Abstract:
Provided are an electrode active material for a magnesium battery, including a complex transition metal oxide which is represented by a Formula 1 below and which includes λ-MnO2 phase having a cubic structure at a percentage of 60% or higher, an electrode and a magnesium battery including the same, and a method of preparing the electrode active material for a magnesium battery: MxMnyOz In the Formula 1, 0
Abstract:
An electrolyte including a block copolymer containing a co-continuous domain including an ion conductive phase and a structural phase, wherein the structural phase includes a polymer segment having a glass transition temperature that is equal to or lower than room temperature.
Abstract:
A negative electrode for a lithium battery, including a lithium metal; and a protective layer disposed on at least a part of the lithium metal, wherein the protective layer includes a block copolymer including a structural domain and a hard domain covalently linked to the structural domain, wherein the structural domain includes a structural block of the block copolymer, wherein the hard domain includes a hard block of the block polymer, wherein the structural block includes a plurality of structural repeating units, and wherein the hard block includes a plurality of olefin repeating units.
Abstract:
A composite electrolyte structure includes: a protective layer having a Young's modulus of about 106 pascals or greater and including a first particle, the first particle including an organic particle, an inorganic particle, an organic-inorganic particle, or a combination thereof, wherein the particle in the protective layer has a particle size of greater than 1 micrometer to about 100 micrometers, and a solid electrolyte layer including a second particle including an organic particle, an inorganic particle, an organic-inorganic particle, or a combination thereof, wherein the second particle has a particle size of greater than 1 micrometer to about 100 micrometers, wherein the first particle and the second particle are the same or different, and wherein the protective layer is on the solid electrolyte layer.
Abstract:
A negative electrode for a lithium metal battery including: a lithium metal electrode including a lithium metal or a lithium metal alloy; and a protective layer on at least portion of the lithium metal electrode, wherein the protective layer has a Young's modulus of about 106 pascals or greater and includes at least one particle having a particle size of greater than 1 micrometer to about 100 micrometers, and wherein the at least one particle include an organic particle, an inorganic particle, an organic-inorganic particle, or a combination thereof.
Abstract:
A composite electrolyte including a lithium salt; a solid electrolyte wherein the solid electrolyte is a sulfide solid electrolyte, an oxide solid electrolyte, or a combination thereof; and an ionic liquid, wherein a mixture of the ionic liquid and the lithium salt has a dielectric constant of from about 4 to about 12, and an amount of halogen ions eluted from the composite electrolyte after immersion of the solid electrolyte in the ionic liquid for 24 hours is less than about 25 parts per million by weight, based on the total weight of the composite electrolyte, as measured by ion chromatography.
Abstract:
An electrolyte for a secondary battery, the electrolyte including an ionic liquid polymer including a repeating unit represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, CY, R1, R2, R3, X1−, n, and m are the same as described in the specification.
Abstract:
The all-solid battery includes: a cathode layer including a cathode active material layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer that is disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and includes a solid electrolyte, wherein the anode layer includes a porous anode current collector; a first anode active material layer including a first metal and a carbonaceous anode active material disposed on the porous anode current collector; a conformal coating layer including a second metal disposed on the first anode active material layer, wherein the conformal coating layer of the anode layer is between the first anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer, and a surface roughness of the solid electrolyte layer, proximate to the conformal coating layer, is about 2 micrometers or less.
Abstract:
A composite membrane for a secondary battery, including: a nanostructure including a cross-linked polymer including a repeating unit represented by Formula 1 and a unit derived from a crosslinking compound: wherein, in Formula 1, Ar1, R1 to R3, A, and Y− are the same as described in the specification.