Author Manuscript Title: Ending the Chase for a Perfect Binder: Role of Surface Chemistry Variation and its Influence on Silicon Anodes Authors: Gabriel M Veith; Kevin A. Hays; Beth Armstrong This is the author manuscript accepted for publication. It has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. To be cited as: 10.1002/celc.202001066 Link to VoR: https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202001066