The degree of electrode compression is kept as an extra freedom degree during calendering for further validation of the computational workflow. To verify whether the simulated microstructures are sufficiently representative to undergo qualitative and semi-quantitative tests to find the impact of the calendering on the electrode by having different compression degrees (0 %-30%) shown in Figure . The electrode's effective electrical conductivity (δ) and the geometric tortuosity (τ geo ), shown in Figure and, are two parameters chosen to have a qualitative indicator of the effect of the calendering degree on the electrode electrochemical performance. They are simple observables defined to account for both ionic and electronic properties of the simulated dried (0% compression degree) and calendered (5%-30%) electrodes. The simulations showed no effective electronic pathways along the z axis for 5% compressed electrode microstructure, so we were not able to perform the same calculations.