Highly ordered porous Cu 2 O film is electrodeposited on copper foil through a self-assembled polystyrene sphere template. Compared with the dense Cu 2 O film and the octahedral Cu 2 O powder, the ordered porous Cu 2 O film exhibits an improved electrochemical cycling stability. The capacity of the porous Cu 2 O film can maintain 336mAhg −1 and 213mAhg −1 after 50 cycles at the rate of 0.1C and 5C, respectively. The reversible capacity holds 63.4% as the discharge–charge rate even increases by 50 times. The enhanced high rate properties of the ordered porous film should be attributed to the sufficient contact surface of Cu 2 O/electrolyte and the short diffusion length of Li + . Moreover, the direct contact between Cu 2 O and current collector and the decreasing inactive interfaces of Cu 2 O/polymer binder are also suggested as being responsible for the enhanced high rate property.