Samsung Sdi Co., Inc.

Min-Sook Sung

Sung-soo Kim

Sang-Min Lee

Wan-Uk Choi

Goo-Jin Jeong

Yong-Mook Kang

Negative active materials for rechargeable lithium batteries are provided. One negative active material includes a metal matrix, and an intermetallic compound including a Si active metal and an additive metal dispersed in the metal matrix. The additive metal may be Ca, Mg, Na, K, Sr, Rb, Ba, Cs, or a combination thereof. The metal matrix may comprise Cu and Al. The negative active material may comprise a X(aM-bSi)&#x2014;Y(cCu-dAl) material, where X is from about 30 to about 70 wt %, Y is from about 30 to about 70 wt %, X+Y is 100 wt %, a+b is 100 wt %, a is from about 20 to 80 wt %, b is from about 20 to 80 wt %, c+d is 100 wt %, c is from about 80 to about 95 wt %, d is from about 5 to about 20 wt %, and M may be Ca, Mg, Na, K, Sr, Rb, Ba, Cs, or a combination thereof.

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Min-Sook Sung