Sodium ion batteries are considered as one of the most promising energy storage devices as lithium ion batteries due to the natural abundance of sodium. tio 2 is very popular as anode materials for both lithium and sodium ion batteries because of the nontoxicity, safety and great stabilities. However, the low electronic conductivities and inferior sodium ion diffusion make it becoming a great challenge to develop advanced tio 2 anodes. Doping heteroatoms and incorporation of defects are believed to be great ways to improve the electrochemical performance of tio 2 anodes. In this work, commercial tio 2 (P25) nanoparticles was modified by hydrogen and nitrogen high-power plasma resulting in a disordered surface layer formation and nitrogen doping as well. the electrochemical performances of the samples as anode materials for sodium ion batteries was measured and the results indicated that after the hydrogen-nitrogen plasma treatment, H-N-TiO 2 electrode shows a 43.5% of capacity higher than the P-TiO 2 after 400 cycles long-term discharge/charge process, and the samples show a good long cycling stability as well, the Coulombic efficiencies of all samples are nearly 99% after 50 cycles which could be sustained to the end of long cycling. in addition, hydrogen-nitrogen plasma treated tio 2 electrode reached the stable high Coulombic efficiency earlier than the pristine material. High resolution teM images and XpS results indicate that there is a disordered surface layer formed after the plasma treatment, by which defects (oxygen vacancies) and N-doping are also introduced into the crystalline structure. All these contribute to the enhancement of the electrochemical performance. Rechargeable sodium ion batteries (SIBs) have been considered as the competitive alternative to lithium ion batteries because of some special merits, such as environment friendly, low cost and especially abundant alkali element widely distributed on earth 1-3. However, there is a big challenge that the ion radius of Na ions are ~ 70% larger than that of Li ions, so finding proper electrode materials which could provide big interstitial space to accommodate sodium ions and allow reversible and rapid ion insertion/extraction 3 is a challenging topic at the moment. Recently, many efforts have been made to explore advanced anode materials for sodium ion batteries. Firstly, carbonaceous material is an important choice which is very cheap however carbonaceous materials show undesired properties with low capacities and/or poor cycle performance 4. Secondly, Ti-based materials is a promising anode materials for sodium ion batteries, including Na 2 Ti 3 O 7 , Na 0.66 [Li 0.22 Ti 0.78 ]O 2 , Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 , and titanium dioxide (TiO 2) 5. Moreover, other materials based on alloying reactions (such as Sn, Sb, P and their compounds e.g. inter-metallics, oxides, sulfides, and phosphides) 6-10 and conversion reactions (oxides and sulfides, e.g. Fe 2 O 3 ,