Abstract:
For achievement of a novel electricity storage device excellent in charge and discharge velocity and in capacity density, and an electrode and a porous sheet for use in the same, an electricity storage device including an electrolyte layer, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode is provided, wherein the electrolyte layer is interposed between the electrodes, and wherein at least one of the electrodes is a porous film made from a solution having an electrically conductive polymer in a reduced state.
Abstract:
In order to achieve a novel power storage device having high-speed charge/discharge and a high capacity density, an electrode which is used in the power storage device, and a porous sheet, the present invention provides a power storage device which includes an electrolyte layer 3, and a positive electrode 2 and a negative electrode 4 that are arranged with the electrolyte layer 3 interposed therebetween, wherein at least one of the positive electrode 2 and the negative electrode 4 contains a self-doping electrically conductive polymer having a carboxylic acid group.
Abstract:
The invention provides a cathode sheet for use in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including a composite material comprising a collector and a layer of a cathode active material provided thereon. The layer of a cathode active material includes: (a) a conductive polymer and (b) at least one selected from a polycarboxylic acid and a metal salt of a polycarboxylic acid; and the conductive polymer is a polymer in a dedoped state or in a dedoped and reduced state. The polymer constituting the conductive polymer is at least one selected from polyaniline, a polyaniline derivative, polypyrrole, a polypyrrole derivative, and polythiophene; and the polycarboxylic acid is at least one selected from polyacrylic acid, polymethacrylic acid, polyvinylbenzoic acid, polyallylbenzoic acid, polymethallylbenzoic acid, polymaleic acid, polyfumaric acid, polyglutaminic acid, polyaspartic acid, alginic acid, carboxymethylcellulose, and a copolymer including repeating units of at least two of the polymers listed herein.
Abstract:
A power storage device including an electrolyte layer, and a positive electrode and a negative electrode provided, with the electrolyte layer interposed therebetween. At least one of the electrodes is a composite including at least a thiophene polymer (A) having electrical conductivity varied by ion insertion/desertion, and a polycarboxylic acid (B). The polycarboxylic acid (B) is fixed in the electrode. A high-performance power storage device having an excellent capacity density per active substance weight and excellent high-speed charge and discharge characteristics is provided.