25 28 90 carbon black 3 pvdf 7 electrode of 49 cm 2 the carrier film and electrode stack was then calendered following calendering the polypropylene film was peeled away from the electrode depositing a layer of thin lithium foil the mbmb 2528 electrode was then assembled into a pouch cell versus limn 2 o 4 90 carbon black 5 pvdf 5 positive electrode 1m lipf 6 ec dec 1 1 from novolyte was used as the electrolyte baseline cells of the same configuration containing no slmp were assembled for comparison after assembly the pouch cells were tested on a maccor series 4000 cycler the test procedure used was cc 12 ma to 4 3v cv constant voltage to step time equals 10 hours cc constant current discharge at 12 ma to 3 0 v prior to starting the cycle procedure the cells were allowed to rest for 5 hrs to allow time for the pre lithiation process to be completed the table 1 below summarizes baseline and slmp incorporated cell data for example 7 fig1 shows the first cycle voltage curve for representative baseline and slmp incorporated cells 5 mg of slmp was deposited by a styrene butadiene byk slurry in toluene onto celgard u00ae 3501 separator of 64 cm 2 area after solvent evaporation the separator was placed into contact with an mcmb 2528 90 carbon black 3 pvdf 7 electrode of 49 cm 2 the separator and electrode stack was then calendered following calendaring the mcmb 2528 electrode and separator were assembled into a pouch cell versus limn 2 o 4 90 carbon black 5 pvdf 5 positive electrode 1m lipf 6 ec dec 1 1.