A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics even if the thickness of an anode active material layer is increased is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode and an electrolytic solution. The anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, and the anode active material layer contains a carbon material and has a thickness of 30 μm or more. The electrolytic solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt, and the solvent contains at least one of sulfone compounds such as a cyclic disulfonic acid anhydride.
1. A battery comprising:
a cathode;
an anode; and
an electrolytic solution,
wherein the anode has an anode active material layer on an anode current collector, and the anode active material layer contains a carbon material and has a thickness of 30 μm or more, and
the electrolytic solution contains a solvent and an electrolyte salt, and the solvent contains sulfone compounds shown in Chemical formula 1;
where R1 represents C m H 2m-n X n , and X represents a halogen; m represents one of integer numbers of from 2 to 4; and n represents one of integer numbers of from 0 to 2 m.
2. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the sulfone compound shown in Chemical formula 1 is at least one of compounds shown in Chemical formula 3 and Chemical formula 4;
3. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein a content of the sulfone compounds shown in Chemical formula 1 in the solvent is in the range from 0.05 wt % to 2 wt %.
4. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon material is graphite.
5. The battery according to claim 4 , wherein the graphite is an artificial graphite.
6. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer has a thickness of 100 μm or less.
7. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material layer has a volume density in the range from 1.60 g/cm 3 to 1.95 g/cm 3 .
8. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the solvent contains a cyclic ester carbonate having a halogen shown in Chemical formula 6;
where R11, R12, R13, and R14 represent a hydrogen group, a halogen group, an alkyl group, or an alkyl halide group; and at least one thereof is the halogen group or the alkyl halide group.
9. The battery according to claim 8 , wherein the cyclic ester carbonate having a halogen shown in Chemical formula 6 is at least one of 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one and 4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxolane-2-one.
10. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the electrolyte salt contains lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF 6 ) and lithium tetrafluoroborate (LiBF 4 ).
11. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein a content of the sulfone compounds shown in Chemical formula 1 in the solvent is in the range from 0.05 wt % to 5 wt %.
12. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein a content of the electrolyte salt in the solvent is in the range from 0.3 mol/kg to 3.0 mol/kg.
13. The battery according to claim 4 , wherein the graphite has a lattice spacing d 002 in the C-axis direction measured by X-ray diffraction method of 0.340 nm or less.