The invention relates to an electrode and a method for manufacturing the same. The electrode is manufactured by mixing slurry, coating, drying, rolling and cutting to shape, and includes a current collector and an electrode material layer coated on the surface of the current collector. The surface of the electrode material layer is arranged in a peak-valley shape after roughening treatment, and the roughening treatment step of electrode material layer is arranged after any step of drying, rolling or cutting to shape. According to the invention, the specific surface area of the electrode surface is increased by changing the surface morphology of the electrode, so that the electrode has a high specific surface area, the coating amount of an electrode active material can not be reduced, and the absorption rate and absorption amount of electrolyte by the electrode, thereby breaking the rule of a trade-off between rate and capacity and enabling the lithium battery to have both a high capacity density and improved rate performance, so that the lithium battery has high-rate charge and discharge characteristics; and a high coating amount of the electrode active material can better control stability of the prepared lithium battery, without foil leakage risks, thereby greatly reducing the security risks of lithium batteries.