Patent ID: 8003257

Claim:
An anode for lithium secondary battery comprising anode active material which can occlude (i.e., absorb and store) and discharge lithium, electroconductive carbon material and binder, wherein the anode active material is a graphite material which uses natural graphite or artificial graphite having d(002), a planar spacing between (002) faces, of from 0.335 to 0.337 nm in the graphite structure as measured by powder X-ray diffraction method, wherein the electroconductive carbon material is vapor grown carbon fiber which has an average fiber diameter of 1 to 200 nm with a structure having a hollow space inside each fiber and has a structure where graphene sheets are laminated vertically against the length direction of the fiber and d(002), a planar spacing between (002) faces is from 0.336 to 0.345 nm in the graphite structure as measured by powder X-ray diffraction method, and wherein the vapor grown carbon fiber is contained at an amount of 0.1 to 10 mass % based on the total mass of the anode without forming an agglomerate of 10 μm or larger.