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Abstract Texturing the battery electrode to create low‐tortuosity ordered structures can significantly improve the sluggish mass transport in thick electrodes (areal mass loading>20 mg/cm²) during the energy storage electrochemical reactions. In this work, we presented an efficient and effective method to regulate the electrode structure by creating aligned channels throughout the thickness of the electrode. The method combines acoustic manipulation of particles and nonsolvent induced phase inversion and is highly compatible with a wide range of materials used in various battery chemistries. The textured electrodes show better structural integrity compared to electrodes of similar mass loading made with acoustic patterning only and with conventional solution casting. Compared with electrodes made with phase inversion only, it exhibits lower tortuosity, enhanced ion transport/kinetics, better rate capability and cyclic stability. 

By tuning the composition of the non-solvent bath used in the non-solvent induced phase inversion process for fabricating thick and low-tortuosity battery electrodes, optimal electrochemical performances and compressive modulus were achieved. 

An acoustic particle patterning method generated ordered structures in battery electrodes to facilitate lithium-ion diffusion and charge transport kinetics, allowing superior rate capability and cycling stability over conventional electrodes.