Recently, many efforts have been made in order to develop advanced anode materials in lithium ion batteries (LIBs). Particularly, transition-metal oxides, such as TiO2, Fe2O3, CoO and WO3-x, have been intensively investigated as promising anode candidates for LIBs. It has been reported that such materials have the merits as anodes in LIB, such as cheap material cost, high capacity and high material density. 1 Because of intrinsically low electric conductivity of these metal oxides, however, nanocomposite formation with carbon has been tried in order to provide better electrical pathway through carbon phase. 2, 17, 19, 20 Especially, nanocomposites between transient metal oxides and ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC) have become more attractive due to their beneficial characteristics: i) abundant lithium storage sites and fast lithium diffusion in nanosized metal oxides and OMC; ii) facile electrolyte penetration owing to ordered mesopores iii) higher electric conductivity through carbon framework. 2, 17, 19, 20

As a novel metal-oxide anode candidate, molybdenum oxides (MoOx, x= 2-3), which possess a theoretical specific capacity of 840-1100 mAh g–1 based on the mechanism of conversion reaction, have attracted considerable interest as anode material materials in LIBs. 3, 4 However, it has been elucidated that in bulk MoOx electrodes, only addition-type lithium storage reaction happens rather than conversion reaction, which leads to quite limited specific capacity and their intrinsically low electric and ionic conductivity retards their rate performance. 4, 5 Accordingly, nanos