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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a secondary battery which allows the increase in a load characteristic.SOLUTION: The positive electrode comprises a lithium-rich lithium-containing compound having a layered rock salt type crystal structure. The product SD of a specific surface area S(m/g) of the lithium-containing compound and a crystallite diameter D(μm) thereof is 1.4×10m/g or larger.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a secondary battery that hardly allows an active material layer to peel off and offers excellent battery characteristics.SOLUTION: The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution, and the positive electrode includes a positive electrode collector and a positive electrode active material layer provided thereon. The positive electrode active material layer contains a globular active material that is in the form of secondary particles and disposed near to the positive electrode collector, and a flat-particle active material that is in the form of secondary particles and disposed far from the positive electrode collector. The median diameter (D50) of the primary particles of the globular active material is greater than the median diameter (D50) of the primary particles of the flat-particle active material.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a secondary cell capable of achieving excellent battery characteristics.SOLUTION: The secondary cell includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode as well as electrolyte. The positive electrode contains lithium transition metal complex compound having lithium, one or at least two transition metals, magnesium and oxygen as a constituent element. In a standardized X-ray absorption spectrum of the lithium transition metal complex compound measured by the X-ray absorption spectrometry, a first absorption edge having absorption edge energy E1 in an X-ray absorption intensity of 0.5 exists within a range of X-ray energy of 1303 to 1313 eV under a discharge state of a discharge voltage of 3.0 V. A second absorption edge having absorption edge energy E2 in an X-ray absorption intensity of 0.5 exists under a charge state of a charge voltage of 4.3 to 4.5 V. The absorption edge energy E1, E2 and the charge voltage V satisfies the relationship: E2-E1≥(V-4.25)×4.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithium ion secondary battery achieving excellent input-output characteristics of lithium ions.SOLUTION: An active material capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions is composed of a Li-containing complex oxide or a Li-containing complex oxoacid salt. A plurality of primary particles has a size distribution satisfying 1 nm
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithium ion secondary battery capable of obtaining excellent battery capacity characteristics and cycle characteristics.SOLUTION: A negative electrode active material layer 22B of a negative electrode 22 contains, as a negative electrode active material, a material containing at least one of Si and Sn as a constituent element. A positive electrode active material layer 21B of a positive electrode 21 contains a lithium composite oxide as a positive electrode active material. This lithium composite oxide contains, as the constituent elements, lithium (composition ratio=a), a first element (composition ratio=b) containing two or more kinds of manganese, nickel and cobalt including at least manganese, and a second element (composition ratio=c) containing at least one kind of aluminum, titanium, magnesium and boron. The composition ratios a to c satisfy 1.1 b+c.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery capable of improving energy density and battery characteristics, such as cycle characteristics and high temperature storage characteristics.SOLUTION: In the battery, a positive electrode 21 and a negative electrode 22 are arranged to oppose each other with a separator 23 interposed therebetween, and an open circuit voltage in a completely charged state is in a range of from 4.25 V or more to 6.00 V or less. The separator 23 has a base material layer 23A and a surface layer 23B, and the surface layer 23B opposing to the positive electrode 21 is formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of polyvinylidene fluoride, polytetrafluoroethylene, polypropylene and aramid.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lithium positive electrode active material and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery wherein superior cycle characteristics and high temperature storage characteristics can be obtained while suppressing lowering in discharge capacity. SOLUTION: The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is equipped with a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes: lithium; the main transition metal M1; and particles of lithium transition metal complex oxide to contain a metal element M2 different from the main transition metal M1. The metal element M2 has a concentration gradient from the particle center toward a particle surface. A ratio d(%) from the particle surface to a prescribed depth (=[(mass of main transition metal M1)+(mass of metal element M2)]/(particle all mass)) is a mol fraction r (=(material amount of metal element M2)/[(material amount of main transition metal M1)+(material amount of metal element M2)]) is within a range of 0.20≤r≤0.80 within a range to satisfy 0.020%≤d≤0.050%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positive-electrode active material having high capacity, superior capacity for charging/discharging cycle, and at the same time, with less degradation, when under high-temperature atmosphere. SOLUTION: The positive-electrode active material is used with a composition such that at least one of sulfur (S), phosphorus (P), and fluorine (F) exists in the aggregate on the surface of a complex-oxide particle containing transition metal and metallic element M; and that the metallic element M has concentration gradient getting concentrated toward the surface from the center of the complex-oxide particle. The positive-electrode active material having such a composition can be constituted, by preliminarily mixing and burning the compound containing lithium, the compound containing the transition metal, and the compound containing the metallic element M; by depositing the compound containing at least one of sulfur (S), phosphorus (P) and fluorine (F) on the surface of the complex-oxide particle; and by burning it again. It is preferable that the compound or its thermolysis product have a melting point of ≥70°C and ≤600°C. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positive electrode active material capable of suppressing gas generation, and to provide a method for manufacturing the positive electrode active material, and a nonaqueous electrolyte battery. SOLUTION: A positive electrode 13 has the positive electrode active material, and the positive electrode active material has a lithium complex oxide particle containing nickel as a main component, and a coating layer formed on at least part of the surface of the lithium complex oxide particle. The coating layer contains an oxo acid and/or an oxo acid compound, and an acidity of the surface of the lithium complex oxide particle is increased by the coating layer to a determined acidity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide: a positive electrode active material having a high capacity, with superior charge and discharge cycle characteristics, and capable of suppressing the occurrence of gas; a positive electrode using this; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. SOLUTION: The positive electrode 21 has a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material has: lithium transition metal compound oxide particles containing lithium and a transition metal as a constituent element; and a covering layer provided at least on part of the surface of the lithium transition metal compound oxide particles. Manganese (Mn) is included at least in the covering layer, and in the absolute value of a radius vector structure function obtained by Fourier transforming an extensive X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) multiplying cube of the cycle of a photoelectron at MnK absorption end, the ratio of a second proximity peak intensity near 5.2 Å to the first proximity peak intensity near 1.5 Å is 0.3 or more. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT