The invention discloses a diaphragm, a secondary battery and an electric device, and belongs to the technical field of batteries, the diaphragm comprises a
polyimide film, the
polyimide film contains a modified element, the modified element comprises an S element, and at least part of the S element exists in the form of-S-S-. The
polyimide film comprises an S element, at least part of the S element exists in the form of-S-S-(
disulfide bond), when the battery is short-circuited or locally overheated to cause the temperature of the diaphragm to be higher than or equal to 120 DEG C, the
disulfide bond is broken by
short circuit or high temperature to form free
sulfur atoms and sulfydryl, and after the temperature is reduced to about 80 DEG C, the
sulfur atom and sulfydryl are separated from each other.
Sulfur atoms are recombined into disulfide bonds through
diffusion to repair cracks or defects, and the disulfide bonds can trigger a fracture-recombination process through heat or an
electric field to drive a macromolecular chain to slide and crosslink, so that the cracks are repaired, the
thermal stability of the diaphragm is effectively improved, the
thermal shrinkage of the diaphragm is reduced, and the
cycling stability of the secondary battery is effectively improved.