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Silicon has been considered a good candidate for replacing the commonly used carbon anodes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to its high specific capacity, which can be up to 11 times higher than that of carbon. However, the desirable advantage that silicon brings to battery performance is currently overshadowed by its stress-induced performance loss and high electronic resistivity. The induced stress arises from two sources, namely, the deposition process (i.e., residual stress) during fabrication and the volume expansion (i.e.,