LiCoO2 is epitaxially grown on SrTiO3 (100) substrates with (104) orientation. Because the LiCoO2 film is grown with its c-axis parallel to four equivalent < 111 > axes of the SrTiO3, the (104)-oriented film exhibits four-domain structure on the SrTiO3 (100) substrate. Introducing off-cut angle to the substrate surface breaks the equivalency between the four (111) axes of the SrTiO3 substrate to induce preferential growth of specific orientation with the c-axis in a descending direction of off-cut surface. Increasing off-cut angle and lowering deposition rate promote the preferential growth, because they facilitate step-flow growth mode, and finally align the c-axes in the domains completely into one < 111 > direction of the SrTiO3 substrate. The LiCoO2 film delivers a discharge capacity of 90 mAh g(-1) at a low discharge rate of 0.01 C, and 25% of capacity is kept even at a high rate of discharge with 100 C. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.