Nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery and method of producing anode material thereof

1. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising:

a positive electrode made of a graphitic material,

an electrolyte containing a lithium salt; and

a negative electrode made of a carbonaceous material capable of occluding and releasing lithium metal or lithium,

wherein said positive electrode is an graphitic material that has not been introduced with a conductor, the graphitic material is a graphite crystal having some of carbon atoms forming hexagonal network planes replaced by boron atoms or having boron atoms infiltrated into between layers of hexagonal network planes, and said positive electrode is formed from boron or a boron compound contained in the graphite, such that the content of boron therein is 0.05-11 wt %.

2. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery as defined in claim 1 , wherein the positive electrode is formed from a silicon-containing graphitic material containing silicon or a silicon compound such that the content of silicon therein is 0.01-5 wt %.

3. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery defined in any of claims 1 and 2 , wherein the graphitic material meets the following requirements (a) and (b):

(a) the graphitic material having a graphite crystal structure has the (002) plane such that the average interplaner spacing d(002) is no larger than 3.365 Å;

(b) Raman spectroscopy with an argon ion laser beam having a wavelength of 5145 Å gives a peak (Pa) in the wavelength region of 1580±100 cm −1 and a peak (Pb) in the wavelength region of 1360±100 cm −1 , with the peak (Pa) having a peak intensity (Ia) and the peak (Pb) having a peak intensity (Ib) such that the value of R defined as Value (R)=Ib/Ia is no smaller than 0.35.