TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The redox shuttle additive comprises elemental sulfur or inorganic, organic or polymer compounds of or containing sulfur. The redox shuttle additive preferably comprises lithium polysulfide(s). The active material comprises oxides or complex oxides of transition metals, sulfides of transition metals, or mixture of transition metal sulfides. The active material is preferably iron disulfide. The electrolyte comprises solution of lithium salts in aprotic dipolar solvent or mixture of aprotic dipolar solvents. The electrolyte solution comprises salt(s) particularly lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6), lithium hexafluoroarsenate (LiAsF6), lithium perchlorate (LiClO4), and/or lithium sulfonylimide trifluoromethane (LiN(CF3SO2)2), other lithium salt; salts of another alkali metal; or a mixture salts of quaternary ammonium bases, sodium potassium salts, halogenides, lithium bromides, and iodides. The lithium salt is present at 0.1 M to concentration of greater than or equal to 90% of saturation concentration of salt in the solvent(s). A concentration of redox shuttle additive in the electrolyte is 0.1-0.5M calculated on basis of atoms of sulfur.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The electrolyte solution comprises solvent(s) particularly tetrahydrofuran, 2-methyltetrahydrofuran, dimethylcarbonate, diethylcarbonate, ethylmethylcarbonate, methyl propylcarbonate, methylpropylpropionate, ethylpropyl propionate, methylacetate, ethylacetate, propylacetate, dimethoxyethane, 1,3-dioxalane, diglyme(2-methoxyethyl ether), tetraglyme, ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, gamma -butyrolactone, sulfolane, or sulfones.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Components: The binder is a polymer particularly polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, polyethylene oxide, alkylated polyethylene oxide, crosslinked polyethylene oxide, polyvinyl ether, polyether grafted polysiloxanes, polymethyl methacrylate, polyvinylidene fluoride, copolymer of polyhexafluoropropylene and polyvinylidene fluoride, polyethyl acrylate, polytetrafluoroethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polyvinyl pyridine, polystyrene, and/or their derivatives. EXAMPLE - A positive electrode made up of 70% manganese dioxide (MnO2), 10% electro-conductive carbon black, and 20% polyethylene oxide (4000000 molecular weight) was prepared. A mixture of dry components was milled for 15-20 minutes. Acetonitryl was added to the mixture as a solvent for the binder. The resulting suspension was then mixed for 15-20 hours in a laboratory stirrer. The solids content of the suspension was 5%. The suspension thus produced was deposited to one side of an 18 mu m thick aluminum foil with an electro conductive carbon coating as a current collector. The carbon coating was dried in ambient conditions for 20 hours. After drying, the electrode was pressed at 500-1000 kg/cm2. The resulting dry cathode layer had a thickness after drying of 28 mu m and after pressing of 21 mu m, and contained 3.07 mg/cm2 of MnO2. The positive electrode was used in a small cell producing electric electrode surface area of 5 cm2. The positive electrode vacuum at 50 degrees C for 5 hours before being installed in the cell. Celgard 3501(RTM: microporous polypropylene) was used as a porous separator. An electrolyte comprising a solution of trifluoromethane sulfonate of lithium in sulfolane (99.8%), was deposited onto the separator at 1 mu l/cm2. A lithium foil was used as a negative electrode. The cell was kept at ambient room conditions for 24 hours, and cycled. Charge and discharge was conducted at 0.1 mA/cm2 with discharge termination at 2.2 V and charge termination at 3.3 V. After the end of cycling the cell was disassembled and the surface of the lithium electrode was studied thoroughly. It was found that the lithium electrode surface was coated with a thin layer of powder-like gray compound. This indicated the formation of lithium dendrites during cycling.