The spirit of electrochemical presodiation to elevate the lithium storage performance of Mo-based anode materials was based on their structures. As shown in Fig. 1, 2H-MoS2 with space group of hexagonal P63/mmc, has a layered structure consisting of S-Mo-S sandwich slabs stacked in (002) plane, with Mo occupied the 2c sites and S occupied the 4f sites [24]. Similarly, MoO3 with space group of orthorhombic Pbnm, has a layered structure with Mo occupied 4c sites and O occupied 4c sites [25]. With