Developing the advanced electrode materials with large capacity, low cost, high-rate capability and long cycle stability for lithium ion batteries (LIBs), is still a challenge and hot-topic today. Herein, ZnO/N-doped carbon/Cu composites (ZnO/NC/Cu) with different ZnO loading amounts are first synthesized by a simple pseudo-solid-state method only using the copper phthalocyanine as carbon, nitrogen and copper sources. In a typical massive-like structure, ZnO and Cu nanoparticles distribute randomly and are well surrounded by amorphous carbon. Benefiting from the advantages of intrinsic archite...
