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        "name": "Current-collector corrosion",
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        "definition": "Attack on the foils: aluminium pitting at high potential when the passive film fails, or copper dissolving if the negative electrode is driven above about 3.5 V vs Li/Li⁺ by over-discharge. Both raise resistance and can shed metal into the cell.",
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        "definition": "The electrode at the lower potential, usually graphite on copper foil in a lithium-ion cell. It holds the lithium when the cell is charged and releases it on discharge, and industry calls it the anode.",
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          "title": "Keep the polarity name",
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        "definition": "Loss of electrons by a species. On discharge the negative electrode is oxidised as lithium leaves it as Li⁺, which is why that electrode is called the anode.",
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      "label": "Lithium ion battery degradation: what you need to know",
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        "title": "Lithium ion battery degradation: what you need to know",
        "publisher": "Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP00359C",
        "type": "Review article",
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