“…The proposed strategies include (1) decreasing the size of the Si material or lowering the dimensions of the Si material to alleviate the produced mechanical stress during the lithiation process; 8,[13][14][15] (2) developing diverse coatings to consolidate the microstructure of Si species and avoiding the continuous deposition of a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer on the Si surface during the lithiation process; [16][17][18][19][20][21] (3) adding chemical additives in electrolyte to stabilize the SEI layer; [22][23][24][25] and (4) compositing the Si with highly conductive materials. [26][27][28] Despite the remarkable progress, the electrochemical a Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Power Battery and Materials, Faculty of Materials Metallurgy and Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, P. R. China b Faculty of Materials Metallurgy and Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and performance of the Si anode, especially its cycling stability and rate capability, is still unsatisfactory and is far away from its applications in LIBs. Currently, most reports on high performance Si anodes are mainly based on the loosely distributed nanospecies (nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, etc.…”