Increasing energy demands have stimulated extensive research on alternative anode materials for lithium ion batteries (LIBs). As a promising eco-friendly energy storage material, SnO2 has attracted great attention due to its high theoretical energy storage capacity . However, the poor electrochemical activity and large volume variation of more than 250% during the course of lithium intercalation or release, hamper their potential practical usage in LIBs . Moreover, SnO2 as a kind of semiconductor would present an increasing electric resistance with decreasing temper- ature. Usually, the conductivity attenuation combined with substantial microstructure change at low temperature, resulting in large interface polarization and performance deterioration, hampers their high-level applications in LIBs [5]. Therefore, it is still urgent to design related strategies to enhance the electro-chemical performance of SnO2-based anodes especially at low temperature.