Battery active material layer with conductive active material particles

Abstract

A cathode active material layer includes conductive active material particles individually with a core and a coating on a surface of the core, wherein the core comprises a cathode active material, and the coating comprises an electrically conductive material; and a binder including fibers that form a three-dimensionally networked mesh of fibers. The cathode active material layer is free or substantially free of electrically conductive particles other than the conductive active material particles. The conductive active material particles are accommodated in the 3D mesh of the binder, and adjacent ones of the conductive active material particles abut one another within the 3D mesh, in which the electrically conductive material of the coating of one of the conductive active material particles makes at least one contact with the electrically conductive material of the coating of one or more adjacent ones of the conductive active material particles.