ELECTRODE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND SECONDARY CELL

The present invention has an object to provide a lithium secondary battery having excellent battery characteristics and an electrode materializing the battery, by making it easy for an electrolyte solution or a solid electrolyte being an ionic conductor to penetrate between active materials even under a low porosity condition, in a technique for raising the electrode density by making the porosity of the electrode low in order to raise the energy density. The present invention relates to an electrode for a secondary battery comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, a separating layer for spatially separating these electrodes, and an ionic conductor, the electrode comprising a current collector and an active material-containing film on the current collector, wherein a porosity per volume of the active material-containing film is 25% or less; and one or more high-porosity regions where a ratio of a maximum porosity to a minimum porosity by a trend analysis of porosity per area in the film thickness direction of an electrode cross-section is 2.2 or more are present within a range of 500 µm in radius on the electrode plane.