The application relates to the technical field of batteries, in particular to a negative
electrode material, a preparation method thereof and a battery. The negative
electrode material comprises a substrate and a
carbon coating layer coated on at least part of the surface of the substrate; wherein the substrate comprises hard carbon, the hard carbon is a
biomass-based hard carbon material, and the hard carbon contains C elements and O elements, and the
atomic ratio of O and C satisfies O:C=1:20-1:10. The preparation method of the negative
electrode material comprises the following steps: soaking pretreated
biomass material in a
chloride solution,
sintering to obtain a hard carbon precursor; mixing the hard carbon precursor with an acid solution, adding peroxodisulfate, and after mixing, separating and
drying, obtaining a hard carbon material containing an
epoxy group; performing
carbon coating treatment on the hard carbon material containing the
epoxy group to form a
carbon coating layer on at least part of the surface of the hard carbon, and obtaining the negative
electrode material. The application can improve the capacity and kinetic performance of the negative
electrode material, and improve the capacity, initial efficiency and cycle performance of the battery.