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P-027

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Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) have been hailed as beneficial conductive additive material in Silicon-based anodes due to their unique features such as high electronic conductivity and the ability to mitigate the volume expansion of lithiated Silicon anode-based battery cells. However, both CNTs and Silicon irreversibly consume an enormous amount of Li-Ion inventory to form the SEI-layer, which results in lowering the Coulombic Efficiency, rapid decrease in reversible capacity and shorter battery life. In this work, electrochemical prelithiation is adopted as an enabling approach to eliminate the large capacity loss (almost reduced the first irreversible capacity by ~60%) of MWCNTs-containing Silicon-rich Silicon/Graphite anode. In contrast, a benchmark negative electrode using Carbon black (Super P) demonstrated a reduction of ~47% after prelithiation, which is considerably smaller compared to MWCNTs-based system. Furthermore, cycling performance and the Initial Coulombic Efficiency have been enhanced by the prelithiation process, demonstrating a substantial impact on MCWNTs compared to Super P-based design.