Construction of desired nanoarchitectures with both high power and high rate ability is regarded as a significant step torward industrial applications of rechargeable lithium ion batteries (LIBs) with improved performance. It is well-known that the hard-template route towards nanoarchitectures requires further simplifying the synthetic procedure and lowering the cost of the template itself. Whereas, the newest template-free methodologies, including the special-coordination-structure route and the self-produced template route, show the prospective signs in the coming years. Application of nanoarchitectured electrodes in the study of rechargeable lithium ion batteries has spurred activity in the LIB fields. This Frontier article gives an overview of the recent advances.