Metal sulfide demonstrated sluggish ionic transport kinetics due to the low electronic conductively, resulting larger volume expansion and even pulverize electrode during Li + insertion/ deinsertion. In this study, freestanding SnS nanoflower@carbon nanofiber (SnS@CNF) was prepared by the sol-gel electrospinning of hydrothermal synthesized SnS 2 nanoflower and carbonization. When direct used SnS@CNF as a binder-free negative electrode for LIB, it delivered specific capacity of 564.4 mAh g À 1 @0.3 C after 450 cycles, and high rate capacities of 595, 465, 354, 267, 200, 129, 74, and 484 mAh g À 1 at the current densities of 0.064, 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 0.1 mA g À 1 , respectively. Such excellent electrochemical performance is attributed to the nanostructured conductive CNF network not only can buffer volume expansion and prevents the aggregation of active material, but also improve Li + migration rates during the discharge (4.47 × 10 À 7 cm 2 s À 1 ) and charge (2.73 × 10 À 6 cm 2 s À 1 ) process.