Patent ID: 8142918

Claim:
A lithium battery comprising a housing and within the housing: (a) an anode comprising lithium; (b) a cathode comprising a cathode current collector and a uniform coating on the cathode current collector comprising iron disulfide, residual hydrocarbon and/or paraffinic solvent, and a binder selected from the group consisting of linear di- and tri-block copolymers, linear tri-block copolymers cross-linked with melamine resin, ethylene-propylene copolymers, ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymers, tri-block fluorinated thermoplastics, hydrogenated nitrile rubbers, fluoro-ethylene-vinyl ether copolymers, thermoplastic polyurethanes, thermoplastic olefins, and polyvinylidene fluoride homopolymers; (c) an electrolyte comprising dimethoxyethane, dioxolane, and lithium iodide.