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Figure 11. (A) Schematic showing preparation of AMPSi and AMPSi@C. (B) Photograph of an ant nest (scale bar = 20 cm). (C) Schematic of lithiation/delithiation process of ant-nest-like microscale porous Si particles. (D) Time-resolved TEM images depicting the lithiation process of AMPSi@C electrode (scale bar = 200 nm). Reproduced with permission^[51] (Copyright 2019, Nature Publishing Group). (E) Cycling performance of Mp-Si with different surface-engineering treatments. Time-lapse TEM images of lithiation of (F) dense Si and (G) Mp-Si@Si@G microparticles. Reproduced with permission^[132] (Copyright 2019, Elsevier B.V.).