NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY WHICH COMPRISES THE NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL, AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY

Disclosed are: a negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery, which enables the production of one having a smaller irreversible capacity. That is a negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery having a carbon layer formed on a surface of a carbon material as a core, wherein (A) a carbon (002) plane has a plane distance of 3.40 to 3.70 Å (by an XRD measurement), (B) a content ratio of the carbon layer to the carbon material is 0.005 to 0.1, (C) a specific surface area is 0.5 to 10.0 m/g (by a nitrogen adsorption measurement at 77 K), and (D) a specific surface area Y (by carbon dioxide adsorption at 273 K) and a content ratio X of the carbon layer to the carbon material meet the requirement represented by a formula (I): 0 < Y < AX + 2.5 [A = 100].