“…Therefore, nanostructured transition metal oxides can offer a promising carbon alternative to anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Recently, MFe 2 O 4 (M = Co, Zn, Ni, Cu, Mg etc) nanocrystals have been explored as anode materials in lithium-ion batteries with high theoretical capacities of over 1000 mAh g À1 , which is much higher than carbonaceous anode materials [6,7,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Among them, MgFe 2 O 4 has been firstly prepared as anode material for lithium-ion batteries by Sivakumar through high-energy ball milling technique [24].…”