The invention discloses a SiOC
ceramic material used for preparing the
cathode of a
lithium ion battery, a preparation method thereof and a
lithium ion battery prepared from the
ceramic material. The SiOC
ceramic material comprises
silicon,
oxygen and carbon, and the mol ratio of
silicon to
oxygen to carbon is 1: alpha: beta, wherein, alpha is 0.4 to 0.2, beta is 0.4 to 5.0, and alpha plus beta is 0.8 to 7.0. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing
organosilicon polymers with a molecular formula of a(R1R2SiO)x(R3R4SiO2)y(R5R6SiO3)zb, wherein, a and b are terminated functional groups, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are functional groups, at least one of which is
hydrogen groups or alkenyl groups, x is 0.3 to 1, y is 0 to 0.7, z is 0 to 0.5, and x plus y plus z is 1; preparing organic small molecular compounds which comprise active groups that can react with
hydrogen groups,
silanol groups or alkenyl groups; mixing the
organosilicon polymers with the organic small molecular compounds, preparing the two into a
copolymer through crossing and curing, and carrying out
pyrolysis so as to obtain the SiOC ceramic material. The
lithium ion battery provided in the invention has the characteristics of high capacity, good cycle performance and high reversible capacity.