The invention provides a positive active material and a preparation method thereof, a positive
pole piece, a battery and
electric equipment. The positive active material comprises a substrate, the
coating material comprises a compound as shown in a formula II: La [alpha] Zr [beta] M [gamma] M '[
delta] O [epsilon]; wherein M comprises at least one element of Li, Na, Ca, Mg, Ba and Sr, M'comprises at least one element of Al, Ti, Sn, Nb, Ta, W and Mo, alpha is larger than 0 and smaller than or equal to 3, beta is larger than 0 and smaller than or equal to 2, gamma is larger than or equal to 0 and smaller than 0.5,
delta is larger than or equal to 0 and smaller than 0.5, and epsilon is larger than or equal to 5 and smaller than or equal to 10. In an X-
ray diffraction pattern of the
coating material, the half-peak width of a
diffraction peak (222) is FWHM (222), and FWHM (222) is more than or equal to 0.3 and less than or equal to 0.53. Therefore, the
coating material is relatively low in
thermal conductivity, can form physical isolation on the surface of a multi-element material, and can effectively adsorb
active oxygen removed from a high-
lithium-removal-state matrix material, reduce
side reaction between a matrix and an
electrolyte and reduce a heat release
peak value of a positive
electrode active material, so that the
thermal stability and the
cycling stability of a battery are improved, and the service life of the battery is prolonged. The safety performance of the battery is improved.