An active material bulk is produced by the production method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and sliced to produce an active material film adhered a current collector, thereby controlling an orientation in a thickness direction of the active material film (oriented direction of the electrode active material particles), along the cutting direction in which the active material bulk having an orientation of the electrode active material is sliced.
It substantially difficult to implement the orientation of the electrode active material film, in the conventional slurry-based electrode production technique of applying and rolling of a slurry. This is because when an active material slurry is applied on a current collector and rolled, and plastic deformation (permanent deformation) of the active material occurs, the orientation of the plastically deformed electrode active material particles should be limited to a direction parallel to an interface direction of the current collector and the active material layer (identical to an in-plane direction of an active material layer surface).
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