The interactions between electrochemical response, elasticity and particle size of a cylindrical, Li-ion battery, graphite electrode particle is studied. First, a potentiostatic study is conducted to demonstrate the role of higher-order stress terms of the chemical potential on the distributions of flux, stresses and concentrations. Then, two cyclic voltammetry experiments are simulated to study the effects of elasticity on the voltammograms. In the first, the electrode is discharged and then charged, while the second, involves the opposite. Effects of elasticity on the anodic (discharging) portion of the voltammograms are more pronounced in the first experiment when compared to the second. The effects of the elasticity also vary with particle size in different ways for the two experiments. In the first, the effects of stresses on the anodic current increases with particle size and then reaches a plateau at around 30 μm. In the second, a maximum effect of elasticity is seen for a particle size of 5 μm. Our study shows that, stresses induced due to diffusion of Li atoms not only affect the mechanical integrity of the electrode particle, but also change the way the particle responds to an applied external potential, thereby affecting its electrochemical response. Interactions of chemistry and mechanics in Li ion battery (LIB) electrodes has gained a lot of interest recently.1-16 Chemical expansions of varying degrees have been observed and quantified in some of the existing electrode materials (graphite) and in prospective electrode materials like Sn, Al and Si.17 The intercalation and de-intercalation of Li ions into and out of the electrode causes local chemical strains in the latter. During the functioning of the LIB, gradients in Li concentration that arise lead to non-uniform strains throughout the electrode particle. When these chemically induced strains are not accommodated by appropriate deformation of the solid, stresses are induced which can result in local failure and degradation in the performance of the electrode and hence the battery. Local changes in Li concentration also alter the mechanical properties of the electrodes. For a recent, detailed review on the effects of stress-diffusion interactions in Li-ion battery materials and the various experimental techniques involved in their quantification please see Ref. 18. The effects of Li diffusion induced stresses (DIS) are well understood and modeled through the framework of thermoelasticity. The changes in concentration are treated in a manner analogous to changes in temperature, and hence chemical strains are introduced into the constitutive equations of elasticity in the form of eigen strains. The elastic equilibrium equations are then solved in order to predict the stresses, displacement and strains. Stresses also affect the thermodynamics of the electrodes. For example, stresses alter the electrochemical potential of Si by 50mV or more.19 Another associated effect is stress induced diffusion (SID), where the elastic stresses developed in the elec...