Negative electrode plate, secondary battery, and apparatus containing the secondary battery

1. A negative electrode plate, comprising:

a negative electrode current collector, comprising an organic support layer and a metal conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the organic support layer;

a negative electrode active material layer, comprising at least a first active material layer, the first active material layer being disposed on the surface of the metal conductive layer away from the organic support layer, and the first active material layer comprising a first active material;

wherein in a first cross section in a thickness direction of the negative electrode plate, the first active material has a particle size a in a direction parallel to the metal conductive layer, the first active material has a particle size b in the thickness direction, and a and b satisfy 0.8≤a/b≤20; and

in a second cross section in the thickness direction of the negative electrode plate, the first active material has a particle size c in the direction parallel to the metal conductive layer, the first active material has a particle size d in the thickness direction, and c and d satisfy 0.8≤c/d≤20; and

the first cross section is parallel to a first direction, the second cross section is parallel to a second direction, and the first cross section intersects with the second cross section;

wherein the negative electrode active material layer further comprises a second active material layer, the second active material layer is disposed on the surface of the first active material layer away from the metal conductive layer, and the second active material layer comprises a second active material; and

the volume average particle size D v 50 1 of the first active material, the volume average particle size D v 50 2 of the second active material, and the Young's modulus E of the negative electrode current collector satisfy:

|D v 50 1 −D v 50 2 |/E≤2, wherein D v 50 1 and D v 50 2 are in μm, and E is in GPa.

2. The negative electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein the negative electrode current collector further satisfies at least one of the following (1) to (3):

(1) the metal conductive layer has a thickness of 30 nm to 3 μm;

(2) the organic support layer has a thickness of 1 μm to 20 μm; and

(3) the negative electrode current collector has a Young's modulus E satisfying 2 GPa≤E≤20 GPa.

3. The negative electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein,

a and b satisfy 0.9≤a/b≤10; and

c and d satisfy 0.9≤c/d≤10.

4. The negative electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein the first active material has a volume average particle size D v 50 1 satisfying 5 μm≤D v 50 1 ≤25 μm.

5. The negative electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein

the first active material comprises a graphite material; and

the second active material comprises artificial graphite.

6. The negative electrode plate according to claim 5 , wherein the second active material has a hardness greater than that of the first active material.

7. The negative electrode plate according to claim 5 , wherein the second active material has a volume average particle size D v 50 2 satisfying 5 μm≤D v 50 2 ≤25 μm.

8. The negative electrode plate according to claim 1 , wherein 0.3≤|D v 50 1 -D v 50 2 //E≤1.25.

9. The negative electrode plate according to claim 5 , wherein the thickness of the first active material layer accounts for 10% to 50% of the total thickness of the negative electrode active material layer.

10. The negative electrode plate according to claim 5 , wherein the negative electrode plate further satisfies at least one of the following (1) to (5):

(1) the first active material has a graphitization degree of 94.8% to 97.0%, and/or the second active material has a graphitization degree of 91.2% to 93.8%;

(2) the first active material has a powder Orientation Index OI value of 3.5 to 3.9, and/or the second active material has a powder Orientation Index OI value of 3.0 to 3.2;

(3) the first active material has a specific surface area of 1.2 m 2 /g to 4 m 2 /g, and/or the second active material has a specific surface area of 1 m 2 /g to 2 m 2 /g;

(4) the first active material layer has a porosity of 23% to 35%, and/or the second active material layer has a porosity of 18% to 30%; and

(5) the negative electrode active material layer has a thickness of 40 μm to 100 μm.

11. A secondary battery, comprising the negative electrode plate according to claim 1 .

12. An apparatus, comprising the secondary battery according to claim 11 .

13. The negative electrode plate according to claim 2 , wherein

(1) the metal conductive layer has the thickness of from 300 nm to 2 μm;

(2) the organic support layer has the thickness of from 2 μm to 8 μm.

14. The negative electrode plate according to claim 3 , wherein,

a and b satisfy 2≤a/b≤4; and

c and d satisfy 1.8≤c/d≤5.

15. The negative electrode plate according to claim 4 , wherein the first active material has the volume average particle size D v 50 1 satisfying 10 μm≤D v 50 1 ≤20 μm.

16. The negative electrode plate according to claim 5 , wherein the graphite material comprises natural graphite.

17. The negative electrode plate according to claim 16 , wherein

the natural graphite has an initial morphology that is one or more of spherical and oval shapes.

18. The negative electrode plate according to claim 7 , wherein the second active material has the volume average particle size D v 50 2 satisfying 10 μm≤D v 50 2 ≤20 μm; and

the volume average particle size D v 50 1 of the first active material and the volume average particle size D v 50 2 of the second active material satisfy: D v 50 1 >D v 50 2 .

19. The negative electrode plate according to claim 9 , wherein the thickness of the first active material layer accounts for 20% to 35% of the total thickness of the negative electrode active material layer.

20. The negative electrode plate according to claim 10 , wherein

the specific surface area of the first active material is greater than that of the second active material; and

the porosity of the first active material layer is greater than the porosity of the second active material layer.