Patent ID: 8877373
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: H01M,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery, comprising: a current collector; and an active material layer on the current collector, wherein the active material layer comprises an active material adapted to reversibly intercalate and deintercalate lithium ions, a binder, and a pore-forming polymer, and wherein the pore-forming polymer comprises a material selected from the group consisting of polyalkylene carbonate, polyalkylsiloxane, copolymers thereof, and mixtures thereof, and wherein the binder is present in an amount of about 0.1 to about 20 wt % based on the total weight of the active material layer, and the pore-forming polymer is present in an amount ranging from about 5 to about 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the binder.