The invention provides a preparation method of a ternary
cathode material of a
lithium ion battery. The ternary
cathode material is characterized by comprising the following preparation raw materials:21-42 parts of a
nickel salt, 11-21 parts of a
manganese salt, 11-21 parts of a
cobalt salt, 60-150 parts of a precipitant, 10-25 parts of a
lithium salt, 20 parts of deionized water and 12 parts ofethylene glycol. The preparation method comprises the following steps: step 1, adding the
nickel salt, the
manganese salt and the
cobalt salt into the deionized water, performing stirring to form a
salt solution, mixing the precipitant and the
ethylene glycol, performing stirring to form a precipitant solution, mixing the
salt solution and the precipitant solution, performing stirring, performinga
microwave hydrothermal reaction at 160-200 DEG C for 30 min, and after the
reaction product is cooled, taking out the
reaction product to obtain a spindle-shaped precursor; and step 2, mixing the spindle-shaped precursor obtained in the step 1 and the
lithium salt, putting the mixture into a
muffle furnace, performing heat preservation at 800-900 DEG C for 12-24 h, and performing cooling to obtain the ternary
cathode material of the
lithium ion battery. The ternary
cathode material provided by the invention has uniform morphology, a smaller particle size, a
high energy density, excellent cycle performance and short consumed time.