The poor rate capability is a major problem of olivine-structured lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode material in lithium-ion batteries due to its low electric conductivity and sluggish lithium diffusion. Other than the custom strategies to solve this problem like carbon coating and nano-size treatment, we simply mixed LFP with some anion adsorbents, which can store anions from the electrolytes swiftly. The effect of anion adsorbents on the performance of LFP composite electrode has been investigated by cyclic voltammetric tests and the corresponding apparent lithium diffusion coefficients have been measured. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.