BINDER FOR ELECTRODES OF LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY WHICH USES ELECTRODE PRODUCED USING BINDER FOR ELECTRODES OF LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES

To provide a binder that has high adhesiveness to a collector, does not cause release in press molding, has high flexibility, and is excellent in binding capability and resistance to an electrolytic solution, and to provide a lithium secondary battery that is excellent in charge and discharge characteristics using an electrode produced with the binder. The binder for an electrode used contains a hydrophilic group-containing polyurethane as a water dispersion that contains (A) a polyisocyanate, (B) a compound that has two or more active hydrogen groups, (C) a compound that has one or more active hydrogen groups and one or more hydrophilic groups, and (D) a chain extending agent, or contains an aqueous resin composition containing a polymer of an unsaturated polymerizable monomer that is emulsified with the hydrophilic group-containing polyurethane.