Sony Corporation

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Sony Corpotation

Sony Corportion

Takakazu Hirose

Kenichi Kawase

Masayuki Iwama

Isamu Konishiike

Takashi Fujinaga

Koichi Matsumoto

Hideki Nakai

Takayuki Fujii

Tadahiko Kubota

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Kazunori Noguchi

Isao Koizumi

Toshio Nishi

Hiroshi Horiuchi

Shinji Tanaka

Shunsuke Kurasawa

Akira Takamuku

Tomoo Takada

Masaharu Senoue

Nozomu Morita

Rikako Imoto

Motoki Endo

Masayuki Ihara

Kotaro Satori

Yukiko Iijima

Kensuke Yamamoto

Norihiro Shimoi

A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics and the initial charge and discharge characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains a crystalline anode active material having silicon as an element, and is linked to the anode current collector.

Method for forming anode having silicon active material linked to current collector

A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes an anode active material layer containing an anode active material having silicon as an element, and a coating layer that coats the anode active material layer, and contains an oxide of a 3d transition metal element at least one selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, and nickel.

Anode and battery

A battery including an anode with an anode active material layer that includes anode active material particles made of an anode active material including at least one of silicon and tin as an element. An oxide-containing film including an oxide of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium and tin is formed in a region of the surface of each anode active material particle in contact with an electrolytic solution by a liquid-phase method such as a liquid-phase deposition method. The region in contact with the electrolytic solution of the surface of each anode active material particle is covered with the oxide-containing film. The thickness of the oxide-containing film is preferably within a range from 0.1 nm to 500 nm both inclusive.

Battery with anode active material with oxide coating on active particles

A battery is provided including a positive electrode; a negative electrode including a first negative electrode active material; and an electrolytic solution, wherein the first negative electrode active material includes a core portion having a core portion surface, wherein the core portion has a median diameter of 0.3 &#x3bc;m to 20 &#x3bc;m, and a covering portion that covers at least part of the core portion surface, wherein the covering portion comprises at least Si, O and at least of one element M1 selected from Li, carbon (C), Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ge, Zr, Mo, Ag, Sn, Ba, W, Ta, Na, and K.

Battery, negative electrode active material, and electric tool

An anode capable of preventing expansion of an anode active material layer and a battery using it are provided. The anode includes an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer containing silicon (Si) as an element, wherein the anode active material layer therein contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a fluoride of an alkali metal and a fluoride of an alkali earth metal.

A secondary battery capable of obtaining superior cycle characteristics and superior swollenness characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode and an anode capable of inserting and extracting an electrode reactant; and an electrolyte containing a solvent and an electrolyte salt. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector. The anode active material layer contains a plurality of crystalline anode active material particles having silicon (Si) as an element. The plurality of anode active material particles contain a spherical particle and a nonspherical particle.

Secondary battery and anode

A lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode containing an active material, and an electrolytic solution, in which the active material contains, as constituent elements, Si, O, and at least one element M1 selected from Li, C, Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ge, Zr, Mo, Ag, Sn, Ba, W, Ta, Na, and K, and the atomic ratio x (O/Si) of O to Si is 0.5&#x2266;x&#x2266;1.8.

Lithium-ion secondary battery, negative electrode for lithium-ion secondary battery, battery pack, electric vehicle, power storage system, electric tool, and electronic device

A secondary battery includes: a cathode; an anode including an active material; and an electrolytic solution, wherein the active material includes a central section and a covering section provided on a surface of the central section, the central section includes silicon (Si) as a constituent element, the covering section includes carbon (C) and hydrogen (H) as constituent elements, and one or more of positive ions represented by CxHy (x and y satisfy 2&#x2266;x&#x2266;6 and 3&#x2266;y&#x2266;9) are detected by positive ion analysis of the covering section with the use of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry.

Active material, electrode, secondary battery, battery pack, electric vehicle, electric power storage system, electric power tool, and electronic apparatus

A rechargeable battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode including active material; and an electrolytic solution, in which the active material is capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions and includes Si and O as constituent elements, and an atomic ratio (Si/(Si+O)) of Si with respect to Si and O is 30 atomic % to 75 atomic % in a surface of the active material.

Active material for rechargeable battery, rechargeable battery, and electronic apparatus

A battery capable of improving cycle characteristics is provided. An anode includes: an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer arranged on the anode current collector, in which the anode active material layer includes an anode active material including silicon (Si), and including a pore group with a diameter ranging from 3 nm to 50 nm both inclusive, and the volumetric capacity per unit weight of silicon of the pore group with a diameter ranging from 3 nm to 50 nm both inclusive is 0.2 cm/g or less, the volumetric capacity being measured by mercury porosimetry using a mercury porosimeter.

Anode and secondary battery with anode material with pore group with low volumetric capacity

A secondary battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution is impregnated in a separator provided between the cathode and the anode. The anode has an anode structure on an anode current collector. The anode structure has a structure in which a plurality of anode active material particles having silicon are held by a plurality of metal fibers forming a three-dimensional network structure. Due to the plurality of metal fibers, sufficient conductive paths are obtained among the plurality of anode active material particles. Thus, compared to a general anode in which an active material layer is provided on a current collector made of a metal foil or the like, the current collectivity is improved.

Anode and secondary battery

Battery anode active material with fluorine resin coating. A terminal of the fluorine resin is a hydroxyl group or the like capable of being fixed (for example, being absorbed or bound) on the surface of the anode active material layer (anode active material).

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Takakazu Hirose