising a metal (a). that can be alloyed with lithium, a metal oxide (b) that can absorb and desorb lithium ion and a carbon material (c) that can absorb and desorb lithium ion, to a negative electrode current collector with a negative electrode binder, and wherein the non-aqueous electrolyte solvent contains at least an ionic liquid.

Secondary battery and method for manufacturing same

An object of the present invention is to provide a high-capacity, long-life lithium secondary cell suppressing a reduction in capacity particularly with respect to use under a high-temperature environment, and having improved cycle properties. The lithium secondary cell comprises a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode active material layer containing a silicon-based material as a negative electrode active material, and an electrolytic solution in which the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer are immersed, the electrolytic solution contains one or more of specific cyclic acid anhydrides.

Lithium secondary cell including an electrolytic solution including cyclic acid anhydrides

The present invention relates to a secondary battery, comprising an electrode element in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are opposed to each other, and an electrolyte solution, wherein the negative electrode active material comprises a metal alloyable with lithium and/or a metal oxide capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium ions, and the electrolyte solution is a nonaqueous electrolyte solution comprising an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, and comprises a carbonyl compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein two Rs may be the same or different from each other, and each independently represents hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, cycloalkyl group, alkenyl group, alkynyl group, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group, oxyalkylene group, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, cycloalkyloxy group, alkenyloxy group, alkynyloxy group, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic oxy group, or oxyalkyleneoxy group.

Secondary battery

An objection is to provide a high performance secondary battery having good flame retardancy and cycle properties. The present exemplary embodiment provides a secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged to face each other, an electrolyte liquid and a package accommodating the electrode assembly and the electrolyte liquid, wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active substance comprising a metal (a) capable of being alloyed with lithium, a metal oxide (b) capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions and a carbon material (c) capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, to a negative electrode current collector, with a negative electrode binder, and the electrolyte liquid comprises a supporting salt and an electrolytic solvent, the electrolytic solvent comprising at least one phosphate ester compound selected from phosphite esters, phosphonate esters and bisphosphonate esters.

An object of the present invention is to provide a secondary battery in which the decomposition of an electrolyte liquid is suppressed and the generation of a gas is reduced, even in the case of using a laminate film as a package. The present exemplary embodiment is a secondary battery of a stacked laminate type comprising an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged to face each other, an electrolyte liquid, and a package accommodating the electrode assembly and the electrolyte liquid, wherein the negative electrode is made by binding a negative electrode active substance containing a metal (a) capable of being alloyed with lithium, a metal oxide (b) capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, and a carbon material (c) capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, to a negative electrode current collector, with at least one selected from polyimides and polyamideimides; and the electrolyte liquid comprises acrylonitrile or an acrylonitrile compound being an acrylonitrile derivative.

An object of the present invention is to provide a power storage device with excellent cycle property, employing a cathode containing a nitroxyl polymer. To attain the object in the present invention, in the power storage device employing a cathode comprising a nitroxyl polymer, a lithium or lithium alloy anode is used as an anode active material and the cathode is in direct contact with the anode.

Power storage device having a nitroxyl polymer in a cathode and a lithium or lithium alloy anode

The object is to provide a secondary battery with higher performance, and especially to provide a secondary battery having low impedance. An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a secondary battery, comprising an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are oppositely disposed, an electrolyte liquid, and a package which encloses the electrode assembly and the electrolyte liquid inside; wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active substance to a negative electrode collector with a negative electrode binder; and wherein the electrolyte liquid comprises a fluorine-containing cyclic ether compound.

Provided is a secondary battery having a good battery property at a high temperature. A secondary battery according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention comprises a negative electrode and an electrolyte liquid; wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active substance on a negative electrode collector with a negative electrode binder; and wherein the electrolyte liquid comprises a compound (A) having a C&#x2550;S bond. In this embodiment, the negative electrode active substance is formed by covering at least one of a metal (a) that can be alloyed with lithium and a metal oxide (b) that can absorb and desorb a lithium ion with a carbon material (c). Alternatively, the negative electrode active substance comprises a metal (a) that can be alloyed with lithium and the negative electrode binder negative electrode is a polyimide or a polyamide-imide.

Secondary battery and electrolyte solution for secondary battery to be used in same

A secondary battery having high capacity and satisfactory high-temperature cycle characteristics is provided. A secondary battery according to the exemplary embodiment has an electrode element in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged so as to face each other, an electrolytic solution and an outer package packaging the electrode element and the electrolytic solution, wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active material containing at least one of a metal (a) capable of forming an alloy with lithium and a metal oxide (b) capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions, to a negative electrode collector, with a polyimide or a polyamide-imide serving as a negative electrode binder; and the electrolytic solution contains a phosphazene compound.

The object of an exemplary embodiment of the invention is to provide a secondary battery with a high performance in which the generation of the swelling can be suppressed and in which the cycle property is excellent. An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a secondary battery, comprising an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are oppositely disposed, an electrolyte liquid, and a package which encloses the electrode assembly and the electrolyte liquid inside; wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active substance, which comprises metal (a) that can be alloyed with lithium, metal oxide (b) that can absorb and desorb lithium ion, and carbon material (c) that can absorb and desorb lithium ion, to a negative electrode collector with at least one selected from polyimides and a polyamide-imides; and wherein the electrolyte liquid comprises a compound represented by any one of predetermined formulae.

An object is to provide a higher-performance secondary battery, particularly to provide a secondary battery having a low impedance. The present exemplary embodiment is a secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged to face each other, an electrolyte liquid, and a package accommodating the electrode assembly and the electrolyte liquid, wherein the negative electrode includes a negative electrode active substance containing at least one selected from a metal (a) capable of being alloyed with lithium, and a metal oxide (b) capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, a negative electrode binder, and a negative electrode current collector; and the electrolyte liquid contains a sulfide compound.

A secondary battery capable of suppressing deterioration of rate characteristics and cycle characteristics even under a high-temperature environment is provided. The secondary battery according to an exemplary embodiment is a secondary battery having an electrode element in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged so as to face each other, an electrolytic solution and an outer package packaging the electrode element and the electrolytic solution, in which the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active material to a negative electrode collector, with a negative electrode binder; and the electrolytic solution contains an organic sulfurane compound. The secondary battery electrolytic solution according to the exemplary embodiment contains an organic sulfurane compound.

Secondary battery and secondary battery electrolytic solution for use in secondary battery

A photoelectric conversion element is provided which includes a semiconductor electrode () containing a semiconductor layer () and a dye, a counter electrode (), and an electrolyte layer () disposed between the semiconductor electrode () and the counter electrode () and in which the dye contains a compound expressed by General Formula 1. 

Photoelectric conversion element, manufacturing method thereof, optical sensor, and solar cell

Disclosed is a polyradical compound which can be used as an electrode active material for at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The polyradical compound has a repeating unit represented by general formula (1) and is crosslinked using a bifunctional crosslinking agent having two polymerizing groups in the molecule represented by general formula (2), wherein Rto Reach independently represent hydrogen or methyl group; Rto Reach independently represent C1 to C3 alkyl group; X represents single bond, linear, branched or cyclic C1 to C15 alkylenedioxy group, alkylene group, phenylenedioxy group, phenylene group or structure represented by general formula (3); and Rto Reach independently represent hydrogen or methyl group, and k represents an integer of 2 to 5. 

Process for producing polyradical compound and battery cell

There can be provided an energy storage device comprising a positive electrode comprising a nitroxyl compound having a nitroxyl cation partial structure in an oxidized state and having a nitroxyl radical partial structure in a reduced state; a negative electrode comprising a carbon material which lithium ions can be reversibly intercalated into and deintercalated from; and an electrolytic solution comprising a lithium salt and an aprotic organic solvent, wherein the negative electrode is a negative electrode comprising the carbon material which lithium ions are previously intercalated into, apart from lithium ions associated with a capacity A of lithium capable of being intercalated and deintercalated in charge and discharge, thereby allowing the energy storage device to simultaneously achieve high energy density, high output characteristics, low environmental load, and high stability in charge and discharge cycles.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Suguro