To assess the extent of degradation induced by the aging cycles, we applied standardized diagnostic cycles conducted periodically during the cycling experiments to probe the state of the batteries, as commonly done in the literature . Diagnostic cycles are run at Cycle 0 (before any aging cycles), then after 25, 50, 75, and 100 aging cycles to provide higher granularity in diagnostic metric trajectories in the early degradation cycles and then every 100 cycles.