On the other hand, this model assumes that, due to the relatively low amount of added Si particles (10 wt.%), the slurry structure and associated drying (simulated by using graphite, CBD and solvent particles only) are still representative of the ones obtainable by explicitly considering the Si particles as well, which were added only after the drying step. This late addition of Si allows bypassing the full slurry and drying simulations, which would increase the computational cost by an order of magnitude. Of course, the rheological properties of the slurry without Si nanoparticles must not necessarily have to be similar to the ones of a slurry containing a small addition of Si nanoparticles. In fact, evidence suggests that the rheological properties of graphite/Si slurries differ when using μm-sized and nm-sized Si particles . However, Si in dried electrodes is visible by common microscopy techniques such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), which allows reproducing its location ad hoc without the need of following their particle evolution from the slurry to the dried electrode. This is indeed not the case with CBD particles, thus the need of the full workflow to resolve their position .